About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 45. Chapters: Hermione Darnborough, Alicia Markova, Margot Fonteyn, Jamie Bell, Wendy Toye, Darcey Bussell, Gillian Lynne, Keith McMillan, Deborah Bull, Leon Cooke, Viviana Durante, Wayne Sleep, Liam Mower, Frederick Ashton, Jeremy Sheffield, Antony Tudor, Simone Clarke, Maina Gielgud, Joshua Fedrick, Natasha Oughtred, Christopher Wheeldon, Celia Franca, Ben Stevenson, Rachel De Thame, Vanessa Hooper, Matthew Koon, Peter Darrell, Anthony Dowell, Christopher Gable, Oliver Taylor, Peter Haden-Guest, 4th Baron Haden-Guest, Kevin O'Hare, Stanley Williams, George Maguire, Miyako Yoshida, Marguerite Porter, Beryl Goldwyn, James Lomas, Dominic North, David Blair, Valda Setterfield, Anton Dolin, David Gayle, Doreen Wells, Adam Cooper, Julia Farron, Lydia Sokolova, John Gilpin, Christopher Hampson, Jonathan Ollivier, Edward Watson, Michael Somes, David Bintley, Xander Parish, Sarah Wildor, Rupert Pennefather, Frederic Franklin, Hamoir, Georgina Parkinson, Phyllis Bedells, Erina Takahashi, Alastair Marriott, Stanley Holden, Anya Linden, Lauren Cuthbertson, Phyllida Crowley Smith, Gary Avis, Sally Gilpin, Antoinette Sibley, Daniel Jones. Excerpt: Hermione Maria Louise Darnborough (1915-29 October 2010), later Hermione Mathieson, was an English principal ballerina who made her name at Sadler's Wells in the 1930s. She retired at a young age after marrying the distinguished conductor and composer Muir Mathieson (1911-75). Hermione Darnborough came from a wealthy and well-connected family who lived in Weybridge, Surrey. On the side of her "glamorous and determined" mother, Frances, she was a cousin of the Duke of Argyll and the Duke of Portland. Her American father, Bill (or Billy) Darnborough (1869-1958), a former minor league baseball player and chop house owner who amassed a small fortune at roulette in the early years of the twentieth centu...
