Sol Hurok, the Barnum of ballet, who has marketed every fashion in footwork from classic Pavlova to the Hindu Shan-Kar, put them all together last week in one 90-lb. package. His newest discovery, tiny, sinewy Carmelita Maracci, 34, got rave notices at her Carnegie Hall debut. She swirled in flamencos, glided through a waltz, and in the purple breeches of a matador climaxed a gymnastic bullfight on pointes as delicately as a Russian ballerina. Glowed Hurok: "It would have been easier to put Pavlova, Isadora Duncan and Escudero on the same stage and melt them down into one. But can you...
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