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Going Places. At 29, little Nora Kaye is the closest thing ballet has to the theater's Tragedienne Judith Anderson. Her father, Gregory Koreff, onetime Moscow Art Theater actor, fascinated her as a child with his living-room characterizations ("in the Stanislavsky tradition") in the family's East Side apartment. But because her mother wanted her to dance, and because she liked dancing better than school, Nora headed for the Metropolitan...
Opera Ballet School. By the time she was a nimble 15, Nora was a regular member of the Met's corps de ballet...
...blocks up Broadway to kick up her heels in such musicomedies as Virginia, Great Lady and Stars in Your Eyes. When Ballet Theatre started up in 1939, she tagged along to auditions with her roommate. What Choreographer Antony Tudor was doing was just the thing for Actress-Dancer. Nora Kaye: in his emotion-packed ballets she could combine the best she had learned from her actor-father with the best of ballet. With the premiere of Tudor's Pillar of Fire in 1942, Nora came to full flame...
Going Along. Nora now has a new interest in the classical. This week she will try her first Giselle at the Met. Says Nora: "I used to think Giselle was just silly. Now I find her rather sweet and pathetic...
...Nora also has a new fan. Last summer, when Impresario Sol Hurok's secretary asked her to meet another of Hurok's clients, she snorted "A musician? Bah! They're all such egotists." Top-rank, young (29) Violinist Isaac Stern felt the same way about ballerinas, even though he had never paid much attention to ballet, had only seen a part of Les Sylphides once when Hurok had dragged him along. Nora and Isaac, married in November, now think there are exceptions...