The golden call of a trumpet blazed last week in a rococo Manhattan theatre. On the stage, blonde, hollow-cheeked Dancer Tatiana Riabouchinska, in the blazing gold costume of the cock in Coq d'Or, soared in the grand jete, the ballet's classic leap. On other nights, when the stage was ranked with silk tights and tutus (tarlatan ballet skirts), pretty, plump-cheeked Irina Baronova and dark, lissome Tamara Toumanova took the spotlight for effortless spins, whirls, leaps.
These three, reunited, were the "baby stars" who seven winters ago, when they were in their teens, began making...
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