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DE BASIL'5 DrREerFRoM covE"t .+*PiT_flti[i,"[flusE .AND rHE ALHAMBRA FamousArtists of the Ballet whose names are familiar in London, New York, and Europe, head the companyJ including LEONWO;ZIKOWSKY VALENTINA BLINOVA HELENEKIRSOVA NINA RAIEVSKA NATHALIE BRANITZKA MIRA DIMINA TA,MARA.TEHINAROVA NINA YOUCHKEVITCH NINA COLOVINA soNlAwolzrKowsKA IRENABONDIREVA IRINA VASSILIEVA MOUSSIAKOR!TNSKA ANF{A SKARFA hIELENEPOLOUCHINA VANDA GROSSEN OLGA VALEVSKA VERA LIPSKA MONA DIMIDOVA ANNA SEVERSKA BETTYSOUVOROVA NINA NATOVA LELIAROUSSOVA MARY CA,RINA TATIANA MOURA,VTET'A HEL[NEANTONOYA XENiA KALINOVSKA ROLANDEUERARD THADEESLAVINSKY IGORYOUSKEVITCH VALENTINFROMAN ,EAN HOYFR VALERY SHAEVSKY BIRCERBARTHOLIN MARIAN \MINTER THOMASARMOUR SERGEUNCER MILOSRIST|C IASHF DOtOTtNE DMITRI TOVAROFF YATENTIN BAIINf SERCEVLADIMIROFF SAVVA ANDREIEFT ALEXISFRANK lv{aitrede Ballet: LEON WOIZIKOWSKY RegisseurGeneral: IEAN HOYFR FUI.L OPERATICORCH ESTRA EONNUETORS: |ASCHA HORENSTETN IVAN ELAYTON T, C. WILLIAMSON L'I'D. NTAGAZINE WOVEN POPLIN 1016 \\'O\/EN BRO,ADCI-OTH -^l-rzl6 I\{EW PATTERNS The range of fine shirt designs at Henry Buck's has never "quiet." been so wide as now. Some are Some are decidedly otherwise. But every one is colorful new . different and exclusive, in both pattern and shade. to Henry Buck's. "HB" !) These 8-Point Shirts are made from pre-shrunk !) woven materials. They will never shrink nor fade" IF i) any should ever fail to give satisfaction, F{enry Buek's t) will replace it without questron. r) TNKT$UCKS d 5\ryAN5TOD.ISTR.EET "Where MEN Sh4" :::e J. C. ITILLIAMSON LTD. MAGAZINE 7 HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN BALLET Ia' URINC the past thirty years the Russian had added so much brilliancv to the Courts of Ballet has become synomymous the the Louis. l) -with highest standard in the field of choreo- great graphy. To find the reason for this we have to Russia was the first country in which consider that while the ballet, as an art, had lost composers like Tchaikovsky, Glazounoff, its olace in most of the countries where it had Tcherphine, Stravinsky, and others began to flourished formerlv. it found a home in Russia, supply their talent to composing special music where it was welcomed and oreserved in all its for the ballet, and it is also in Russia that purity and beauty. artists of the calibre of Leon Bakst, Benois, Korovine, Anisfeld, and others, used their Like every art worthy of its name, the ballet brush in designs for the theatrical scenery and needs a school and a Dermanent theatre for en- costumes. shrining and handing down the best traditions from generation to generation. Choreography and Music. The School of the lmperial Ballet at 5t. This union between choreography in its best of the Petersburg was founded at the end {orm, and the music o( great composers, with century, and from its inception was eighteenth the colouring, scenery and costumes of great in the hands of the most celebrated French mast€rs, resulted in the performances of the choreographists, who cultivated French tradi- opera and ballet at St. Petersburg and Moscow tions on Russian soil. The Ballet thus trans- planted on to a foreign soil quickly became being quite a revelation to those who visited acclimatised to its new surroundings, and those cities. Foreigners were astonished and assimilated much of the atmosphere of the new confessed they had never before seen anything home. Under the influence of the Slav race, approaching the amazing brilliancy and pure performances. it became transformed into something more beauty of these perfect and more completely original than ever The lmperial Russian Theatres, which for betore. over a hundred years set themselves the task Rapid Progress Made. to develop and place on a high pinnacle the art of the Dance, now no longer exist, and with The progress which Russian dancers-men them has disappeared the home where the under the direction and women 6lika-rn3js traditions of this glorious past were so faith- in of these French masters was so rapid that, fully fostered and preserved. Happily for the dan- the forties of last century such celebrated Ballet and for all lovers of this art, while the cers as Taglioni and Elssler visiting Russia, lmperial Theatres were still in existence, the and they had found there excellent troupes public outside Russia had the good fortune to pleazure in dancing in such worthy company. become acquainted with its achievements, presence for On the other hand, the several first during the Russian season in Paris of the great in seasons of these foreign artists their Diaghilev Ballet in 191 l, when the best ballets and midst, was a matter of interest consider- of Fokine were presenled, f ramed in scenery artists, who learnt able benefit to the Russian which was the work of the best Russian oaint- true 'when much from seeing them, while remaining ers, and again later Anna Pavlova with The to the best features of their own school. her company bringing scenery by Bakst, Anis- and made Russian Baflet flourished exceedingly, f eld, Korovine and others, travelled the world y€ars such rapid strides that within thirty it over with her ballet enterprise. was able to turn out such artists as the bril- liant dancers lstomrna and Mouravieva. Within The art of dancing as expressed in the form a century the Russian ballet was acclaimed as and decor of the Russian school. is to-dav the first in the world, having completely super- most vital in the world, for it has that inter- seded the ltalian Ballet which had a life his- national appeal which alone can make any tory behind it, and the French Ballet, which artistic endeavorreally great and lasting. J. C. \TILLIAMSON.LTD. MAGAZINE THE CORONATION No greoteroverture to the stirringevents of Londoncould be obtolnedthon the vovoqe to Englondvio Suezby o P. & o. RoyolMoil Liner,for by this routethe possenger-is introducedto severolBritish orrtoosfs - (]616*bo, Bomboy,Aden, Port Sudon,Molto, Gibroltor- ond on id"o"oiir.,!-*'g.iiJ"Jl"-i'el" i' "ii.i."a. 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