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- <text id=91TT0873>
- <title>
- Apr. 22, 1991: Died:Ruth Page
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 22, 1991 Nancy Reagan:Is She THAT Bad?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- MILESTONES, Page 74
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- <p> DIED. Ruth Page, 92, pioneering ballet dancer and
- choreographer; in Chicago. Page, whose distinctly American works
- include the first jazz ballet (Blues, 1928), the first
- commissioned ballet score by Aaron Copland (Hear Ye! Hear Ye!,
- 1934) and the once censored Frankie and Johnny (1938), also
- staged Soviet dancer Rudolf Nureyev's U.S. debut in 1962.
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- </body></article>
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