The gentleman all in pink who soars through the young girl's room (Le Spectre de la Rose), the fantastically white-faced can-can dancer in La Boutique Fantasque, the jolly hussy of a street dancer in Le Beau Danube, the slim bluebird and her lightly-leaping partner in Aurora's Wedding—these favorite characters of U. S. ballet fans were once more on the stage of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week. They were personified by Paul Petroff, Léonide Massine, Alexandra Danilova, Tatiana Riabouchinska and David Lichine of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, starting a six-month U....
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