Word: pavlova
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slender, waxen-faced woman of 45 lay ill with pleurisy in a hotel room in The Hague. A sedative had been given to spare her pain. Quietly, as if entranced, she spoke to her maid: "Marguerite! My swan costume!" As if she were hearing an unseen orchestra, Anna Pavlova lifted her arms, fluttered her hands. "Play that last measure softly," she murmured. And before the world realized that she was seriously ill the great Russian dancer was dead...
...Pavlova have been able to forget her impersonation of the swan, a creature who first hovered lightly on her toes, typified all Death when she crumpled to the floor in a motionless mound of tarlatan and feathers. Last week at the Regal Theatre in London Pavlova danced again, in a series of cinema films linked together and called The Immortal Swan. Producer was her husband, Victor Dandré, who was releasing the pictures for the first time to raise funds for a Pavlova Memorial Fountain to be executed by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles on a site already approved in London...
...audience sat reverently quiet through the showing of two full-length ballets, eleven solos. Music was played by the London Symphony, conducted by Vladimir Launitz, onetime Russian aviator, who once was Pavlova's musical director. Effects on the screen were sometimes hazy. Many of the pictures had been taken in 1923, some in South America, some in Australia. But it was still possible to marvel at the dancer's incomparable grace, that ethereal quality which made it seem as if she floated through...
...Author Kirstein never knew the great impresario but from the testimony of many of his associates he has been able to paint him as a man with surly grandeur, a magnificent snarl, a staggering, penetrating, shrewd instinct. Diaghilev assembled talent which spoke for the best in music, painting, dancing. Pavlova was with him for a time, but she soon formed her own touring company, so built around her own personality that she succeeded in spite of ragged musical accompaniment, shoddy, second-rate scenery. The Diaghilev company was peerless so long as it had Tamara Karsavina and Nijinsky who, according...
...thickset, moon-faced Russian who travels every year to Europe, observes more new talent, signs more big new conracts than any one man in his risky profession. Solomon ("Sol") Hurok has always had a weakness for Russian perormers. He has managed Efrem Zimbalst, Mischa Elman, Feodor Chaliapin, Anna Pavlova. He spent $75,000 to import the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934 et seq.). Last week in Manhattan Manager Hurok introduced still more Russians: 19 choristers from Paris who call themselves the Moscow Cathedral Choir...