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Recently the Russian choreographer Igor Schwezoff brought The Poppy up to date. With a deft tour-en-l'air of the choreographic party line, Schwezoff abolished the evil British commander, converted Tai Hoa's murderer into a Japanese, added a British and a U.S. sailor (both very agreeable fellows), ended with the murder, not of Tai Hoa, but of the Japanese. The Manhattan audience did not seem to mind these alterations. As the Internationale burst from the City Center's orchestra, the crowd broke into cheers...
RUSSIAN SOMERSAULT - Igor Schwezoff -Harper ($3.50). The head of a ballet school in Amsterdam tells of his life in Russia during the Revolution and after. Son of an English-Russian mother and a German-Russian father, Dancer Schwezoff had to perfect his plies between visits from the police. Written with little art, Russian Somersault won the $5,000 Hoder & Stoughton autobiography prize in England...
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