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...Producers' Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Cinderella, the Prokofiev ballet danced by Margot Fonteyn and Britain's Royal Ballet (color...
...sense, the casting of Ballerina Beriosova as the female lead was more interesting than either plot or music, for it was further indication that she is the heiress presumptive to Margot Fonteyn as the company's prima ballerina. Born in Lithuania, Svetlana trained in New York and Paris, joined Sadler's Wells in 1950. With the retirement of Dancer Violetta Elvin (to marry for the third time), Beriosova stepped into more and more of Fonteyn's roles. More enthusiastically than ever, the critics applauded her lithe, leggy build, her cool, fluid movements, which are reminiscent...
...MARGOT MALLARY...
...spite of her 46 years. Most critics were ecstatic. The Times critic described her as "now like a flame on the ground, now like a flame leaping in the air." Wrote the News Chronicle: "Her arms and hands raised in flight are sheer poetry." Sadler's Wells' Margot Fonteyn, whom many rate the West's greatest ballerina, was moved to tears of admiration. Said she: "This is magical. Now we know what we've been missing. I cannot even begin to discuss the dancing of Ulanova because she is something so magnificent I cannot even...
...Nobody tried to talk us out of entering," reported Margot Dannes '57, a finalist in 1953. "But one of the deans did say to me, 'I'm surprised to see you in this.' I don't think it entailed any trouble and it was a lot of fun," she says...