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...assembled talent which spoke for the best in music, painting, dancing. Pavlova was with him for a time, but she soon formed her own touring company, so built around her own personality that she succeeded in spite of ragged musical accompaniment, shoddy, second-rate scenery. The Diaghilev company was peerless so long as it had Tamara Karsavina and Nijinsky who, according to Author Kirstein, established a landmark more with his stark choreography (L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, Le Sacre du Printemps) than with his sensational leaps or his unsurpassed entrechats...
...visited there in 1900, once by the itinerant German Grand Opera in 1930. The German company had singers who were either worn out or third-rate. The scenery was shoddy, the orchestra ragged. For its first home-grown Ring, the San Francisco Opera is spending $80,000, importing such peerless Wagnerians as Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, Tenor Lauritz Melchior, Baritone Friedrich Schorr. Some $40,000 has been invested in scenery alone. There is a horrible, life-like dragon and a special new cloud machine which projects photographs of actual clouds on the backdrop...
...Jumbo is no cheap production. Mr. Rose got the peerless team of Rodgers & Hart to write his score, able Albert Johnson to do his sets and to refurnish (cost: $40,000) the fusty interior of North America's best-known show house (rental: $104,000 a year). He hired actors like Jimmy Durante, Arthur Sinclair, Blanche Ring for his star parts. And, catching them when they needed money, he contracted with Playwrights Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur to write a libretto on which he could string his circus acts, stars and tunes. Messrs. Hecht & MacArthur repaired for a fortnight last...
...When Nijinsky, Karsavina, Rubinstein danced in the peerless Diaghilev Ballet, it was more often than not to works created by Michel Fokine. Today Fokine runs a dancing school in Manhattan. His dancers, who bolstered a faltering season last summer at the Lewisohn Stadium, were again sent to its rescue this month. They performed old Fokine favorites, introduced some new ballets. By this week, when they were to wind up the engagement, the Fokine dancers had impressed critics as no more than mediocre. There was, however, one exception-22-year-old Paul Haakon (pronounced hawk-on). In Scheherazade...
...past three years Paris has been dictating that the evening neck line must move up and up in front. To Queen Mary this is stuff and nonsense. She can best display the Empire's peerless jewels on a low-necked evening gown, and in Her Majesty's opinion other women should employ the same basis for such jewels as they have to show. This year the Lord Chamberlain has been dutifully hinting the royal pleasure to dowagers and debutantes, but with scant result at the season's first two Royal Courts. Last week the Queen-Empress...