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This year it rose upon Frances Alda, Beniamino Gigli, Giuseppe de Luca, Adam Didur, upon dancer a la Russe Adolph Bolm. In former years it has risen upon Caruso, Ruffo, Martinelli, Galli-Curci, upon famed and glorious chanteur a la Russe Chaliapin...
Petrushka, a ballet about a silly, tragic rag doll with a soul, by Igor Stravinsky, was revived last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. There was only one Russian in the cast. He, Adolph Bolm, took the part of the sawdust Caliban, capered foolishly, pathetically, to his special tune- a fanfare for two trumpets a minor second apart. Rosina Galli was the limber ballerina. At the end of the performance, Mr. Stravinsky was discovered to be present, hailed before the curtain, presented with an overstuffed floral wreath, according to Metropolitan tradition...
...Adolf Bolm and the Ballet Intime of which he is both director and leader, will give a performance at the Shubert Theatre this afternoon at 3 o'clock for the benefit of the American Friends of Musicians in France and the Municipal School of Music at Rheims. Among other numbers will be John Alden Carpenter's jazz-pantomime "Krazy Kat" after the cartoon of that name. Mr. Bolm has acquired prominence by his work in the Imperial Russian Ballet and has won considerable success in this country for his performances of "Coq d'Or" and "Petrouchka" with the Metropolitan Opera...