FAMOUS DANCER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 50, 27 January 1938, Page 15

FAMOUS DANCER.

TO WED IN AUSTRALIA. “I am looking forward to living in Sydney, where I can always be with people I like. I am tired of being considered a foreigner, as I was all the time I was with the Russian Ballet,” says Milo Helene Kirsova, who has arrived in Australia for her marriage with the Vice-Consul for Denmark, Dr. Eric Fischer. She was the principal ballerina with Colonel de Basil's Russian Ballet which visited New Zealand last year. “I am sorry to give up dancing. I have had a few had moments about it already, but I am glad to leave the ballet,” said Kirsova in an interview in the Sydney Daily Telegraph. “My parents were very much opnosed to dancing as a career, but I feel now that in nine years I have achieved, what I set out to do, and I am looking forward to having my own home,” said the famous ballerina, whose real name is Ellen Elizabeth Kirsten Wittrnp Hansen.

.“I want a home that I can walk right through, from room to room, and one that hasn’t any stairs,” said Mile. Kirsova. She considers modern furniture too uncomfortable and antique furniture too impracticable, and will strive to get something which is simple and comfortable. Although blue is her favourite colour, she says that people, tire of it in a home, and her furnishings will he cheerful bronze and tomato shades—like the “unforgettable entrance to Algiers.” A hand-painted wall hanging of “Petrouchka,” presented to her as a birthday present by Mr Louden St. Hill, of Melbourne, will l>o part of the furnishings for her new home, and she has asked Mr St. Hill to do some more work of a similar kind. On the voyage from London Mile. Kirsova made two silk frocks for her trousseau entirely by hand. She enjoys sewing and arranging flowers, but does not like cooking. “I can only cook Danish foods, and I think they are too heavv,” she said.

Her trousseau shopping in Paris consisted of four rushed days, during which she spent the time taxiing to and from Georgette Renal for fittings for her frocks. While in Paris Mile Kirsova had a few dancing lessons from her former teacher. Lubov Egorova, “just for fun.” she explained.

Although Dr. Fischer is at present in hospital, it is hoped that the wedding will take place on Fel'ruarv _3. as originally planned. Mile Kirsova hopes to see something of Australian station life on her honeymoon.