Lucia Chase lost a lot of money.

Lucia Chase "was very rich," Miss de Mille said, "but you can't go on losing that much money."

Ms. Easton's chronicle of her continuing verbal wars with Lucia Chase, a company director, are hilarious.

Mr. Smith, in fact, is being recalled to the same post he held from 1945 to '80 as co-director with Lucia Chase.

I'm afraid it was Lucia Chase, its late director, who I sensed was jealous of me.

Like them, she came to prominence when the company was directed by Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith.

True, it had at its helm for many years the redoubtable Lucia Chase, who founded the troupe with Richard Pleasant in 1940.

I was one of its principal dancers during the 1960's and became very close to Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith, the company's former directors.

Oliver Smith, who was Ballet Theater's director with Lucia Chase, from 1945 to 1980, introduced many of the historical highlights as he had done before.

He spoke to Lucia Chase, the director of Ballet Theater, and told her that she should give me time to work.