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...Paris Opéra Ballet announced plans to move the body of Dancer Waslaw Nijinsky from London, where he died last year, and give it a final place of honor in the Montmartre Cemetery next to the grave of Auguste Vestris, France's ballet idol at the end of the 18th Century...
...rare occasions when she was not booked for one of the formal parties given in her honor by various kings, presidents, generals and ambassadors, Margaret Truman skipped the Paris Opèra, went off for an evening of nightclubbing-with two Secret Service men, a French Surete inspector, and the usual photographers and reporters as escorts. After spending most of her time dodging the photographers, she decided to call it a night. For Paris, it had been a pretty dull one; but she was accomplishing a mission. "This pleasant, unaffected young woman," said London's Daily Express, "endears...
Arriving at the Paris Opéra for the French premiere of Tales of Hoffmann, French Ballerina Ludmilla Tcherina, one of the film's starring dancers, struck some new fashion notes: a diamond bauble pasted on her forehead, a small blue feather dove on each of her bared shoulders...
Bizet: Carmen (Raoul Jobin, tenor; Solange Michel, soprano; Michel Dens, baritone; Marthe Angelici, soprano, and others; chorus and orchestra of the Paris Opéra-Comique, with André Cluytens conducting; Columbia, 6 sides LP). Soprano Michel lacks the fire to make the title role burn as it should, but the performance as a whole is excellent and so is the recording...
...inaugurated the village, he praised it so highly that tears welled in Evita's eyes. The strapping President stopped his speech to kiss her. "These two tears," he said, "point to the great merit in this work, namely, human emotion." Emotion unquestionably moves Senñra Perón. But it is equally true that ( she is one of the country's biggest property holders, the boss of six Buenos Aires newspapers, the radio station El Mundo, and at least two manufacturing plants. It is commonly believed in Buenos Aires that these properties were acquired as "investments...