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...Little White Father of ballet in America. Last spring Miss Chase canceled her contract with Hurok and took her troupe to London, where they packed Covent Garden for two months. Thereupon Manager Hurok imported the Russian troupe from South America and bolstered it up with the peerless Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks of London) and other favorites. Then the two companies booked parallel autumn seasons, and the battle...
...made good. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express boasted that the 26-year-old prima ballerina of the Sadler's Wells Ballet was "greater than Pavlova." Slim-limbed Margot Fonteyn was the hottest thing in English ballet since London-born Alice Marks became the great Alicia Markova...
...judge by last year's furore over Ballerina Alicia Markova, she was the only occupant of ballet's top drawer. Last week the other occupant was getting some of her due. Crowds jammed Manhattan's City Center to see Alexandra Danilova, last of Diaghilev's prima ballerinas, as the Street Dancer in Le Beau Danube and the Queen in Swan Lake...
...Kind." Though Danilova has settled in the U.S., her most enthusiastic public is in London, the home of sad-faced Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks), her rival queen of ballet. The two danseuses nobles profess the deepest friendship, ever since the day in 1928 when Diaghilev introduced 14-year-old Alice, a promising member of the corps de ballet, to 24-year-old Danilova, the prima ballerina. But each recollects the occasion with a fine underline of feminine malice. Markova considered Danilova as "very handsome, plump. . . ." Danilova remembers Markova as "very thin, very tiny . . . I try to be kind...
After Impresario Diaghilev's death, the Ballet Russe was taken over by an ex-Cossack, Colonel Wassily de Basil, has since split into a number of pieces, each claiming to be the truest chip off the old block. Markova eventually became No. 1 ballerina of the heavily subsidized, well-promoted Ballet Theatre. Danilova has spent seven years as queen bee of a company called the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, which has a ballet corps well drilled in ex-Husband Balanchine's intricate geometric designs but is woefully short of top dancers...