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...past, some kind of free entertainment was presented on a specially built stage every evening of the Festival. The celebrated dancers Andre Eglevsky and Mia Slavenska, with the Robert Joffrey Theatre Ballet, gave four performances. The Joffrey Ballet, consisting of eight young dancers, is a good company but not a fine one. All eight dance well by themselves, but they have not yet achieved the precision of ensemble that marks the best troupes. Eglevsky and Slavenska are both first-rank artists; but, in both of their duos, drawn from Tschaikovsky, they proved disappointing: Eglevsky had nothing to do except...
...first half of the Monday-Wednesday program was not so impressive as the second, since it included two very traditional and flowery numbers. Pas des Deesses was choreographed by Robert Joffrey, a young and talented dance creator who in this instance failed to get his message across. The ballet could have been very funny, since Joffrey took the standard set-up of one male and three girls--starting off together, then each little ballerina getting her chance to dance alone with the man, and finally the latter liking his three girls so much that he keeps them all--and apparently...
...Botanical Club. Recent Investigations on the Sequolas. (Illustrated with the Stereopticon.) Professor Joffrey, Room 12, University Museum...