Word: diaghilev
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Though the company is new to the U.S., American audiences have long been familiar with its graduates. In pre-Bolshevik days, the Kirov was St. Petersburg's Maryinsky company, fountainhead of Western ballet. In graceful profusion, it produced the dancers Nijinsky and Pavlova, the choreographer Fokine, the impresario Diaghilev. Its demanding, perfectionist teachers seeded the world's great troupes with their students: Galina Ulanova went on from St. Petersburg to her triumphs with Moscow's Bolshoi, and Choreographer George Balanchine used his Maryinsky training to reshape the entire U.S. ballet scene...
...lively writing flair, she won Vogue's Prix de Paris in competition with 1,280 other girls. (Her answer to one question-which three eminent men of the past she would prefer to meet?-gives another small clue to her character. She picked Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde and Diaghilev.) But Jackie regretfully declined the prize-a return trip to Paris-when her mother objected. There was a brief engagement to John Husted Jr., a socially registered Manhattan broker, but, both agree, it was never really serious...