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...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...
...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 to her." Queenly Danilova, who has some of the manners of a grande dame, has only scorn...
Failure & Success. "She effaces the memory of stouter prima donnas," wrote one critic during Maggie Teyte's barnstorming years with the Chicago Opera, the Boston and La Scala Opera Companies. Her favorite roles as Melisande in Pelleas and Melisande, Hansel in Hansel und Gretel, set off her charms to best advantage. Photographs of Maggie Teyte in knickers and sleek satin gowns with gold slippers were treasured items in the dens of U.S. dudes. Women crowded counters for "Maggie Teyte Perfume." But when she failed to snare a Metropolitan contract, Maggie Teyte shrewdly decided that her clear-toned, brilliantly controlled...
...banks that the price of gold would be raised on the 30th, March 29 being a bank holiday. When the returns on the sale of gold on March 28 came in. Premier Soong promptly noticed that the figure was double the average of preceding days. This was prima facie evidence of a leak...
Helen Traubel, Brünnhildean prima donna, was presented with a seven-year-old white stallion, White Ghost, by Circus Czar Robert Ringling, promptly cast him as "Grane" in the Metropolitan Opera's Götterdämmerung. The horse, a professional dancer, found nothing in Wagner to make him kick up his heels...