BALLET DANCING
NEW ZEALANDER RETURNING SCOPE IN DOMINION (From Our Own Correspondent) (By Air Mail) LONDON, ApL 20. Planning to open a school for the teaching of ballet and subsequently to form a company to produce ballets in New Zealand* Mr Maurice Costello, formerly of Oamaru, will leave England on April 23 by the Oronsay, «n route to the Dominion. Mr Costello has spent the past nine years studying and performing in England and on the Continent He took lessons from leading Russian teacher* in Paris and London, and has appeared in a number of London productions. These included “Casanova” and “Tin Golden Toy ” at the Coliseum, the successful musical romance “ Balalaika’’ at His Majesty’s, in which he did a solo Russian dance, and Mr C. B. Cochrane’s “Paganini" at the Lyceum. He has also appeared at the London Casino, Cafe Anglais, and the Paradise Club in London. He has, danced solo at a concert at the Royal Albert Hall, and has toured extensively on the Continent. He visited Germany with the “.Ballet Russe de Paris ” Company, and has appeared in Paris at the Moulin Rouge and in Vienna, Budapest, Madrid, Barcelona, and Brussels. ....... Mr Costello plans to spend a few weeks studying in Egypt on the way to New Zealand. After founding R. school in the Dominion, he hopes to create new ballets suitable for production in New Zealand by local dancers. Before adopting his, present stage name, Mr Costello was Mr Maurice Wilton, and danced under that name in Oamaru, Christchurch, and Dunedin.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23500, 14 May 1938, Page 18
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