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...Yare Vera Zorina, 26, born Eva Brigitta Hartwig in Kristiansand, Norway, became a U.S. citizen. "This is what I've waited for all my life," said...
From Hollywood he had imported Igor Stravinsky to conduct his own Petrouchka, Vera Zorina to glamorize a new ballet called Helen of Troy. But the real balleto manes, who study pirouettes and entre chats as devoutly as a prizefight fan studies left hooks, knew that the season was no great shakes esthetically. They went to Sol Hurok's ballet very largely for one little reason. That reason was a five-foot-two-inch dancer named Alicia Markova...
...Vera Bragg's Gold Shower, clocked at 1:35 3/5 for a mile (only one second over Count Fleet's record) and 2:04 for the Derby distance of a mile-and-a-quarter during a workout at Belmont last week...
Milstein's talk is mostly about war or politics. He reads biography and history, plays a deadly game of gin rummy. Unmarried, he spends most of his time with a coterie of very close friends: Pianist Horowitz, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, Choregrapher George Balanchine and his dancing wife Vera Zorina, Arturo Toscanini and Elsa Maxwell. He dislikes popular music and makes no bones about...
High spots: Paulette Goddard, Dorothy Lamour and Veronica Lake sing, in appropriate costume, a little number called A Sweater, A Sarong and a Peek-a-Boo-Bang; Rochester (in a zoot suit) and Dancer Katherine Dunham give out with a strutting Sharp As a Tack; Vera Zorina does a veil dance; Betty Hutton, during a wild, bruising ride in a jeep, sings a ditty known as I'm Doin' It for Defense; a shapely crew of aircraft workers sing and dance a number called On the Swing Shift. Bob Hope, closeted with an angry man in a shower...