Original Program - "Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo; Season 1945-46"

Original publisher's multicolored paper wrappers with staple binding. Illustration on front cover features a green background with abstracted male and female figures. No date, circa 1945. 9" x 12." Unpaginated, all pages, complete. Illustrations in black-and-white and color (mostly in black-and-white), complete (includes four color illustrations of set designs). Included are many advertisements for a variety of products (mostly perfumes) and businesses. Pages are very clean and intact except for light 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 Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo for Season 1945-1946. Sergei J. Denham was the director at the time. Included are biographical spotlights with accompanying black-and-white photographic illustrations for the following ballet dancers or figures in the ballet industry: Alexandra Danilova, Frederic Franklin, George Balanchine, Nathalie Krassovska, and Leon Danielian. Also included are black-and-white photographic illustrations of Ruthanna Boris, Maria Tallchief, Dorothy Etheridge, Nicolas Magallanes, Michel Katcharoff, and Nikita Talin. There is an article ("Ballet and the Arts") by New York Times critic Edward Alden Jewell. Toward the center is a partial list of Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo's repertoire (ballets the company performs) with brief accompanying summaries. There are summaries for the following ballets: Raymonda, Concerto Barocco, Mozartiana, Grand Adagio, Frankie and Johnny, La Farandole, The Night Shadow, Comedia Balletica, Ballet Imperial, Danses Concertantes, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, The Afternoon of a Faun, Coppelia (The Girl with the Enamel Eyes), Les Sylphides, The Nutcracker (Casse Noisette), Swan Lake (Le Lac des Cygnes), Scheherazade, The Snow Maiden, Chopin Concerto, Rodeo, Le Beau Danube, Gaite Parisienne, The Magic Swan, and The Red Poppy. Some of the advertised products or businesses in this program are Parfums Weil Paris Co., Coty, Elizabeth Arden, Tula, Prince Obolenski, Henri Bendel, Esme, Van Raalte, Zuckerman & Kraus, Germaine Monteil, Bemberg, House of Gourielli, Bryan, Tuya, Erney, Helena Rubinstein, Flexaire, and Charbert. Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was founded in 1937 by Rene Blum and Leonide Massine. This ballet company was one of the successors of Ballets Russes which had dissolved after Blum and Wassily de Basil (also known as Colonel W. de Basil) had parted ways. Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was based in New York from 1944-1948. The company was active until 1968 when it became bankrupt. …