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Ballet dancer Moira Shearer has just announced that the child she is expecting in August will never be a ballet dancer- because, says Miss Shearer, " ballet dancer must practise every day. You can never let down; if you do you are finished,"

→How do the rewards and hard- ships of a ballerina's life square up? Consider the story of Tamara Toumanova, a ballerina at the top of her career, now in London and shortly due to play the part of Pavlova in a Hollywood film...

A ballerina finds it's not as bad

PINAMARA TOUMANOVA

(Mrs

Casey Robin-

son to the tax-man at Beverly Hills, Cal.) came into her flower-piled dressing-room,

day's

work done,

the

as all that

by CHARLES REID

We're

their careers at

break recorda in almost all theatres where I dance. [This dild')) not apply at the Stoll on her opening night I am the high- est paid ballerina in the

world," When I ask for alory d Latis Toumanova buts to

be excused,

The only figure she will discuss is her own. "I have

to relax. So my muscles are always known when and how

strong. flexible though

They

stiffen their muscles and loso

In the morning she had practised. In the afternoon sightingale), che admits she is wo.id-famous, part of ballet she had rehearsed. In the history, househou word for 20 don't stand out. Most dancers evening she had danced years. "But 32 is young. Most c exuberantly, not only for of the great ballerinas her Stoll public out in front, only starting but also, when an interval my age."

So Toumanova is in no hurry curtain came down, for the to forget anything. Least of all benefit of corps-de-ballet, the penniless early years. electricians, scene - shifters and others backstage.

their womanly Joveliness and charm.

that. I have avoided

I have avoided what is known as the ballerina's figure."" Purists Cluck

The family had come out of ONCE in a while her history- Russia empty-handed. When making stirs up critical brou- "When I dance," she explain her fall 111, Tamara became haha. At the Stoll purists cluck ed, "I feel all love and happiness. the breadwinner; for some disapprovingly at her way of I to so hard to leave off." Her left foot was bleeding a little. ar prodigy dancing mid balancing sensationally on

ཟས་ལ་ Each night brings its scratches most of the family bilis. Danc- toe for a toggering length of

ing leads for de Basil at the time by the thick and bruises. "You should see Alhambra 19 years

of classical ago, sho choreography. Toumanova Is

by the not moved

éluckings

one

my toes" sometimes, how the lodged in a Seven Dials skin rubs of She threw up lived on Ash-and-chly meals, Deactising backstage the cur Ther eyes and hands like a muf- thoppe cooked

wartly in streetmar stay on one toe for nearly a tyr in an El Greco painting. kets and

for Herself over

E half-and glories a gas-ring on Sundays, F. her minute and in the fact. The breadwinner

"Everybody, VET there was no droop, no first trip to America with the

my dear, just YET strong as a bull.") Through the 9 she lacked warm clothes. one loc. I am the only one who i sign of weariness. ("I am as de Basil company (winter '33-crubody tries to balance on! Friends in London gave her a can really do it. It is the same reasepaint her smilo had the a fur coat. "If they hadn't I freshness of 28. Perhaps I should have frozen on the way her heart, she says, to see other with her high ricks. It wrings rather far. A standard reference

arn over,"

dancers tearing themselves in book says Toumanova was born

two, poor darlings, in an effort which would make her

to kick as high.

in

1017,

35, "Thet." declares Toumanova, Lovely husband'

e all TONG

Bolsheviks. People

must

am 32.

only Ave as the time."

America she speaks affec-

pet

BS

But doesn't it all aneunt 15

manova.

YOU TOO!"

World Copyright. De arrangement with Dally Xerais.

