Word: ballerina
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since then she has been a Ziegfeld ballerina, won first prize in a Metropolitan art school competition, doubled for Cinemactress Vilma Banky, spent two years in Hollywood and opened her own ballet school...
...Woods, Ill. on the high bluff overlooking Lake Michigan is an oblong dwelling, severe and clean as a pursuit plane. Pullman Co. cooperated in the fabrication of its steel walls, Container Corp. in the development of its insulation. It is occupied by Ruth Page, able modernistic opera and concert ballerina. Dancer Page's husband is able Lawyer Thomas H. Fisher, son of Walter L. Fisher who served as President Taft's Secretary of the Interior. Dancer Page's brother-in-law is tall, yellow-haired Howard T. Fisher, architect, who with another lawyer-brother Arthur, conceived General...
Among the instruments, nuts and nudes on view last week were portraits of Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. Painters Andre Derain, Joseph Stella. Pablo Picasso, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, Negrophile Nancy Cunard, Torch-Singer Yvonne George, Cinemactress Lois Moran (when she was a child ballerina in the Paris opera). Also exhibited were views of assorted sections of his favorite model, Miss Lee Miller, known as "Lee-Girl" to her intimates, widely celebrated as the possessor of the most beautiful navel in Paris. She too is a photographer, has taken many pictures...
...Metropolitan's conservative ballet appears barelegged. Jeritza is gorgeous in a black & gold court costume, magnificently casual as she steps up to the sacred prompter's box and uses it like a brass rail. Neatest tricks: a high dive by the big soprano, relaxed as any trained ballerina, straight into the arms of Tenor Marek Windheim and Baritone Louis D'Angelo; a shooting exhibition by Assistant Conductor Carlo Edwards who borrowed a shotgun from a neighboring speak-easy after the show, potted some 30 balloons which had escaped during a carnival scene...
...Sleeping Beauty danced in a St. Petersburg theatre. Pavlova instantly fancied herself as the heroine. She wanted to be a dancer but the Imperial Ballet school would not accept children under ten. She studied by herself for two years, then entered the school. At 16 she was prima ballerina at the Imperial Opera. Her U. S. debut was at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in 1910. The performance began at 11:00 p. m. The audience kept her dancing and bowing for two hours. Later with her own company she produced many elaborate ballets but most memorable was her simple...