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A Remarkable \PersonalityvtttIn the company presenting “The Wanderer,’’ at the Metropolitan Opera Houae next Thursday, the aggregation of stars is so notable that it is only upon close examination that one discovers the presence of a striking and unusual personality. Her name is Ketty de Galanta. .Sne is the leader of the ballet and premiere danse use in the second act, showing tlie revels in Jerusalem. , .:This remarkable personality has already' been recognized bv the producinglinn of William Elliott, f. Kay Comstock and Morris (lest, who have placed the young woman under contract for ’five years, and are now teaching her English so that they may make her a great dramatic actress. One instinctively thinkso* \a?'ult;«vjt iti connect toil with this antiFIiarhwobdtidvpaslt;t!nouncemcnt, for it was not so many years ago that she too spoke only in Russian, and yet afterwards she became a great American dramatic star. There are many points of resemblance between Galanta and Karimova; both are Russian, both are of the dark and tempestuous type, and both have a wonderful personality, but Galanta’s eyes are her chief assets, and her toes have already-won her fame. , ' .■,Ketty de Galanta was bom in Russiajust twenty years ago, and at the age of six she was entered as a pupil at the ballet school in Petrograri. Her parents were fairly well-to-do, and though not o the nobility, belonged to the cultured middle class of Russia. Galanta gave such evidence of her fondness for dancing that it was decided to make a ballet star of her. She became a ward to the Russian Government, which then maintained the Imperial Opera in Petrograd. From the time she was six, until she became eighteen, she danced either in the ballet of the Imperial Opera or in the11i1\teIa1ePa* iPballet school. In* this way she came under the training of Serge Diaghileff, anddanced in his wonderful ballets.When Otto Kahn, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, imported the Russian ballet a year ago, Ketty de Galanta was one of the minor members of the company, but while she was unknown when 'she came to America, she had not been in this country more than a few weeksbefore photographers, artist^ and critics commenced to rave over her beauty and her wonderful eyes.oclt;aUwUtls1cldHi11anSFn
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Sun, Sep 16, 1917
Page 38
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