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...Lincoln Kirstein's article on photography shows a keen awareness of the inherent limitations of the art, and the dangers to which it is likely to be a prey when it tries to peach on the preserves of landscape or portrait painting...
Eight years ago there were two Harvard freshmen who used to stay up nights to moon over ballet. One was short, one was tall but both were rich. Edward M. M. Warburg was Banker Felix Warburg's son. Lincoln Kirstein's father ran Filene's department store in Boston. At Harvard Warburg and Kirstein started a Society for Contemporary Art. After graduation their violent interest in Modern Art continued. Last winter they finally fulfilled their youthful ambition by founding the School of American Ballet...
...Hartford last week, at its first public exhibition, the Warburg-Kirstein School presented Alma Mater, a rip-roaring burlesque for which Edward Warburg wrote the scenario and Kay Swift, his comely cousin-by-marriage, the music.* Harvardman Warburg picked Yale as the scene for his collegiate horseplay. Against a backdrop depicting Portal 6 ?A of the Yale Bowl cavort John Held Jr. characters in John Held Jr. costumes. Girls appear in short leopard-skin jackets, decorated with chrysanthemums and blue satin ribbons, while Kay Swift's music blends bits of "Boola-Boola" with off-stage cheers...
Alma Mater had a worthy performance. All the dancers made sure, swift pictures, designed by George Balanchine, the crack Russian choreographer whom the young sponsors imported. But critical members of the Hartford audience agreed that Edward Warburg and Lincoln Kirstein needed more time to perfect their dream of a perfect ballet. Undistinguished dancers can frolic in a burlesque like Alma Mater. But earlier in the same evening a more conventional and exacting Mozartiana made it apparent that a year is not long enough to build up a technic comparable to that of the long-trained Russians...
Instruction will be by means of lectures, assigned readings and discussions of selected cases. Arrangements have been made with the Baker Library, the Boston Public Library, and the Kirstein Business Branch on City Avenue for use of reading references...