Marvel to the U. S. has been San Francisco's operatic behavior all through Depression. Its seasons have been brief but even with expensive, imported singers they have usually paid for themselves. Two years ago the handsome municipal opera house was dedicated. Later Impresario Gaetano Merola stocked it with chorus and ballet schools, the only U. S. organizations of 'the kind outside New York.
To head the ballet school Impresario Merola wisely chose Adolph Bolm who used to dance in the peerless Diaghilev troupe with Karsavina, Mordkin, Nijinsky. What the school has accomplished in less...
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