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Weather CMB4262 Noosa 9/22 Fine 22 Thursday, July 3, 2008 smh.com.au The Sydney Morning Herald Timelines [email protected] 9282 2742 I 1850 Work began on the first NSW railway, from Sydney to Parramatta I 1905 In Odessa, around 6000 people were killed as Russian troops restored order during a general strike I 1954 Nearly nine years after the end of World War II, food rationing in Britain finally ended IN THE HERALD: 1841 Joy for life nurtured State of Origin’s first steps Prodigy prized love over dance Ǡ AmeetingofcolonistsatGoulburnresolvedto in a Budapest sewer take action to make ‘‘the halls of Downing Street’’ resound with ‘‘a voice from NSW’’. The group IRINA BARONOVA believed they were being presumed upon, the chief TOMMY LAPID protest being a British Government requirement 1919–2008 that the colony GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG 1931–2008 pay the total AS A child, she was nicknamed GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG cost of its police ‘‘bouboule’’, meaning little ball or THE death of the journalist, broad- and justice bubble. And with her bright blue eyes caster and politician Tommy Lapid system. They and bubbly personality, Irina has cost Israel a colourful and con- decided that the Baronova lived up to the affectionate troversial figure. issue was not name all her life. Her technical ability At the height of his popularity in likely to be and inherent artistry took her to the the 1990s, as co-host of the weekly resolved by a top of the hierarchical world of ballet. Popolitica current affairs program, mere petition, rather that inhabitants of NSW She joined the Ballets Russes de he was known as Archie Bunker, should ‘‘first possess themselves of their just Monte-Carlo during its formative after the cantankerous patriarch of colonial powers, the powers of self-government years in the early 1930s, and at 14was the American television comedy All and representative legislation’’. regarded as a child prodigy. Along In The Family. Tommy Lapid ... his whole life a Ǡ Owners of the sailing ship Scotia announced it with two other teenage dancers, she People might not have agreed response to the Holocaust. Photo: AP would not be leaving Port Macquarie on time became part of a promotable trinity. with him but they could not ignore because ‘‘the greater part of its cargo is still on The co-director of the company,Co- him. Even his enemies were One of Lapid’s targets was the board’’. People wishing to claim cargo were asked lonel Wassily de Basil, needed to mar- known to quote the ancient rab- ultra-Orthodox community, which to make the ‘‘earliest application’’ to retrieve it. ket it in Europe and the publicity binic saying that ‘‘his mouth spoke increasingly demanded public Ǡ AmeetingoftheTotalAbstinenceSociety surrounding the trio was a powerful what his heart felt’’. money while refusing to send its resolved that ‘‘the use of intoxicating liquors by way to do so. He was fortunate that, The pugnacious, fast-talking men into the armed forces or pay persons in sound health is injurious’’. It also during a London season by the com- Lapid, who has died aged 76, was its share of national insurance. He resolved that a petition be sent to the governor of pany,the dance writer Arnold Haskell born Tomislav Lempel in Serbia, once publicly referred to its mem- the Legislative Council praying that the import and christened Baronova, Tamara then part of Yugoslavia, to bers as parasites, a term Hitler manufacture of alcoholic drinks be prohibited. Toumanova and Tatiana Hungarian-Jewish parents. His used against the Jews. Politically Ǡ In the Insolvent Debtors Court, a clerk appeared Riabouchinska as ‘‘the baby baller- father,Bela, a lawyer and journalist, of the liberal-right, he was not because he was in default of his payments. Justice inas’’ and the label stuck. was taken by the Gestapo in 1943 afraid to describe the settlers in Stephenheardthatthepoorman,on£185annual Baronova’s stage career was rela- Ever bubbling ... Irina Baronova in 2001 and at Sydney’s Theatre Royal in 1938. Photos: Jon Reid, Fairfax Archives/K.Rainsford and never seen again, Lapid spent the occupied territories as fascists. wage,hadborrowed£15sixmonthsbeforeand tively short. She retired aged 27 when the rest of the war in the Budapest In 1999 he led the secular Shinui agreedtopayinterestof£2-8-4amonth.Stephen she married her second husband, Laur- Paris Opera in 1930 and two years Florian,thenjoinedthenewlyformed In 1967, Tennant was driving ghetto. The experience had an (Change) party into a general elec- said that ‘‘the extraction of such enormous ence Olivier’s agent, Cecil Tennant. later was taken into the Ballets Russes Ballet Theatre in the US. She also near their home on an English indelible effect. ‘‘My whole life is a tion. It initially won six seats, rising interest’’ was ‘‘the most scandalous, low-bred, After Tennant’s death, however, she by the company’s ballet master and toured the US with a