Word: diaghilev
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...Windsor tie), he was famed for damning the expense (he spent more than $600,000, most of it borrowed, producing The Miracle, went bankrupt when it folded in Dallas). At various times he represented Eleanora Duse, Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden, brought to the U.S. for the first time the Diaghilev Ballet, Balieff's Chauve-Souris, the Moscow Art Theater...
...reunited, were the "baby stars" who seven winters ago, when they were in their teens, began making the U. S. ballet-conscious. Then their director was an ex-Cossack colonel named Wassily de Basil, who founded the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe in the great tradition of the late Serge Diaghilev, named his troupe for the little principality where it first danced. Last week, after many complicated schisms in the Russian ballet, the troupe was called the Original Ballet Russe. Colonel de Basil was still its director. But its boss, who hoped to keep it going in Manhattan through the winter...
...lacked pretty young stars and its ensemble would not make the Rockettes jealous, but it had two of the world's best ballerinas: dark, svelte British Alicia Markova, who excels in classic ballets like Giselle and Swan Lake, and dark, vivacious Alexandra Danilova, who was in the old Diaghilev company, Danilova -once married to Massine's rival choreographer Georges Balanchine-dances with a gaiety and precision which belie the fact that, in her late 30s she is old for a ballerina...
...filling and breath-taking qualities, the Ballet Russe has its shortcomings-shortcomings the more grave because much U.S. money has gone into the ballet, notably from such backers as Edsel Ford and Yeast Scion Julius Fleischmann. Whereas Diaghilev was imaginative, ahead of his time, and not above shocking his audiences. Mr. Hurok's two troupes make little effort at even keeping up to date. Massine's ballet, St. Francis, whose music by Paul Hindemith is among the best in the modern theatre, has slipped from the repertory; Sol Hurok does not like it. Among the new ballets...
...with spectacle. Certain naive ballet companies, too, are experimenting with dances on American themes. This may become a successful genre, and a vital branch of our culture. Until it does, the ballet of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, the Original Ballet Russe, and the other remnants of the Diaghilev troupe, remains here on suffrage, kept alive by a demand for spectacle of a highbrow, somewhat snobbish, sort...