Popular wisdom is often wrong--even lightning occasionally strikes twice in the same place. In 1949, on that first and historic visit, Britain's Royal Ballet, then simply the penny-plain Sadler's Wells Ballet, or the "fabulous Sadler's Wells Ballet," as it was publicized by the tuppence-colored imagination of its impresario, Sol Hurok [see page 48], found a second home in New York City. And for a long time it returned, chez Hurok, at least every other year. But beginning in the ...