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...Rita Hay worth, reunited with daughters Rebecca, 8 (by second husband Orson Welles), and Yasmin, 3 (by third husband Aly Khan). Then came some rapid-fire news: Rita and her crooning suitor, Dick Haymes, signed a pact safeguarding her money for her own use. Dick's third wife, Nora, divorced him in California and signed a waiver agreeing to his Nevada divorce. Haymes and Hayworth announced that their wedding would finally come off this week...
...pair of young Iron Curtain refugees turned up in London's Festival Hall last week and put on a rare show: a firsthand demonstration of contemporary Russian ballet style. They were Hungary's Istvan Rabovsky, 23, and his wife, Nora Kovach, 21, since 1949 leading dancers in the Leningrad, Moscow and Budapest Opera ballets. They danced the Grand Pas de Deux from Don Quixote-a circusy old number that gave little chance for high art but plenty for high jumps-with a kind of brilliant virtuosity that left balletomanes' toes twitching. Istvan won top honors with...
...Rabovskys' debut had human appeal. Last May, booked for guest appearances in East Berlin, they discovered that underneath their hotel was a subway station on the line leading to the Western sector. An hour before their first-night curtain, they slipped downstairs, took a westbound train, and, says Nora, whose English made her the family spokesman, "Whisst, we come out." Last week, curled up on a couch in their London apartment, Nora recalled that for two nights afterward, "I didn't sleep because I was thinking of mother, home, family. It's a very big problem...
Freedom meant, among other things, freedom to dance how and what the Rabovskys wish. Russian ballet companies stick closely to the classic repertory, e.g., Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Les Sylphides; in lavish productions with casts which regularly numbered several hundred, Nora and Istvan were only two of more than a dozen leading dancers, in Leningrad took leading roles only about four times a month. Many of the ballets for which they had been trained are now banned; Ravel's Bolero is "erotic," Stravinsky's Petrouchka is "decadent." Nora also likes to jitterbug, but when she tried...
...good many composers. There are a number of skits with promising ideas, but few that are even reasonably funny. Dave Burns is an enjoyable comic, and Hiram Sherman-even without good material-an ingratiating commentator. Most notably, Jerome Robbins has worked out some attractive dances and ballets, and Ballerina Nora Kaye contributes some attractive dancing. But somehow all these names don't add up to very much news...