Molly Pauses For Breath

By KENNETH PEARSON

of

are

over

10

whose demanded with

matched dis-

a

Her second year meant worke HE is only an al- lady would have been shatter-

Tokyo wounded miral's daughter, but ed at the thought of such un- 35 2. peceptionist in a สย

chaperoned perambulations, and hospital where the my', she's fleet birthday was March 2, 1920.onately. She became a Not a bit of it, argue Tou- foot!

the fact that 21 crowded years from Korea came for treatment - mere personal showing off?

could encompass direct con- in their pitiful hundreds. Birthplace: a freight-cor cross-

would

confer two wars,

"Father few over toTM war. fervent American subject ing Siberia during civil

"Always I am the

she believes tact with Certainly

shake with General Ridgway at least Parents; a Tsarist colonel and a 1943; murried Casey Robinson, artist. Never do I spoil the that "It's better to travel have been enough to

They best three times a month. the foundations of the Georglan princess fleeing the follywood script writer and film th the

Win rhythm,

visual pattern. hopefully than to arrive" rooted aspidistra. Times were hours of happy reunion producer, the year after "f hanc Every night I tremble before

with the man who never spoke such fervour that change. Toumanova the lovelless husband," she says, going on the stage. insist

wer with 11 is never

Molly Joy, bracing herself unless he had samething worth be older than

is "It's a lovely, marvellous marri ghe

before setting out for Scot saying, with the man because she started dancing in age, Casey adores my father and: Just another performance. It is Jules Verne's laurels

always history

um maxi

Round threatened,

the land, nears the end of a long, strong personnity Father and- mother.

motlier Paris, undor. Pavlova's banner,

long journey which comes to a respect and admiration, all of 27 years ago. But I was adore Casey. I have everything some fresh thought, some fresh world in 80 days, indeed?-

But life with father is apt to halt, temporarily, one suspects, the man who I want in the world-beautiful Poetry I am putting into ballet.

In the must re-create, re-think

in Washington my produce an existence of guide part of April, and which bo-

curly cipline with tolerance.. In her uninhibited way (her home, three dogs, 100

roles all the time. I want to be books, train schedules and the can one fateful Sunday morn

Follow The Sun egotism equals that of a pigeons, lovely cars

Toumanova. I don't want to be

to be hurled glimpse of one world's like all

Then out of a party and When

ballerinas. she has finished

the other

conversation with friend Nan- · goodness, I have guest dancer at the Stoll early And, my

years ago. When one's other; especially ung await just

father

cy Parker, daughter of

Stan- next month Toumanova flics worked hard enough to perfect Admiral Charles Turner

Joy, Pearl Harbour

dard Oll representative in the back 10 Hollywood to act my own style. And long

leader of the United Nations. Twenty-seven

That was the day when Far East, arose the idea of sec- Pavlova for Darry! Zanuck in enough.

years delegation to, the Korea's truce have given. Tonight We Sing, a backstage I

uce father was in the US aircraft ing how the other half of the God gave me discussions, and oneself

happens I have the right to be his daughter, Mary Martha Pearl Harbour, and Molly Joy low the

earrler Lexington film which will bring in a dozen great talent,

outside world lived. They would fol other celebrities of the Pavlova to be myself."

(Molly) Joy, 21 short, slim

Two months ago the was 'malding' the bed in a fort period, including the singer

and dark, with a penchant for island house before going off girls left Japan in a French The great ones

meeting well-travelled people.

church.

ship. It took them to Hong- she in ARMING up to her theme,

The sound of planes roaring Kons where i prekod WATHING UP to her themes from the elegant s In Tandon m

from They were doing. the Reds, and on Englishman But ballet is the main thing, history to show (a) how great the American women's club in Close overhead caused no ex- group of nuns, refugees Dancing in Europe for pre- dancers of the past have deve gage, some of it on the way dropped bombs

Mayfair, her well-packed lug- clicment.

y that all the time. When they who, cut off in the silence of

ind

Shanghai, wasn't sure almost

"who. ference. America,

says, loped their styles, and (b) how home, tells she

the full story, does not give her, the right sort ballet itself-

sank the American Beet, neu- thee the United States belong- constantly kimonos and pearls from Japan, tral complacency was ut 011

ed to Russia, of ballet teams or partners. evolved in a technical senic. At crystal from the antique shops end, and Molly spent the next On to Manila' and then to America pays well, true. "But the end of her speech she is all of Italy, dress lengths from

48 hours in

troops, Saigon where French céllar: France pays me almost as much.

