Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following program will be played at the Pops concert tonight, starting at 8.15 o'clock: French Military March Saint-Saens Ballet Suite, "Nutcracker" Tchaikovsky Overture to "Rienzi" Wagner Excerpts from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlioz On the Steppes of Central Asia Borodin "Fountains of Rome," symphonic poem Respigli Overture to "Le Maschere" Mascagni Dance of the Waves Catalani Overture to Silican Vespers Verdi
...soft stillness of the mountains. A succession of dark generals led their ebony soldiers to cruel and bewildering victories. Ugly Toussaint, who beat a Napoleonic army, was captured and sent far away to die. Clumsy Jean Jaques Dessalines made himself emperor of the black island and imported two ballet masters to teach him how to dance; before he had time to learn, a soldier murdered him. Henry Christophe, the billiard marker, during all this time had done more than watch the sudden noisy game of war that his people were playing in the lazy island. He had learned...
...Taft's young niece Elinor Herron, also came into the public eyes last week, when she paraded at a Chicago fashion show in silk bloomers and a smoking jacket. It was her debut as a mannequin. Miss Herron, versatile, has studied ballet dancing in Paris intends to be an architect...
...through the south to the Pacific. Reviewing the home season, Chicago operaddicts agreed that it had been in no way notable for novelties and revivals. Monna Vanna, Sapho, Linda Di Chamounix, doubtful additions to the repertoire, had apparently displaced proved productions of Der Rosenkavalier, Don Giovanni, Pelleas. The new ballet had cavorted around in better style than the old one; but there had been an orchestral slump, in part produced by the new sunken pit. In the business offices, there was no waiting for esthetic failures. President Samuel Insull shook the box-office records together and discovered that...
...Circus to match the moment in which Actor Chaplin, with all the fine frenzy of a gourmet dissecting a brace of broiled quail, ate a Christmas dinner consisting of an old, very tough, boiled boot; or that in which he amused his imaginary guests with a miniature ballet dance, furnished by two forks, each shod with a roll. But it would be very difficult not to laugh at Charles Chaplin when he finds that the wire is broken which was to have preserved his equilibrium on the high, dangerous tightrope; and when, to add to this horrible predicament, three vicious...