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S. HUROK PRESENTS

A MEMOIR OF THE DANCE WORLD

BY S. HUROK

In these exciting memoirs, S. Hurok, Impresario Extraordinary, revealsthe incredible inside story of the glamorous and temperamental world ofthe dance, a story only he is qualified to tell. From the golden timesof the immortal Anna Pavlova to the fabulous Sadler’s Wells Ballet,Hurok has stood in the storm-center as brilliant companies andextravagant personalities fought for the center of the stage.

Famous as “the man who brought ballet to America and America to theballet,” the Impresario writes with intimate knowledge of the dancerswho have enchanted millions and whose names have lighted up the marqueesof the world. Isadora Duncan, Loie Fuller, Lydia Lopokova, Escudero, theFokines, Adolph Bolm, Argentinita, Massine, Alicia Markova, Anton Dolin,Robert Helpmann, Shan-Kar, Martha Graham, Moira Shearer, Margot Fonteyn,Ninette de Valois, and Frederick Ashton are only a few of thecelebrities

who shine and smoulder through these pages.

The fantastic financial and amorous intrigues that have split balletcompanies asunder come in for examination, as do the complicateddealings of the strange “Col.” de Basil and his various Ballet Russeenterprises; Lucia Chase and her Ballet Theatre; and the phenomenaltours of the Sadler’s Wells companies.

Although the Impresario’s pen is sometimes cutting, it is also blessedby an unfailing sense of humor and by his deep understanding that agreat artist seldom exists without a flamboyant temperament to match.

There are many beautiful illustrations—32 pages.

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S. HUROK PRESENTS

COPYRIGHT, 1953, BY S. HUROK
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published simultaneously in Canada by Geo. J. McLeod, Toronto

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