RUSSIAN BALLET.
Season Opens on; Saturday.
-No! fewer! than 15 magnificent ballets" are.to be.; presented during the; approaching season; of Colonelideißasil's ■Moiite" Carlo Russian Ballet, -Which; will begin at the'iNew;. Opera HPuse with' two gala performances:. on'; 'Saturday/ afternppn and;:eyenirig.;; ■ The-J. IC^Williamspn; Ltd.;: : regardstthe engagement or the Monte Carlo Russian Bal let: as' the imbst important^and most; ex-; pensive it ; has . ever::undertaken,'-'and it >must ..be gratifying : to: the; directors to know that New Zealanders'have'appreciated .it as isuch." ■> This they demonstrated: during:the., phenomenally > v suf cessf ui:season in Auckland; and in each of'the "provincial, to wnsi in: which' the) company- hasv:already: : ';appeared;the; ■theatres have/proved;quite incapable Of accommodatingiYtheAW ■ numbers ■ which .have endeavoured-to obtain admission: That; Wellington,-.;,t00i 'is .looking: forward, keenly.^ to ; advent;'of ithe. Russian ■Ballet,- has i;bee''nV indicated at. the1 D.1.C., where; the' ,;bpx.: officials^; seven with increased: staff, ;haye:;b>eriPiwbrking;)at top. speed since the 'plans; were, opened on' ' last Thepreliminary ;bpoking here exceeds? that record-ed-!for^ther,season":iii 'Auckland;.'and [that":beat all .previous bookings; for J., t Cv(^yfiUiamson^XM:ii attractions^: \-v-';The'.l p.rpgramnjesT to be presented; here are those ;iri"!.which ; ";thei company, ; scored successes inlLbnaisn'and^Eurppe^;The first'one, "to^be^presented on"thetfirst four" nights of.the; season, will include; "Lies' -Sylphides,"- "Scheherazade," and '■Le Manage D'Aurpre";(Aurora's Wedding),, •- and ?,the> second programme, ■ tp' be. presented/on.-Thursday. Friday, and1 'Saturday/nights;' April 1, 2, and 3, and. on::1 Saturday/ afternoon, April 3, includes "CarnayalJ" "Les Presages," and' "La Boutique ;Faritasque" (the Fantasitic:;Toy;,Sh;6p). ?. •„.,'.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 6
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225RUSSIAN BALLET. Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 70, 24 March 1937, Page 6
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