Word: pavlova
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Remi Gassman) weak and stumbling, but Billy was the brightest thing the dilapidated Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo has done this season. Three Manhattan churchmen also had a word to say about it: they found Billy Sunday sinful. To 38-year-old Choreographer Page, who once toured with Pavlova, the charge was nothing new: her lusty Frankie and Johnny had to be tidied up by New York censors, is still banned in Boston. Says she: "The Bible is filled with sex, especially the Old Testament. And anyway, you can't be very sexy on your toes...
...Mary's smart Coach Jimmy Phelan explained it: "He's a cross between Pavlova and Sonja Henie . . . and he has that Hawaiian rhythm." (Wedemeyer is half German, half Hawaiian.) In the fourth quarter, when a Fordham quick kick sailed over his head, Wedemeyer chased it back to his 30-yard line, then, as tacklers converged on him, kicked the ball right back. It rolled dead on Fordham's five. So flustered was Fordham that its quarterback called for a forward pass on the next play, pitched it smack into the arms of a St. Mary...
London's balletomanes were bursting with pride over a local girl who had made good. Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express boasted that the 26-year-old prima ballerina of the Sadler's Wells Ballet was "greater than Pavlova." Slim-limbed Margot Fonteyn was the hottest thing in English ballet since London-born Alice Marks became the great Alicia Markova...
...appointed chief of the Cincinnati Symphony.) San Francisco-born Alfred Wallenstein and Kansas-born Karl Krueger lack neither talent nor experience. Wallenstein started his career as an infant-prodigy cellist at the age of six, toured South America as a side show with the late great Anna Pavlova, studied in Germany with famed Cellist Julius Klengel...
Alicia Markova is, by practically unanimous consensus, the greatest ballerina . alive. Only the cautious conservatism of ballet's experts keeps her from being hailed unreservedly as a ballerina assoluta, a rank in the choric hierarchy attained in recent generations only by Marie Taglioni and the late great Anna Pavlova. Well above a mime dansante (like Irina Baro-nova), immeasurably superior to a soubrette (Zorina's rating), Alicia Markova has attained to the category danseuse noble, and she may get to be a ballerina assoluta yet. She has a combination of flawless classical technique and an ability to project...