Word: svetlana
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...self-effacing partner, has developed into a fine danseur noble. And Brian Shaw, with his soaring leaps and flickering feet, is a dancer who can hold his own in any company. Some of the most exciting dancing is provided by the company's newest ballerina, leggy young (22) Svetlana Beriosova. She is less technically accomplished than some of the older soloists, but last week, dancing Fonteyn's role of Princess Aurora for only the fifth time, she showed the special quality that can transform a dance from a series of steps into a magical whole...
...cream for nourishing the skin" sold fast at 50? ; so did "Cream Metamorphic" for improving the complexion. There was "White Nights Face Cream" for 80?, "Festival Face Powder" for $1.95, perfumes called "Spirit of Red Moscow," "Fisherman's Fairy Tale" and "Fly Away." (One old favorite notably missing: "Svetlana's Breath," named in honor of Stalin's only daughter.) Some, like "Jubilee of the Red Army" ($12), came in delicate glass flacons. A children's set containing tooth paste and powder, soap and toothbrush cost $2.70 and sold well. Most expensive gift package: a "Golden Star...
...Manhattan's packed Metropolitan Opera House. Famed Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, fully recovered from a six months' bout with the aftereffects of diphtheria, headed the cast again, and among the lesser stars were Violetta Elvin, Nadia Nerina, Rowena Jackson, Michael Somes and a promising newcomer to the troupe, Svetlana Beriosova. Opening-night number: a full-length version of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, with sparkling new costumes and scenery and changes in the choreography which lengthened the 58-year-old masterpiece to a full four acts...
...party's will was Stalin's, and in the eleven turbulent years that he served as Premier (1930-41), Molotov was Stalin's hammer. He forced through the first two Five-Year Plans. Not long after Molotov's pretty, pigtailed daughter Svetlana had learned to talk, she innocently laid bare the secret of her father's success. "Mother works," she pouted. "Father doesn't work. He just walks in the Kremlin with Stalin...
...immediate family" was summoned -that apparently included son Vasily, 32, lieutenant general of the air force, and daughter Svetlana, 30. No mention was made of Stalin's third wife, Roza, sister of his longtime comrade Lazar Kaganovich. The gasping old man never awoke to say goodbye. At 9:50 o'clock that night, as a wintry wind howled past Kremlin battlements built by the Czars, he died...