Word: toumanova
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among others, Danilova, Toumanova, Baronova and the late great Pavlova have done all right in ballet, though married...
Since its U.S. arrival, the "Russian ballet" has broken into a number of pieces, some of them put back together under curiously similar names. Ballerinas like Tamara Toumanova (see cut) were lured away by Hollywood. The latest of the companies recently broke with Hurok because its 40 dancers wanted to be known under their own name, Ballet Theatre, while Hurok insisted it was more glamorous to bill them as Russian...
...Some of the best-known: Tamara Toumanova (RKO's Days of Glory), Joan McCracken (Oklahoma!), Sono Osato (One Touch of Venus), Irina Baronova (Follow the Girls), Alicia Markova, signed for a Broadway debut in Billy Rose's Seven Lively Arts...
...monopoly on the spins and leaps that bring in the money. As usual he has two ballet troupes, but-because of ballet's tendency to behave like a slap-happy amoeba-the troupes are different this year. In the finely trained Massine ballet are the most glamorous (Tamara Toumanova) and the most technically accomplished (Alexandra Danilova) of ballerinas, as well as three of the fleetest male dancers (Frederic Franklin, Igor Youskevitch, Andre Eglevsky...
...score Boston debutantes, Faculty literati, officers of the CRIMSON and Lampoon, and the old intelligensia will welcome the stage celebrities. We gather from Mlles Baronova, Toumanova, and Riabouchinska, last year's featured guests, that the Bow Street Palace is just like "a little bit of New Russia...