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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1951.

BALLET FAMILY

LIKE OTHER CHILDREN, Andre and brother Paul like to browse through family album. This one is filled with pictures of their father and his famous partners. Eglevsky is considered world's foremost male ballet dancer.

PERFECTION in basic ballet steps is the foundation upon which topnotch ballet dancers build routines. Here. Andre learns the correct First Position.

Ballet Lessons are Fun

To Son of Famed Dancer

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD Andre Eg-

́levsky, Jr., isn't quite sure, yet whether he want to be a fireman or a ballet dancer. But the boy isn't taking any chances. After school, in Massapequa, N. Y., he goes home and practises the positions, an arabesque two and stands on his toes-just in caso ballet wins out.

Andre's mother and father are his teachers. The older Andre Eglevsky has been flying through the air, apimming and perfortning amazing leg-beats in leading roles since he was 14. Mother fa the former Leda Anchutina, who re- tired after 12 miccessful ballet

career,

The world-renowned Eglevsky recently returned from a Euro- pean tour with the Marquis de Cuevas Grand Ballot to sturtu their New York production. Each night when the final curtain fell, the virtuoso took off his fittering costume and slipped into the role of suburbanite, 1 commuter whose trim home is no different from otherS on its quiet Long. Island street.

During the day, the dynamic artist usually can be found trim- ming his hedges, raking leaves or going through his daily two hours of limbering up exercises.

The Eglevskys believe that the proper age for a youngster to be- gin ballet lessons is when he is That's when eight years old. Junior started on his first steps. He's allowed to practise only a short time each day. This pro- vents muscle fatigue and does not interfere with normal play.

PROUD ANDRE watches his famous father demonstrate the tech nical prowess necessary for true artistic precision, which combines

classical, form with graceful 'simplicity: Boy's mother is at right. Although this step appears simple; it is the result of long practice.

"ATHER AND BON jump together,

at the boy

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