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...Russian dancer: Violetta Elvin, but she is married to a Briton who brought her out of Moscow after World War II. The two stars with the brightest shine were born in Surrey and Fifeshire: dark-haired Margot Fonteyn (TIME, April 15, 1946) and red-haired Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer. The leading male dancer, Robert Helpmann, is somewhat of a foreigner-from Australia. Chief Choreographer Frederick (Cinderella, Facade) Ashton was born in Ecuador of British parents. Some of the ballets had unmistakably British subjects, among them The Rake's Progress (De Valois) and Hamlet (Robert Helpmann...
...great big tack in its bourbon barrel. Its state officials swarmed angrily on Washington, where the Bureau of Internal Revenue was deciding a momentous question: Is whisky stored in used casks just as good as whisky stored, Kentucky-fashion, in new charred white oak casks? Up rose Guy C. Shearer, administrator of Kentucky's liquor board. "Kentucky," cried he, "is a bourbon state . . . steeped in the knowledge and in the tradition of the production of whisky, both legal . . . and illegal." The Treasury, hinted Shearer, had better not tell Kentucky how whisky should be made...
...most powerful voice in Hollywood. The studio splurged on giving its films a plushy elegance and a high gloss. If some happened to be mediocre entertainment, they were well insured at the box office with such names as Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. During the '30's, while older film empires tottered, M-G-M saw to it that its parent, Loew's Inc., never skipped a dividend. For his pains, L.B. got 10% of the studio profits-a deal that made him a longtime fixture atop the annual...
...haired Ballerina-Cinemactress Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes) hustled offstage after a concert in Edinburgh and paid her respects to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh without stopping to change costume. She thus demonstrated beautifully that all curtseys to royalty should be executed by ballerinas in short ballet skirts...
Britain's Moira Shearer, red-haired prima ballerina of the movie The Red Shoes (TIME, Oct. 25), panned her own film as bad ballet. In a lecture to London's Royal Academy of Dancing, she said that making the picture had been a "mistake," and that furthermore, the display advertising made her look like "Jane Russell in black tights...