Word: upping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tiaras & Tutus. Five weeks ago, when the Sadler's Wells company of 65 bundled into two Constellations bound for New York the dancers were weighed down with uncertainty. It was costing $50,000 to bring them on their first visit to the U.S.-a place where ballet, while spreading...
Child with a Future. Margaret Hookham studied in London until she was eight. Her life was little different from that of most well-brought-up, middle-class English girls, except that she was allowed to spend as much time dancing as she liked, and had a governess to tutor her...
When Margaret (having changed her first name to Margot) made her London debut at 14 as one of the 32 snowflakes in The Nutcracker, more experienced Sadler's Wellsians laughed at the serious little girl who spent half an hour in the wings, warming up for a five-minute...
Leg In a Cast. She got a chance to warm up. After her 16th birthday, she took over Markova's role in Ashton's Les Rendezvous. Already, for the conservative Morning Post, she had "some of that intoxicating quality always associated with the great dancers." After her first...
Once in a Blue Moon. Among her closest friends are Helpmann, Ashton, Dancer Pamela May, the U.S. Ballet Theatre's Nora Kaye and Les Ballets de Paris' Roland Petit (TIME, Oct. 17). With such people Margot enjoys after-theater suppers or whipping up a home-cooked meal and...