Word: balieff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chauve Souris. With the rest of fashionable America, Nitka Balieff and his Kussian troupe departed last Spring for a Parisian Summer. There they entertained Americans homesick for Broadway, Russians wearying for Petrograd, French wearying of their tawdry native entertainments. In the course of the trip Balieff forgot a bit more of his Russian, his English improved, his comedy became a trifle more intelligible...
Will the Argentine Supplant Balieff and King Tut in Popular Favor? It is a subconscious maxim with Mr. Lee Shubert, Mr. George White and Mr. Florenz Ziegfeld that " - the things you will learn from the yellow an' brown They'll 'elp you a lot with the white." They seek glittering material for their revues from the life of other worlds. Their stages became hothouses where strange exotic plants, emerald, gold and scarlet, are bought across the seas for a brief blossoming. For 20 years American producing gardeners have been transplanting color, sound and movement - so great...
...strong reaction has set in among Parisian critics against the Russian fad (Balieff, Diaghileff, Rostov and a score of imitators...
...Balieff's Chauve Souris, now in its fourth series, has played over 500 performances...