Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ballet Troupe Pleases...
...those who like the ballet, the numbers performed by the Pavley-Oukrainsky troupe are exceptional. The stage effects for this act are unusually attractive, and provide a delightful setting for several very pleasing numbers. Contrasted to the aesthetic appeal of the ballet is the act by Corinne Tilton, whose imitation of a "reshpectaful gurl on a shbig date" is uproarious and brings down the house...
...punch of most modern music is in the tickets. Exception: Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky. He is always "good box-office." Manhattan's League of Composers, with Stravinsky's half-hour ballet, Les Noces, on the program (first U. S. production), preceded only by a 17th Century academic tidbit, last week drew a $25,000 audience to the Metropolitan Opera House, the smartest audience since the opening of the opera season last autumn...
...which will be rendered by an orchestra of 80 directed by Alfredo Casells: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Air Bach Dance-Suite for String Orchestra Purcell-Bliss Overture to "Oberon" Weber Prelude and Love-Death from and Isolde" "Tristan Wagner "The Fountains of Rome," Symphonic Poem Respighi "Ballet of the Hours," from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Waltz, "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Second Hungarian Rhapsody Lisst
...American Ted Shawn, the Japanese Michio Ito and the German Harald Kreutzberg. Kreutzberg, who, according to many, leads them all today, is 24. He was once a designer for a small fashion magazine, then a dance pupil of the modernist Mary Wigman, then head of the Hanover Opera ballet. He came first to the U. S. last year with Max Reinhardt's players and last fortnight he came again, with Danseuse Yvonne Georgi, for a series of performances under the management of that doughty oldtime stage-lady, Elisabeth Marbury...