Word: markova
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French liberation. She had sent out the invitations in early August, while the Allies were still in Normandy. Said she: "I just had a hunch-anyway, France is very close to my heart. Some of my best parties were given there." Among the entertainers: Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Ballerina Alicia Markova, Funnyman Danny Kaye, Songstress Judy Garland. Cinemactor Charles Boyer (reciting La Marseillaise), Elsa herself (playing the Star-Spangled Banner). Among the guests: blue-haired Internationalist Lady Mendl, red-haired Greer Garson, black-haired Authoress Anita Loos, cigar-ash-grey-color haired Evalyn Walsh McLean (with her Hope diamond...
...Some of the best-known: Tamara Toumanova (RKO's Days of Glory), Joan McCracken (Oklahoma!), Sono Osato (One Touch of Venus), Irina Baronova (Follow the Girls), Alicia Markova, signed for a Broadway debut in Billy Rose's Seven Lively Arts...
...Alicia Markova is, by practically unanimous consensus, the greatest ballerina . alive. Only the cautious conservatism of ballet's experts keeps her from being hailed unreservedly as a ballerina assoluta, a rank in the choric hierarchy attained in recent generations only by Marie Taglioni and the late great Anna Pavlova. Well above a mime dansante (like Irina Baro-nova), immeasurably superior to a soubrette (Zorina's rating), Alicia Markova has attained to the category danseuse noble, and she may get to be a ballerina assoluta yet. She has a combination of flawless classical technique and an ability to project...
After three years of methodical study Lillian was picked by the Ballet Russe's late great Impresario Sergei Diaghilev for the title role in Nightingale. Youngest ballerina in the history of Diaghilev's troupe, 13-year-old Lillian Marks became Alicia Markova, with a special permit from the London County Council exempting her from regular school classes. For 14 years she toured Europe and, as war approached, moved...
Bedtime Earned. Markova earns around $350 a week, wears out three pairs of ballet slippers doing it. Though a danseuse noble, she keeps on studying with the enthusiasm of a tyro. In Manhattan she arrives every morning at 10:30 at the studio of her trainer, a Svengalian Italian ballet master named Vincenzo Celli. He ruthlessly analyzes her shortcomings, puts her through an hour's workout that would wilt a professional athlete. By noon she is on the Metropolitan stage, dressed in tights and a black velvet tunic, ready for hours of rehearsal. With scarcely time...