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Outside the Iron Curtain, the dancing genius of slender, 41-year-old Galina Ulanova was mainly legend. She had danced publicly only in the Soviet Union, had rarely traveled outside its borders. Last week, for the first time, a representative Western European audience had a chance to see Ulanova dance in a concert performance at Florence. The general verdict: she is the world's best...
Ballet has always been the center of Ulanova's existence. Her parents, members of the ballet at St. Petersburg's famed Mariinsky Theater, began training her as a child. She made her first public appearance when she was eight. At 18, she completed her formal training, began as a soloist, and over the years danced her supple way to stardom in Leningrad and at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, where she has been a top-ranking ballerina for six years. She has become famous for her roles in Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet...
...diplomats' salaries. Sick in Philadelphia was U. S. Ambassador to Russia William Christian Bullitt ($14,875), but in Moscow the wife of Chargé d'Affaires John C. Wiley ($7,310) lent her patronage, as did French Ambassador Charles Alphand (648,000 francs) to a ballet by Ulanova, the newest "Soviet Pavlova," who is an appetizing* 23-year-old. With the Soviet Pavlova danced a new "Soviet Nijinsky" named Chebukian whose Communist admirers boast that "his jumps are even better than those by the great man who today lives in a world of mental darkness in Switzerland...
...Joseph Stalin, high Communist Comrades and certain Ambassadors in Moscow continue the Imperial tradition that a Russian ballerina is always snapped up as somebody's wife or mistress. Ulanova has superseded Semyonovna who was recently snapped up by potent Comrade Leo M. Karakhan, Soviet Ambassador to Turkey. Three days before, in her last appearance in Russian ballet last week, Mrs. Karakhan slipped, fell, announced herself mildly hurt. She generously applauded her successor Ulanova from...