METEORIC CAREER

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 78, 28 September 1940, Page 16

METEORIC CAREER

THE "STREAMLINED ZORINA"

Hollywood's publicity men so lavish with their words of praise for stars, for near stars, for films, and for directors, skilled in "build-ups" of negligible personalities destined to be established as favourites in the public mind, for once did not exaggerate when they described Zorina, long-established star of ballet in London and on the Continent, as an "international product." "Streamlined Zorina" is the Pressman's publicity tag. Zorina, whose parents were natives of

KristiansuncJ. the Norwegian Fiord which leapt into prominence with the Nazi invasion of Norway, was herself born in Berlin, and this the Hollywood agents described as "an accident of travel." At the age of eight Brigitta Hartwig made her first public appearance in a dance recital in Oslo and was found to show such promise that she was taken to Paris to study under Nicolas Legat, teacher of Pavlova and Nijinsky. At 17, she was "discovered" by Leonide Massine, director and star of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, and she was taken from "Ballerina," the London show in which she herself was starring, to tour the Continent and America. Her star has not waned. Now, at 23, I she is universally hailed as an actress !of the first water, as well as a prima ballerina of world-wide repute.