Two of the most popular dancers of Europe, Ruth Sorel Abramovitch and George Groke, make their American debut this (Sunday) evening at the Majestic. They are both exiles from Nazi Germany.
Miss Abramovitch, blonde and blue-eyed, told reporters Friday that five months spent in Palestine had made a deep impression on her and Groke.
FIND PALESTINE BUSTLING
“All the Jews are going there,” she murmured. “The population doubled while we danced. They are building all the time. Even at night they work by electric lights.”
Graduates of the Mary Wigman School, Miss Abramovitch and Groke earned their first laurels as featured ballet dancers in the Municipal Opera in Berlin. When Hitler moved into office their contracts were cancelled. They then went to Poland.
HAVE STRIKING STYLE
Reports which preceded them are that their style is spectacular, vigorous and intensely personal. Groke is renowned for facile elevation, while his partner is famous abroad for daring interpretations of Potiphar’s wife and Salome.
She was reluctant to discuss anti-Semitism in the Third Reich. “My father, who used to be an art critic for several Berlin newspapers, is still in Germany,” she explained sadly. “And so is my sister Leah.”
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