Word: primae
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Chronicle, who cannot abide prima donnas on his staff, was not having...
London's balletomanes were bursting with pride over a local girl who had 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...
Married. Vera Zorina, 29, prima ballerina turned musicomedienne; and Goddard Lieberson, 35, vice president of Columbia Recording Corp.; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
This week the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo wound up its longest run of ballet in Manhattan history. Two reasons for its success: Chief Choreographer George Balanchine. Prima Ballerina Alexandra Danilova, once his wife. Of 24 ballets in the Ballet Russe's Manhattan repertory this season, eight were Balanchine's. The best, Concerto Barocco, consisted of a few hippy girls in black swim suits, against a plain blackdrop, contorting their bodies in strict but living counterpoint to Bach's Double Violin Concerto in D Minor. It had none of the splendiferous sets and costumes, the "story" told...
...horse of the year, chestnut-colored Busher, has none of the foibles common to fillies. She outeats every colt in the stable; far from being a high-strung prima donna, she is a lazy worker who never does anything more than is asked...