ACCIDENT IN SYDNEY.
BALLERINA SPRAINS TENDON. RETURNING TO EUROPE. '• % Having sprained a tendon in her instep, Mile. Olga Spessiva, prima bellerina of the Russian Ballet Company, who has been resting for a few weeks, will not rejoin the company, but will leave for Europe within a week, says a Sydney paper. Her Sydney doctor prescribed a short rest for her foot, and Mile, Spessiva anticipated that the voyage will completely restore her. She will take tip her former position as prima ballerina at the Grand Opera House on arrival at Paris.
During the closing week of the Sydney season she was In great pain when she danced, and was not able to appear during the last five performances.-
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Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19462, 29 December 1934, Page 15 (Supplement)
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