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Show BALLET DANCERS. Investigation Shows That They Are Unusually Un-usually I-ong-Livetl. A statistician has been devoting himself to a study of the eminent in this particular art, and his investigation investiga-tion seems to establish the fact that they are an unusually long-lived lot. The famous Carlotta Grisi is living now at the age of 77, and one of the ballet dancers at the opera in Paris la 70; but he Is a man. Amalia Ferraris is still teaching at the age of 78 In Paris, and seems likely to continue that work for some time to come. Fanny Essler was 74 when she died, and Taglionl has passed her 80th year. Rosita Mauri, the popular premiere at the opera in Paris, is over 50. and has begun to talk of retiring. |