Word: balieff
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...produced by Leon Greanin) stirred up memories rather than reactions. It evoked the gay Chauve-Souris revues of the '20s, when the Parade of the Wooden Soldiers seemed the most rollicking of tunes and Katinka the most "Rahsshan" of maidens, and the late Master of Ceremonies Nikita Balieff talked unbelievably dreadful English with unforgettably droll results. Katinka and the Wooden Soldiers are still on hand, but Balieff unhappily...
...agreeably, but never gets anywhere. It lacks everything exciting: the tune that can make a show, the performer that can stop one, the pace that can keep one spinning, the verve that can make one soar. As master of ceremonies, Producer Greanin has almost as heavy an accent as Balieff had, but he has not nearly so .light a touch...
...famed for damning the expense (he spent more than $600,000, most of it borrowed, producing The Miracle, went bankrupt when it folded in Dallas). At various times he represented Eleanora Duse, Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden, brought to the U.S. for the first time the Diaghilev Ballet, Balieff's Chauve-Souris, the Moscow Art Theater...
...named Raphael makes a concertina, scarcely larger than a sausage, whisper like a violin. A magician named De Roze refreshes his audience by pouring, from a pitcher which appears to con tain pure water, small sniffs of whiskey, benedictine, gin, tomato juice or absinthe. Between turns, bland oldtime Nikita Balieff makes impudent speeches in the "English lahngwidge...
...Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky; its surging choreography-Dancer Semenoff had taken part, close friend and assistant of Director Michel Fokine. When the Revolution changed things, Semenoff escaped through Poland, settled like many other emigrés in Paris. He went to the U. S. as ballet master with Nikita Balieff's Chauve-Souris in 1923, opened a dance studio in Cleveland seven years ago. Thereafter he saw few of his oldtime friends. Unmarried, he lived alone...