Original Program - "Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo; American Tour 1943-44"

Covers are loose but included. Original publisher's yellow paper wrappers with staple binding. Multicolored illustration on front cover shows two dancing figures and a bull in a desert landscape. No date, circa 1943. 9" x 12." Unpaginated, all pages, complete. Illustrations in black-and-white and color (most in black-and-white), complete. Included are many advertisements for a variety of products and businesses. Pages are very clean and intact except for light age toning, occasional faint spots of discoloration, small tape repairs on last few pages (for closed tears on fore-edge), and minimal bumping to bottom corners of fore-edge. Covers are clean and intact overall except for being loose and having light age toning, slightly bumped corners, light to moderate rubbing, tape repair on back, and slight wear to extremities. A Very Good copy. This is an original program for Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. for the 1943-1944 American Tour. Sergei J. Denham was the director at the time. The following are some of the contents. Black-and-white photographic illustrations of ballet dancers Alexandra Danilova, Nathalie Krassova, Igor Youskevitch, Frederic Franklin, Ruthanna Boris, Dorothy Etheridge, Anna Istomina, Maria Tallchief, Anna Scarpova, Tatiana Grantzeva, Vida Brown, Tatiana Semenova, Nina Popova, Elena Kramarr, Ruth Riekman, Yvonne Hill, Gertrude Swobodina, Julia Horvath, Mary Ellen Moylan, Olivia Cordone, Yvonne Chouteau, Pauline Goddard, James Starbuck, Armand Picon, Leon Danielian, Michel Katcharoff, Kari Karnikoski, Grant Mouradoff, Alexander Goudovitch, Serge Ismailoff, Alfredo Korvinoff, Nicholas Magellanes, Nikita Talin, Herbert Bliss, Peter Deign, Alan Banks. Black-and-white portrait illustrations of company staff and choreographers. Partial ballet repertoire (ballets the company performs) with summaries. Four pages of color illustrations in center showing concept art. Some of the advertised products or businesses: Elizabeth Arden, Coty, Rosemarie, Bemberg, Hartnell, Flexees, and Ciro. 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. The company was active until 1968 when it became bankrupt.