Word: debasil
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...opera house that he was its new director, the doorman laughed in the boy's face, refused to let him in until a city official arrived to identify him. His next big job-and the one that eventually brought him to Dallas-was conducting for Colonel DeBasil's helter-skelter ballet company, which, says Dorati, "became so unoriginal they had to call themselves the Original Ballet Russe...
...Colonel deBasil's Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo opened last night at the Opera House and continues there through Saturday evening. New numbers in the repertoire include "Coq d'Or," based on Pushkin's fairy tale with music from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera of the same name, "Francesea da Rimini," which is set to music by Tschaikowsky, and "Lex Dioux Mendiantes" with music by Handel aranged by Sir Thomas Beecham...
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