company run by country road when his car crashed response to the Holocaust,’’ he said. to 15 in the 2003 election, en- blackguard transaction’’ he had ever come across. re-dedicated her life to ballet, assisting choreographer, George Balanchine. Massine called Ballet Russe Highlights. into a tree, killing him and injuring In many ways, Lapid was the abling it to join Ariel Sharon’s co- He recommended that the clerk pay no more. the Royal Academy of Dance, teaching Baronova created roles in Leonide Baronova divorced Sevastianov and Irina and Robert. quintessential Israeli success story. alition government – on condition Malcolm Brown ballet and mime, and speaking at many Massine’s ballets Les Presages, Jeux gradually lost focus on her ballet ca- Later Baronova resumed her re- He could recall how his mother, the rival, ultra-Orthodox Shas events about her life with the Ballets d’enfants and Le Beau Danube and in reer. She worked at Radio City Music lationship with Sevastianov and was Katarina, hid him in a sewer to save party was excluded. Lapid was ap- Russes and Ballet Theatre, now known Bronislava Nijinska’s Les Cent Baisers, Hall, in a play and a musical comedy, with him when he died in 1974. him from the Nazis, and how he pointed the minister of justice and Copies of front pages from The Sydney Morning Herald as American Ballet Theatre. and danced in major ballets by Michel then went to Britain to appear in the Baronova returned to her ballet counted each subsequent year of his deputy prime minister. During his can be bought through Fairfax Photos. Irina Mikhailovna Baronova, who Fokine and in Balanchine’s Cotillon thriller ABulletInTheBallet. life when Margot Fonteyn, as presi- life as a gift. short term, he introduced laws to Go to www.fairfaxfrontpages.com. has died aged 89, was born in and La Concurrence.Attheageof14, In London she met the agent Cecil dent of the Royal Academy of In 1948, he and his mother emi- secularise the legal system but Petrograd, now St Petersburg, the she danced as Odette in Swan Lake, Tennant. He proposed, on the con- Dance, asked her to conduct a grated to the newly formed state of controversy within his party led to daughter of naval lieutenant partnered by Anton Dolin, who be- dition that she give up her ballet career. training course for teachers. Israel. There he served in the mili- his resignation in 2004, and his Michael Baronov and his wife, came her favourite stage partner. Three years ago she was asked if In 1992, she returned to Russia to tary and studied law at Tel Aviv Uni- appointment as the chairman of RSVP Lydia. Late in 1920, the family In 1936, aged 17, Baronova eloped she would do that again. help the Maryinsky Theatre with an versity. He entered journalism with the Yad Vashem Holocaust mem- moved to Romania where her with the much older German (Jerry) Baronova replied: ‘‘Yes, I would, archival project and eight years ago, a Hungarian-language newspaper, orial and museum. The Cowra Family History Group Inc celebrates mother, who had dreamed of a ballet Sevastianov,aRussian and anephew of because I had the most blissful, visited her daughter Irina, in Bryon Uj Kelet, and moved in 1955 to the His common touch made him its 25th anniversary this year. A lunch will be held career, took her to ballet lessons. Konstantin Stanislavsky,who started as wonderful 18 years, with the most Bay, where she decided to settle. national daily Maariv. one of Israel’s most influential me- on Saturday, September 27. All past members It was not until Baronova saw a per- ageneralfactotumfordeBasil. wonderful husband who made me Baronova lost much of her eye- He gained a reputation as a dia figures, a position reinforced are invited. For further information contact the formance by the Russian ballerina They had a second church mar- very happy. We had three children sight but wrote her autobiography, combative, even curmudgeonly me- by his writings – plays, guide- Cowra Family History Group Inc, PO Box 495, Tamara Karsavina that she under- riage in Sydney in 1938 when [Victoria, who was married to the Irina: Ballet, Life And Love,inlong dia personality, not afraid to state books, even a cookbook of kosher Cowra, NSW 2794, or [email protected] stood the art form. Her teacher re- Baronova was on tour with one of actor Steve Martin, and now works hand and continued to speak at his opinion or to fight for what he Hungarian dishes. commended advanced training with a the de Basil touring companies. In in film production, Irina, a pho- events, most recently, five weeks thought was right. In 1979 he was Tommy Lapid is survived by his more experienced teacher, so the fam- Australia, she was feted as a glamor- tographer, and Robert, a writer], a ago, in Adelaide at a symposium on appointed the chairman of the wife, Shulamit, an author, son Yair CONTACT US ily moved to Paris, where she was ous star, her image used to sell prod- wonderful home and family life and the Ballets Russes tours of Australia.
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