Word: albertina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prize performer at the Stadium was a onetime Fokine pupil named Albertina Vitak. She danced "Zobeide," the part in Scheherazade originally written for Ida Rubinstein. Rubinstein, never a great dancer, was never able to dance the whole ballet. Olive-skinned Albertina Vitak with smooth ease cringed, skipped, loved, pleaded from the first to the final...
Born of Czech parents in Chicago 27 years ago, she took her first dancing lesson when she was 12. She danced in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1922, in This Year of Grace (1928). Two months of Hollywood under harddriving, gum-chewing Albertina Rasch were followed by a two-year break down. She is married to William R. Kaelin who is in the treasurer's office of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. She hates noise and night clubs, practices her dances an hour a day even when...
...gestures. Then he bobbed ebulliently over his orchestra, resembling greatly a Roman emperor, although illness last spring had reduced his weight from 240 lb. to 200 Ib. From night to night thereafter he presided over such various Stadium doings as four all-Russian programs, the Hall Johnson Choir, the Albertina Rasch dancers, an all-Gershwin concert?all with the practiced versatility which has made him, if not the most exciting of maestros, a thoroughly dependable musician, one to be envied by many another less sure of his bread & butter...
...German comedy, then it was set to music, now it has been translated, generally revamped with lyrics by one who can write them almost as well as Lorenz Hart: Edward Eliscu. For their production the Brothers Shubert have retained the services of a number of comely girls, some Albertina Rasch dancers with wooly heads, and Queenie Smith. Ingenuous, flaxen-haired Miss Smith is the waif who insinuates herself into people's homes, makes a livelihood from the food, drink, tips they give her. A Little Racketeer is concerned with one instance in which this cozzening does not come off quite...
...Oscar Shaw & Harriette Lake sing a silly song ("Lease in My Heart") so well that it will probably become a minor hit. (Two nights after the play opened "As Time Goes By" was a major hit in Manhattan nightclubs.) Flexible little Ann Pennington dances as well as ever; the Albertina Rasch Girls give one good number, one poor one (pseudo-bolero). Funniest number: Thomas Harty in a crazy, drunken dance...