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War Has Not Shattered

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London has always appre- ciated the ballet, from the old days of the Empiro and the Alhambra, when Gence, Kyasht

and Phyllis Bedcells were the

stars, to the dazzling reign of Pavlova and those other great

By

Dudley Glass

ones brought by Diaghtleff from Noted Australian song Russia by way of Paris.

writer and composer now in Britain.

ART

The Palladium may feature the Cockney comedy of Max Miller, but there is also the Darmora Ballet to dance an artistic Parisian Can-can whose spirit is surely Offenbach,

At the Coliseum they 'Strike Up the Music' but they also set the 'Ballet Bleu' whirling on the vast stage, and herald the Sun's Leicester Square lost its Em- pire and Alhambra before the

Glory's with something more present war, both having been

terpsichorean than tap-dancing, razed to the ground by the blitz theme starts from the back of It would seem fitting that builders of modern cinemas. the theatre stalls with designs London's grand opera should ho But ballet still had two homes from the 'Commedia dell' Arto', performed on such a scale as nt Covent Garden, where and continues along the walls this, but in the absence of

inevitably through various periods until it Covent Garden, and oven followed the annual outburst of merges into the twentieth cen- Sadler's Wells, smaller play- opera, and Sadler's Wells tury-and the ballet being houses must be utilised. Theatre, that artistic centre for presented on the living stage. the people in London's Islington.

One has come forward as the The dancers at the Arts Intest home of opera; it is call- To-day the Covent Garden Theatre belong to two schools: od the New Theatre, being no Markets are in full swing, but the London Ballet and the Ballet more than thirty years old, the Opera House is closed, and Rambert, and between them and remembers the dramatic Sadler's Wells has followed suit. they present a most varied re- triumphs of Sir Charles Wynd- So one must look in other places pertoire.

ham and Mary Moore. Now it than among the fruit and veget

While it does not neglect finds itself with an orchestra in ables of the 'Garden,' or the brick walls and chimney-pots classical ballet, it holds many the pit, an opera company on that surround the 'Wells, to find examples of modern choreo the stage and a most apprecia- the blossoming of ballet and raphy, particularly successful tive audience in the auditorium

boing. the strange legend of every afternoon. opera in wartime,

Russian seasons

of

When London's playhouses Lady into, Fox', which has dis-

Some of these music lovers closed their doors last year, a covered a young British star in period of theatrical inactivity Sally Gilmour. She, like her are used to grander opera. followed, until a name new to slater ballerinas, is undeterred. Others are hearing it for the the general public was adver- by alarms which may sound dur- Arat time, led by the urge for better things that the war has ing the performance: tised in the press.

The music is momentarily brought. They all of them are It was the 'Arts Theatre', bravely leading the way in re interrupted in a suitable place, a prepared for the type of per- opening the world of the stage, position held by the dancers as formance to follow by a pro- 1 brief an- Kramme note written by "the and it optimistically described someone makes itself as being in Leicester nouncement from the stage, but Director of the Sadler's Wells Square. A search round the not a member of the audience Opera, Tyrone Guthrie. Square revealed nothing more tirs, and the ballet continues on

"Isthmus" Of Opera its graceful way. than palatial cinemas, together

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success of wartime ballet. The not be grand; to survive it must; Further scrutiny discovered it Arts Theatre, adding to its other at present be shorn of much; the close to the Leicester Square Praiseworthy efforts, has even Sadler's Wells Orchestra and

แท exhibition of Chorus are reduced in numbers tube-station (quite a distance arranged

"Ballet-making", when the the repertoire is drastically cur- from the Square) in one of the tiniest bywnya London, general public is allowed to tailed and the scenery has to be

of

watch the dancera rehearsing & arranged for conditions of war- "Great Newport Street."

new work on the stage,

time touring.

Ballet For A Bob

While the London Ballet and the Ballet Rambert are

perm-

"Yet we hope even an Opera Quite a lot of people have dis- anent fixtures the Sadler's Wells that is not Grand may be covered the Arts Theatre never- Company pays occasional visits welcomed for a short spell in theless. They queue up daily at to London, and the 'Ballet Group London.

its box-office, and no wonder, for dances an exquisite Wedgwood "Lancashire has encouraged coupled with the magic word Suite at the Little Theatre off us to believe that the effort to 'Ballet is a comforting assur- the Strand. ance of inexpensive 'Bullet for a Bob. Ballet, moreover, at a time when war-workers can see itat 'the lunch-hour from 1 to

Polish Ballet

keep Sadler's Wells alive is not unjustified; that upon this com. pany of singers and players, From the Continent to Shaf- familiar and loved at the old

2 with an alternative of After- tesbury Avenue has come the Wells, may be founded the lunch Ballet, 2.15-3.15, or Tea brilliant Polish ballet, welcomed national Opera of hereafter; for its verve and polish, for that this company is the Ballet from 3.30-4.30

Secing that the theatre la Czeslaw Konarski and Alicia isthmus, small but strong, link- packed at each of its sessions, Halama its stars, and for the ing the continents of the past there can be no doubt that colourful Cracow Wedding dis- and the future." London still likes ballet however playing gay peasant costumes in

There can be no doubt that for a sunlit village that is a feast. compressed it may be.

The Arts Theatre Club saw the future.

for the eyes, and a symbol for a mere isthmus the Sadler's Wells Company gives a most the first production of Young In the larger theatre and excellent hecount of itself, even Woodly', 'The Lady with a Lamp'

with a skeleton orchestra of and Viceroy Sarah', when the drama was its main offering. again for the necessary relaxa- sixteen, and a much diminished

chorus of nine. Now it is devoted to the ballet, tion of Londoners, the possi- and a nominal fee opens its doors bilities of ballet are not neglect- to a wider public. Not many of ed. them can be seated in such n small place but their repeated visits make up for it.

When an official of the Club, standing by the entrance and watching the crowds trying to gain admission, remarks: "We had a thousand hero yesterday 1"'. ho is not referring to incendiary bombs, but to the collectivo number of people, at the three performances.

If one arrives in good time, the tiny auditorium of the Arts Theatre is itself an art gallery, for its walls are surprisingly hung with pictures. When so many of London's walls are. shattered, it is a miracle to look at these theatre ones covered: with sketches of decor and costume associated with colo 'brated ballet companies: The

music-halls now opening up

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Players and singers put all they can into the music, and an admirable balance is preserved by their con ductor, Laurence Collingwood, who -has for long been a pillar of strength at the Wells. Headed by Joan Cross, that sympatholle soprano,

the vocalists are all of high calibre, sing In English that is clearly understand- able, and rovent, for the first time for many, the secrets of the most complicated opera books,

They do full justice to a carefully selected repertoire: "The Marriage of Figaro", "La Traviata"; "Madame Butterfly", "Die Fledermaus". and that storehouse of traditional bai

ballads, "The Beggar's Opera”,

After its season at the New Theatre the Sadler's Wells Company will contínuo á á tour of England, encour- aged and assisted by the Carnegie Kingdom Trust, before re- United turning to its present headquarters in Burnley, Lancashire, There will prepare a new repertoire for the furtherance of British opera, an art #that, struggles to exist in peace-time, buit la Anding new favour. În present cenditions, and is unpretentiously coming Into its own at last.

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