Word: swanning
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...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...
...Dying Swan. At this point, two policemen appeared. They cornered the girl behind the first violins. Just before they led her off, she had a last moment of triumph, posing with her legs crossed and her arms wrung together like a ballerina in the final throes of the dying swan...
...lowly soap opera this week enlisted the services of a superexpensive fictioneer. Kathleen Norris, with 30-odd years of highly paid slick-paper romancing behind her, took over the job of grinding out Swan Soap's Bright Horizon (CBS, Mon.-Fri., 11:30-11:45 a.m. E.W.T...
...grande dame of magazine heart-tuggers had never paid much attention to the radio until last summer, when Novelist Husband Charles (Brass, Bread, Salt) became ill and had a spell of enforced listening. When Swan wanted a new writer for its 3½-year-old forenoon romance, indefatigable Mrs. Norris, 64, jumped at the chance to "start a new line." She found it easy work: "In magazines you have to fill in with long, luxurious descriptions...
Says Veteran Norris of soap operas in general: "I feel they are reaching the very heart of American women . . . and that's where I want to be." To get her there, Swan Soap will give her $750 a week for the first 13 weeks, $850 for the next 13, $1,000 a week thereafter...