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Three years ago, Manager Bing had hired Dancer Janet Collins to be his prima ballerina, making her the first Negro artist on the Met roster in any capacity. He expects to employ other Negro singers if they "are right for the roles." Said Marian Anderson, as usual referring to herself with the modest impersonal pronoun: "Now one is speechless." Would her place in Met history be comparable to Jackie Robinson's in baseball? "One hopes so," she said. "It would be a matter of pride...
Divorced. By Maria Tallchief, 29, part-Indian prima ballerina of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo: second husband Emourza Natirboff, 30 (first: Ballet Director George Balanchine), private pilot; after two years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
Presence Denied. By contrast to Knowland's troubles with senatorial prima donnas and his relative lack of experience (nine years in the Senate), Joe Martin has been a Congressman for 29 years and commands great respect from the House's feudal barons, the committee chairmen. By his gift for teamwork, his influence over chairmen, his control of the traffic-regulating Rules Committee, and by the tightness of the House's rules, Joe Martin has kept his House in order...
...proclaimed the start of worldwide revolution. Before it became Bolshevik headquarters, that villa had been occupied by Mathilde Kchessinska, once Czar Nicholas II's great & good friend, certainly one of the best dancers of all time and one of two ever to bear the lofty title of prima ballerina assoluta.* In Berlin last week, another ballerina was given that title by sentimental oldtimers: Galina Ulanova, 44, the darling of the Soviet Ballet...
...naive enough to say as late as 1939: "I hate Communism, but it is founded on belief in the control of Government, including the economic system, by the people themselves. It is the very antithesis of Nazism." Many a liberal "prima donna" thought the same. Ickes, who died in 1952, lived long enough to learn otherwise...