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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...
...ballet's experts keeps her from being hailed unreservedly as a ballerina assoluta, a rank in the choric hierarchy attained in recent generations only by Marie Taglioni and the late great Anna Pavlova. Well above a mime dansante (like Irina Baro-nova), immeasurably superior to a soubrette (Zorina's rating), Alicia Markova has attained to the category danseuse noble, and she may get to be a ballerina assoluta yet. She has a combination of flawless classical technique and an ability to project emotion that bowls over even the uninitiates in the audience. Balleto manes may discuss the superb...
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...
Later on, in a benefit show for the Navy, Zorina dances in the snow to one of the best songs of the season. "That Old Black Magic." Hope gets caught in a shower with jealous husband William Bendix. Alan Ladd commits a ten-second murder, Lamour, Goddard, and Lake chant the woes of "A Sweater, A Sarong. And A Peckaboo Rang," MacMurray, Milland, Tone, and Overman revive George Kaufman's classic "If Men Played Cards As Women Do." and Rochester's zoot suit number is stolen by un-billed dancer Katharine Dunham. Bing Crosby is really wasted, however...
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...