Word: ulanova
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...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 Ulanova has superseded Semyonovna who was recently snapped up by potent Comrade Leo M. Karakhan, Soviet Ambassador to Turkey.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...