BOOKING ARRANGEMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 19, 24 January 1939, Page 9

BOOKING ARRANGEMENTS.

RUSSIAN BALLET SEASON. Full details are announced to-day regarding the opening of plans on Thursday for the first seven nights of the season of the Covent Garden Russian Ballet Company. New supplies of illustrated brochures, giving complete arrangements, have been obtained, and these are now available at His Majesty's Theatre. Out of the 110 members of the company the most outstanding is, perhaps, Irina Baronova, who has been hailed in innumerable books and articles as the most accomplished, the most versatile ballerina of her day. She excels in the pure classicism. of "Swan Lake,'' the romanticism of "Les Sylphides," or the rich humour of the vamp in such a ballet as "Union Pacific." Trina Baronova was born in Russia during the revolution, but educated in Rumania where her parents were forced to emigrate. She came to Paris at the age of eight and joined the school of the great Russian ballerina. Olga Preobrajenska. She was an original member of the company, joining at the oa'ly age of 13. After less than six month* in the corps de ballet, she wa« --"Voted as premiere danseuse. ajid «mi the first night of the company's first l.n'ulon season shr danced the leading role in "Les Sylphides," "Les Presatres." whk-'i she created, and since tlfti I"-'- i»i-;;iiess as an aitha« been Vliing, setting a standard for all contemporary dancers.