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WAY YOU LOOK AT IT.

WHICHEVER

1961

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1960.

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Why a man becomes a ballet dancer

By DONALD GOMERY

HE is 11st, of perfectly co-ordinated muscle. He used to be an Army P.T. instructor-toughen- ing-up exercises in the morning, assault courses in the afternoon. He is the expert Britain's Olympic high-jumpers consult.

WILL BE... LUCKY.

That's Michael Somes, Britain's star male ballet dancer. For the first time he has stepped out from the shadow of his great partner Margot Fonteyn to talk about himself as a dancer-and as a man.

For Somes, In the public mind, is always the other halt of the Foleyn-Somes partner- ship-always lo that order, with Fonteyn first.

from his digs in Pimlico to Sadler's Wells or having to glass of milk and a bun in the Sadler's Wells canteen.

ever

The frst time ho Why does a man choose to danced with Fonteyn was when become a ballet dancer? Why she, already marked out for

docs he toll and sweat to get to the top in the unreal never-never land of the ballet a world where, however good tre is, he is always just off the pinnacle of fame; where he must always take second place

to a woman?

Fonteyn and Somes have just returned from America. In the Green Room at Covent Garden Michael Somes spoke of his fumous partnership in this way: That he was the dynams in the background and she was the Eght the publie sees,

He content with his post- Lion in the works, which is vital, and does not mind being hidden by her brilliance.

- "Although this is the day of the great ballerinas, in the past there was the age of Nijinsky. And in the future the male dancer may once again be in the arcendant," he told me.

'Horrified'

Somes is much smaller than he seems on stage; 5ft. 91⁄2 in. But even at 43 he is a tremen cous athlete, muscles develop ed by years of daring.

One of his "crusades," he says, is against the suggestion that there is something effete in male participation

world of Ballet.

in the

future greatness, arrived late for rehearsal and he was the only boy free.

Somes was born in the West Country, and went Brst to school in Taunton, where his mother was a schoolteacher.

"But the teacher was horri- fed when he saw us together and quickly put Margot over to the great Robert Helpmann."

"My mother. rather thon leave me at home, would tako me to dancing lessons at the

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Gradually she began to include me in the lessons too.

"Later at grammar

Somes was 17 then and she a ilte younger.

Tuned...

There have been a lot of Fonteyn-Somes partnerships dince.

In the war be joined the Royal Artillery and tool the rough with the smooth on the KUM site, and rose to tho "nemendous heights" of bom- bardier and P.T. Instructor.

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"It could be pretty tough, but 1 liked it. Once when I was ill in hospital my pals from the run so came to me with a gire "There you are, Bomb, anti It was a book of Shakespeare, It is one of my happiest memo-les."

After the war began his great parnership with Fonteyn with Minds tuned in live a wireless ret," he says. Another partner- ship. was not to endure. He married and together ho and his wife did the rounds of tho Entique shops furnishing their little fat he doing the do-it- yourself jobs of painting and mending tthe furniture.

The fla was just Anished when she died. Somes has never returned to the fat.

A little...

In London, in the evenings, school ho likes an occasional glass of beer with his friends in a little

my head master said I must choose between dancing and pub. homework. I chose dancing.

When he has time

he takes

*41 came

to London with his old car out in the country, nothing in my pocket, and I and goes to the films. am rather glad of that now because En artist musi not have things came too easily."

He lived on just "a Kitle too little," which was about five shillings a week; he could chcoce between taking a bus

Soon It will be time again for other curtain-up on the great Foney-Somes partnership,

Afterwards he will takes a bow with her always standing just that little bit behind.--London Express Service

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ACROSS

* Spinal column. (8)

In the arms of Morpheus.

(8)

9 llung on (8)

11 "- oblige."'" (8)

12 Land mass. (4)

13 Timely ringers. (5)

18 French author. (5)

19 Shah's country. (4)

21 Swelling (8)

24 Told a secret. (8)

25 Youngster. (0)

DOWN

1 Pops some pieces? (5)

2 Sphere of instruction. (5)

8 Moistened early one morn-

ing? (7)

4 Coples the beasts? (4)

5 Joint often, bent. (4)

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7 Heighten affection. (0)

10 Religious work, (5)

24 Beautifully clear. (8)

15 Historic sulton. (7)

16 Piccadilly? (0)

20 It's little short of treason! 17 Not allowed. (0)

(8)

20 Quick, 'It's cold. (5)

21 Express disgust? (5)

22 Zat sparingly, (4) 23 Famous old-timer. (4)

YESTERDYA'S CROSSWORD-Acroel. §. Couplets, 7 Harpo, 8-Baritone, 10 Revert, 19-Probate, 18 Avery 17 Laddera, 18 Forevor, 20 Arld, 21 Engross, Eleven, 2? Top Grado, 28 Ar- row, 29 Derliion. Down: i Sharp; 2 Bravo, 3 Cobra, 4′ Palz, 5 Evolve, 6 Swears, 9 Afties, 11 Error, 12" Ebbed, 14 Earned,,15 Adors, 18 Krast, 18 Fatted, 19 Ripper, 28 Glean, 23 Overi, 21. Bnowy, 25 Iria,

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