Word: montee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Two years ago the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe arrived in the U. S. to present Russian ballet as it had not been given since the days of Diaghilev and the great Nijinsky. In Manhattan the troupe played in a small side-street theatre. A few devotees went night after night...
In the repertoire this season there are 25 ballets. 13 more than in the first winter. In the company there are 65 dancers, several of whom still travel with their fathers or mothers. In charge of them all is Colonel Vassily de Basil, a onetime Cossack officer who was so...
Ballet enthusiasm has become epidemic. Young girls see the Monte Carlo dancers and go home to practice standing on their toes. In Manhattan addicts who call themselves balletomanes have organized a club. Books on the ballet appear with increasing frequency, give new glamor to the names of great oldtime dancers...
In the Alps, Charles S. Houston '36 and Arthur Emmons '36 scaled the southern face of Monte Rosa, blazing a new route to the top.
For British observers, the results of all polo between England and the U. S. for the past 14 years have been uniformly painful. Last week's game was no exception. Against the best-mounted U. S. team in the Open, the inadequacy of Hurlingham's string of ponies...