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Directed by Yurek Bogayevicz...
However, Anna gives this old premise some unusual new twists. Notably, Writer Agnieszka Holland and Director Yurek Bogayevicz decide that the aging star's decline is more interesting than either her protege's success or potential bitchiness between the two of them Young Krystyna (Paulina Porizkova) worships Anna (Sally Kirkland) even after she has eclipsed Anna, who in turn manifests no jealousy or ill will toward Krystyna, at least not until near the end of the film. Yet Anna's decay is inexorable, pathetic and real, and is correctly the film's focus...
Glossy-haired, 46-year-old Dancer-Choreographer Massine, a veteran of at least six richly endowed ballet companies, knows where the money goes. Instead of the orthodox company of 30 or 40, he has just six capable dancers - Irina Baronova, Andre Eglevsky, Rosella Hightower, Yurek Lazowsky, Kathryn Lee, Anna Istomina -trained to perform in quick succession the twelve to 16 short ballets he will crowd into each program. In a pre-tour show at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week, the Highlights company danced against a black backdrop; in Montreal, where the audience surrounded the platform, the decor consisted...
...Aurora's Wedding, all from the Diaghilev repertory. Settings were by Picasso, Bakst and Benois. all Diaghilev artists. First night cheers went to the youthful ballerinas, Irina Baronova, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Tamara Toumanova. Leonide Massine, the maitre de ballet, was still the surest-footed dancer. David Lichine and Yurek Shavelevsky made the most sensational leaps. After twelve days in Manhattan, the troupe takes to the road again, visits no cities, gives 212 performances in the U. S. and Canada...
...year details of the story have been leaking out (TIME, Nov. 19). Baron George ("Yurek") Sosnowski is an extremely handsome young Pole who served gallantly in the Austrian Army, loves women, excitement. Deeply infatuated with him was the beautiful Baroness Benita von Berg, a blonde whose first husband was Richard von Falkenhayn, son of the late great General von Falkenhayn. Berlin society knew that it was to escape the influence of Polish Baron Sosnowski that beauteous, divorced Benita married stolid Baron von Berg. Curiously, all four remained friendly, all went to the same parties. Sosnowski's parties were enough...
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