Word: fonteyne
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...week, they felt all right. British balletomanes, out in force, found George Balanchine's New York City Ballet Company "not quite what we're used to," and his dancers "more athletic and less poetic." But, nonetheless, determined to reciprocate the sellout welcome that the U.S. gave Margot Fonteyn and the rest of Britain's Sadler's Wells Company (TIME, Nov. 14), they produced a heart-warming welcoming...
Help from the Men. Since beautiful Prima Ballerina Margot Lander retired in February, the Royal Ballet has sorely missed a female dancer who could rival England's Margot Fonteyn (TIME, Nov. 14). And the company as a whole could not quite match the glittering polish and clockwork precision drilled into the Sadler's Wells troupe. But the Danes proved to be second to none in their male stars...
Congratulations on the splendid cover and story on Margot Fonteyn [TiME, Nov. 14]. Just for the record, I would like to know if she is the first ballerina thus treated by TIME...
...home, she is the kind of girl of whom one friend says: "She could fill Covent Garden every night in the week for a year, but she could walk through Picadilly Circus with a neon light around her head without one person saying, "There goes Margot Fonteyn.' " She has a flat just a block from Covent Garden, filled with period furniture ("mixed") and porcelain cats, spends much of her free time with her mother, a striking, silver-haired woman whom Margot and her friends have nicknamed "The Black Queen...
...unpredictable. On one of her rare appearances without the company, she told Helpmann she would positively not make a speech at the supper given in her honor after a command performance in Copenhagen. After Helpmann had tactfully told the guests that "Miss Fonteyn is too moved to speak," she stood up and talked for six minutes. She loves to jitterbug. Helpmann says that after dancing with her in ballet for 14 years, he only really got to know her after jitterbugging with her until dawn one time last year...