Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-09-29 | Page 33 | Creator of Ballet Once Faced Wrath of New York Puritans

Creat Creator r of Ballet Once F Faced aced Wrath of New York Puritans S Serge rge DIa whose h 1 lse death in ln Venice lizi has Just been reported first b became cam known to America In 1 1916 16 when lila his Ballet Russe Russo made its New Now York debut at nt the Century theatre Exploited a la Ja Barnum In newspaper news news- paper aper and program advertising as W the uthe great greatest st artistic sensation of ot the he l twentieth tho the ballet necessarily had to do some Bome lively topping stopping to make good When It Ii Is remembered that it met with the opposition of ot the censor In lii every everyone one of oC the sixteen cities in which It t J played on its Hlf tour It seems that It lived t-lived up to the tho advance ance notices Ballet Hal Hailed Here Hero As Innovation in Art Th of oC Anthony C Comstock was first disturbed in New York durin durIng tho the p performances r m in n a S of of LApres l L dUn dUIL l Faune nc and In the former r piece particular H tress was was laid by the scene In which a dancer portraying a faun ann disported ab about ut he the stage In hi pursuit of or Greek the thc l In lii car carousing of or slaves staves In th the harem scene offended attended although Indignant at tho the thought of revising revising- his creations finally co consented d' d to certain changes De tIm censor and and displays display of ot artistic te by members of the tho company the Ballet Bahle Russe Busse was hailed here hereau a au ais It tt had 11 been abroad as an innovation Inno In lit art Its Us audiences were largo large and tive There Thelo was nothing but praise f for r the beauty of C Its the perfection or of of its miming the lustre ot of Its Its' settings l and nd tho the vigor that p pervaded everything it attempted to do through an n appeal to t tile the le senses The Russians otic one critic dec declared ard to us a beautiful form of ot dramatic art rt they present ent entin In a Q manner extraordinarily lne In every detail a Q product of ot combined intelligence imagination i sensitive tast taste and theatrical craft Russian R nc His HTa Dream Drum AS lIS Editor to whom the ballet indebted for its its' creation and success waa ag born in Inthe the province of or Russia March 19 1872 mind and as a a. youth was wa's attached to the court tho-court c court urt of or the Grand Duke Vladimir He lie began the time study t dy of ot law but finding it little suited to his liis taste turned hI his Atte attention to music and was graduated from the tile Conservatory Conservator of ot St St. t. t Petersburg Later ho studied stagecraft and organized organised an nn anart art exhibition in tho the Russian capital In 1899 lie founded and edited a review Mir MIl The World of ot Art While editing this paper which exerted a broad influence in the country and andIn In which the the- most advanced advanced ad nd- artists of ot the b nd ho gathered gaUl gaIn led ered around him found expression It If It Is said that con conceived lv time lio Ides Idea of a a. Russian renaissance of ot all alt the arts Owing to tho the financial condition ot of Russia because of with Japan n the review was suspended It was vas soon soon after this that there thero oc occurred occurred occurred oc- oc the extraordinary union of or artistic for forces es In hi tile the persons of o and re resulting re- re suiting in the Russian ballet Which set the capitals of oC Europe Europa and America afire with its color music and originality i did not dance act net nor lor compose compos m music but he had hada a a- s for tor coordinating these arts art with wah beautiful and novel settings Among those who danced for or him were Adolpn A Bonn Bolin and and Ld Ia Bakst and 1 designed scenes and nd costumes and gave him poetry Music and Theatre Occupied Him From 1907 Beginning In 1907 aOi devoted devoted de de- voted himself to musical and theatrical theatrical the tho- productions or organizing sOY sev se r eral Russian In Paris In 1908 he produced he-produced d the tho Russian operas Boris Godunoff and ana The Tho pf Mald-pf of and a. a number numb r of ot ballets ballets' at atthe t the Paris Opera In 1909 It was s decided to send the Ballet au t Russe which was yas operated opera on a state slate subsidy to Paris and was chosen as aa Its Us manager man man- ager la In tho French capital it was hall hailed as a 8 stupendous success and later was wal was was' sent to London where it St was r received with equal enthusiasm Among the heat best known of r DI hl- hl lefts left's cr creations for tor the ballet baliet are arc an an oriental t fanta fantasy y ys s set t t to the score of ot Korsa koffs koW symphonic poem and settings settinG by La uLa Boutique A charming fantasy composed from bits of or music recently re rearranged ro- ro arranged ed b by and ballet balleL versions version of or Ivor or Stravinsky Le Chant du duy dU y