The most successful ballet season in U.S. history ended last week at Manhat tan's Metropolitan Opera House. Impre sario Sol Hurok's Ballet Theatre, during a six weeks' run, had attracted 150,000 beholders for a gross of approximately $250,000.
Canny Sol Hurok had bedizened his season with sure-fire box-office draws.
From Hollywood he had imported Igor Stravinsky to conduct his own Petrouchka, Vera Zorina to glamorize a new ballet called Helen of Troy. But the real balleto manes, who study pirouettes and entre chats as devoutly as a prizefight fan studies left hooks, knew...
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