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...rich profusion: Sculptor Hoffman's plaques of Pavlova and such of her studies of ceremonial dancers as the Mongolian Bowman (see cut); designs and sketches by such famed Europeans as Christian Bérard, Mariette Lydis, Giorgio De Chirico, Andre Derain. Pablo Picasso, Georges Roualt, Léon Bakst; drawings made by Nijinsky in his Swiss sanatorium; masks from Africa and masks by W. T. Benda; sculpture by Rodin, sketches of Isadora Duncan by Abraham Walkowitz; photographs by top-flight Austrian, Swedish, French and U. S. photographers. The handsomely printed program announced for Dec. 12 an "Evening of Ballet...
...choreographer who may be useful to Colonel de Basil when veteran Massine departs. The troupe's three other new ballets were all done by him, performed in London during the summer. The Gods Go ABegging, music by Handel, is an old Diaghilev work, with old scenery by Bakst. With décor by Pierre Roy, French modernist, The Amorous Lion is based on a fable by La Fontaine which begins with this couplet: Love, love, when you invade our hearts, That moment common sense departs. Lichine patterned Francesca da Rimini after an episode in Dante, just as Tchaikovsky used...
...summary: HARVARD ST. GEORGE'S Legg, r.f. l.g., Smith Bakst, r.f. l.g., Chester Lutz, l.f. r.g., E. Thayer Stobbelaar, l.f. c., J. Thayer White, c. l.f., Dorrance Bird, c. l.f., Bell Maguire, r.g. r.f., Lipincott Kothe, r.g. Stewart, r.g. Cordingly, l.g. Perry, l.g. Hinchliff...
...basketball team will meet Milton Academy at Milton at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The starting line up includes Bird, Bakst, Humes, Kothe, and White...
Opening ballets were The Three-Cornered Hat, Scheherazade and Aurora's Wedding, all from the Diaghilev repertory. Settings were by Picasso, Bakst and Benois. all Diaghilev artists. First night cheers went to the youthful ballerinas, Irina Baronova, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Tamara Toumanova. Leonide Massine, the maitre de ballet, was still the surest-footed dancer. David Lichine and Yurek Shavelevsky made the most sensational leaps. After twelve days in Manhattan, the troupe takes to the road again, visits no cities, gives 212 performances in the U. S. and Canada...