Plot

Madame Greta Petrov, tells stories about her ballet pupils.  Madame Petrov, helps to solve many of the girls problems and she is helped by her assistant Elma Harper. In one story she helps a girl Dianne who is forced to dance in secret as her father forbids her to dance because her mother was killed in a theatre fire, she helps persuade the father to let Dianne dance. In another story she has difficulties when a movie star comes to learn dancing for her next role, but is too big headed to listen to Madame Petrov, and ends with her having an accident. The star learns humility and Madame Petrov, convinces the movie producer that another pupil with similar build and with make up can do the dancing parts for the movie, which would also solve that girl’s money problems.

Notes

• Each story had it’s own individual title.
• One story was reprinted in Debbie and likely influenced the later Debbie story Madame Marlova Remembers

Appeared

• The Pupils of Madame Petrov – Bunty: #205 (16 December 1961) – (?)
• The Pupils of Madame Petrov – Bunty: #292 (17 August 1963) – #299 (5 October 1963)

Other Appearances:

• No Ballet for Belinda – Bunty Annual 1963
• The Dancer from the Isles – Bunty Annual 1965 [Art: George Ramsbottom]
  • Reprinted in Bunty Golden Age Classic Stories (Vol. 2)

List of Stories

• The Sleepy Ballerina – Bunty: #205
• Forbidden to Dance – Bunty: #206
• No Friends for Freda – Bunty: #207
• The Girl with No Friends – Bunty: #292
• No Heart to Dance – Bunty: #293
• It’s Wrong to Run Away – Bunty: #294
• The Wild One – Bunty: #295
• Determined to Dance – Bunty: #296
  • Reprinted Debbie: #139
• The Disobedient Dancer – Bunty: #297
• The Cobbler’s Magic – Bunty: #298
• The Tuck-Shop Ballet – Bunty: #299