Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sesquicentennial the royal party attended a ballet performance by the troupe of the once tolerably notable Mile. Loie Fuller. The box was so located that Her Majesty could not see the stage. The Sesquicentennial Management announced ruefully that it had not been able to sell, the boxes at $55 each, as had been expected...
...Throughout the week it was reported that Mile. Fuller and her ballet will perform in the chief cities to be visited by Her Majesty who will allegedly attend some 30 times the ballet's performance of her fairy tale, The Lily of Life...
Fifty per cent of the funds so obtained will go to a somewhat nebulous U. S. charity, the Mothers' Memorial Foundation. The remaining 50% will go to the ballet of Mile. Fuller, who originally attracted the notice and reputedly the friendship of Queen Marie by journeying to Rumania and producing there the Queen's several fairy tale dramas...
...Manhattanites paid up to $1,000 for boxes at the Metropolitan Opera House when Her Majesty attended there last week a performance by the Fuller ballet...
...ballet suite, "Chout", follows, and comprises four parts: (a) Danse des filles des buffons, (b) Dans la chambre a coucher du marchand, (c) La jeune femme est devenue chevre, and (d) Danse finale. Prokofleff wrote the ballet in 1915, but it was not produced until 1921. The music is quite colorful throughout, and might even be characterized as rowdy in spots...