triumph, as smiling

sure the salons of Paris, and, if be of anything lucky, London silver to

Back to California for school, bound for home, bourded the And Italy pays me tremendous anybody can

fol-

aver to the East Coast and vessel in boisterous fashion, 17. In Italy I am the highest that she had pulped the purists low.

whose school, and Washington for more

quickly spoken paid artist of any kind, I am and sent them down the waste-

Fifty years ago the drawing while father, a gunnery expert, tongue reduced the girls very big box office, you see. I pipe.

room life at a well-bred young assumed command of the naval the gesticulating exasperation

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From there, time hove. into sight. was appointed Commander, by us and train, Molly Joy | Naval Forces, Far East, in and Co. gave a flashing glance Pisa, which position he has spent to the French Riviera, the "Get out and tell, apparel men the last few montits wrangling Home and Switzerland OWN in Texas they Trumanites in an election told." "Slaying for a song con- with the Communists, first at settling down in Paris for

fessed, says cops."

Kaesong, and then at Panmun- month to indulge in a have been having fun year.

Not circulating paper "money"

60, replies the FOR the first time in her long 10. Mra Joy and Molly made for art galleries, arul the lazy

rhythm of wayside cafe the trip to Tokyo with him. and glamorous career, Sonja printed to resemble 100 and Treasury; politics

In the Japanese capital the chestras. have Henle, the ice queen, is losing

out family lived in a large House, More And More 1,000 dollar bills, but carry- nothing to do with it.

money. She got "frozen

Dart European and But the ing

New York Dally of Madison Square Gartlen by Japanese, which had been taken A whole host of new and ex- a variety of jokes,

News sums up: "They just rival interests, wisecracks, and pletures

over by the occupying forces, citing sentations and experien- can't take it. Anybody who

shared with some ces, were absorbed at: the which impishly satirise could mistake one of these GORGEOUS diamonds about and was

worth will be Marines, 20 Japanese servants opera, the ballet, from President Truman and the burlesques for genuine money 2100,000

this and a. chinese cook.

French family with which they would-be as crazy as some auctioned in New York

and were staying,

in part he has allegedly played people think Truman is. We month. Now, perhaps, thuy Japanese Days

mentorable brondcast on Paris in reducing the buying say let's have blizzards of this will be worn, something that

happened for several "The Japanese, cays 'Molly radio: power of American cur- funny money. It's educational," hasn't

decades. For they belonged to Joy, "ure a difficult race to IN THE LOBBY of New, the late Helly

Ann understand. On the one hand, city with Sylvia

an eye for beauty, Sph

sphere," where 22 street's York Hotel a pretty woman Howland Green Wilks, recluse they have

a string Of Now there is an uproar sitting at a table asked mo: daughter of

80 length embraces the Witch of on the other they can be

centuries;:; and the errant cou“. because the U.S. Treasury Won't you sign up for Elcen- Wall Street, Hotty Green, And terribly cruci,"

old When I explained she kept the sparklers

Her days were an interna ple stand amazed at the hower?" asks the Justice Depart that I was a Briton and the bank vault for a quarter of a tional mixture of hamburgers and onelent ment to stop the distribu- matter was not of direct con- century.

and sulyaki, the Japanese hot- Now the trip has

almost tion of the fake dollars on cern to me, she said,

lily come full circle, maybe not in rather

of bamboo shoots, pot HUMAN TOUCH: In holes, meat, beer and sike.

80 days, but good enough, And the ground that they violate pettishly, "It seems as if there. THIE

Hiroshima was Just ‚a the future, bificates Molly Joy nobody in New Yorke today Hollywood they are telling of the anti-counterfeiting laws. except Britons and Canadiana" the movie tycoon who

naked memory with a wiro fence with a slightly weary aigh, in his secretary where his Absurd, cry the critics,

pen round the hallowed point of as clear cut as the past. She'll HEADLINE" favourites:" "Peer was, "On your car, bass," she impact of the first, atom bomb; mest more people and travel this has nothing to do with all wet on Thames theory; te cald. "Stop stalling!" reared and the hop just roud the further. Life with that sort of counterfeiting it is be- Romans walked but he swims." the big shot, "Which car?” corner cold couvenirsi

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