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...Ballet production of Swan Lake in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium last week, and wrote: "From the muffled whispers in the row behind me, I gathered that four elderly ladies, sitting together, were experts on the whole performance. They chatted knowingly about Ninette de Valois' discovery of Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, discussed the merits of Karsavina, Pavlova, Markova, noted the fact that Danseur Michael Somes had spent four years in the British army during the war. During the intermission, I turned round, curious to see these well-informed critics. They looked as if they might have been schoolteachers, and they...
Girls running for student council representative are: Ingelberg Blass, Nancl Boyd, Anne Jeffrey, Ruth Joseph, jean Ross, Vera Servi, Margot Sproul, Rowena Strauss, Evelyn Thompson, and Phyllis Watt...
After bowing through innumerable curtain calls, Sadler's Wells Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn hurried backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House to accept the greetings of British delegate to the U.N. Sir Gladwyn Jebb. Convinced that her countryman's superlative performance at Lake Success deserved something special too, the dancer personally fitted a dark red rose into Sir Gladwyn's lapel...
...soon." She had impressive evidence to the contrary. When the golden curtain at the Met fell on the ballet's brilliant opening-night performance of Swan Lake this week, the packed house and the critics seemed unanimous. Sadler's Wells with its faun-eyed Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, its crack corps de ballet and its handsome staging, was every bit as good as remembered...
...last week, they felt all right. British balletomanes, out in force, found George Balanchine's New York City Ballet Company "not quite what we're used to," and his dancers "more athletic and less poetic." But, nonetheless, determined to reciprocate the sellout welcome that the U.S. gave Margot Fonteyn and the rest of Britain's Sadler's Wells Company (TIME, Nov. 14), they produced a heart-warming welcoming...