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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original publisher's multicolored paper wrappers with staple binding. Illustration on front cover features a gilt rectangular background with black lettering. No date, circa 1946. 9" x 12." Unpaginated, all pages, complete. Illustrations in black-and-white and color (mostly in black-and-white), complete. Included are many advertisements for a variety of products (mostly perfumes) and businesses. Pages are very clean and intact except for moderate age toning and slight wear to extremities. Covers are very clean and intact except for light age toning, slight wear to extremities, and a few wrinkles. A Very Good copy. This is an original program for the Original Ballet Russe for Season 1946-1947. The following are some of the contents. Black-and-white photographic illustrations of ballet dancers Rosella Hightower, Olga Morosova, Tatiana Stepanova, Genevieve Moulin, Nina Stroganova, Sirene Adjemova, Roman Jasinsky, Vladimir Dokoudovsky, Oleg Tupine, Kenneth MacKenzie, George Skibine, Marian Ladre, Kiril Vassilkovsky, Margaret Banks, Tatiana Bechenova, Natalia Conlon, Marilia Franco, Lara Obidenna, Moussia Larkina, April Olrich, Carlotta Pereira, Rozsika Sabo, Marjorie Tallchief, Anna Miltonova, Alpheus Koon, Raul Celada, and Miguel Terekoff. Partial repertoire (ballets the company performs) with summaries for some of the ballets. Article ("Fashions from the Ballet") by Eleanor Lambert. Article ("Talking About Dancers") by Ann Barzel. Brief biographies of some of the dancers is a "Who's Who" section. Some of the advertised products or businesses: Elizabeth Arden, Charbert, Helena Rubinstein, Farnsworth Television & Radio Corporation, Parfums d'Artimon, Stradivari, Marie Earle, Chanel, Flexees, Leigh, Corday, Muse, Bemberg, Mutation Mink Breeders Association, Ciro, House of Gourinelli, Magnavox, and Seagram's. The Original Ballet Russe was founded in 1931 by Rene Blum and Wassily de Basil (also known as Colonel W. de Basil). This ballet company was one of the successors of Ballets Russes which had dissolved after Blum and de Basil had parted ways. De Basil then took ownership of the Original Ballet Russe and Blum went on to found his own company, Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Impresario Sol Hurok managed both companies. The company was active until 1947 when it disbanded (there was a brief revival in 1951, but the company closed for the last time in 1952).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Program Publications, inc. January 1946 Binding: Trade Paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Profusely illustrated souvenir program featuring dancers and set designs of the Ballets Russes for the 1947-47 season. Laid in are four loose plates on magazine stock featuring large photographs and biographical sketches of Alicia Markova, Anton Dolin, André Eglevsky, and Lubov Tchernicheva.Ballets this season include Francesca da Rimini, Constantia, Aurora's Wedding, Graduation Ball, Scheherazade, The Firebird, Cain and Abel, Fantastic Symphony, Yara, Le Spectre de la Rose, Mute Wife, Choreartium, Swan Lake, Prince Igor, San Sebastian, and Les Sylphides. Among choreographers, there's Balanchine, Nijinsky, and Massine (among others). Set and costume designs (which are shown here in watercolor) include contributions from Bakst, Derain, Gontcharova, Gris, Miró, Rouault, and de Chirico. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Quarto (12 x 9 inches; 305 x 230 mm), [80 pages, in stapled, illustrated wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION: Wrappers rubbed and creased, pages toned, slight musty smell. About Very Good overall.