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Graceful moment: Italy's prima ballerina, Carla Fracci, rehearses withe Frank Augustyn for John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet, which opens at O'Keefe Centre Wednesday night
Graceful moment: Italy's prima ballerina, Carla Fracci, rehearses withe Frank Augustyn for John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet, which opens at O'Keefe Centre Wednesday night

Graceful moment: Italy's prima ballerina, Carla Fracci, rehearses withe Frank Augustyn for John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet, which opens at O'Keefe Centre Wednesday night

Date4/18/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: Graceful moment: Italy's prima ballerina; Carla Fracci; rehearses withe Frank Augustyn for John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet; which opens at O'Keefe Centre Wednesday night.
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