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Show Russian Costumes On Display Russian stage and costume designs de-signs are now being exhibited at the University Museum of Fine Arts. The designs, to be displayed until Jan. 31, are the works of Russian Rus-sian painters and designers created cre-ated between 1910-1925 for the ballet, bal-let, opera and theatre. E. F. Sanquinetti, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, said, "T h e reason for the exhibit is that it compliments and points out the accomplishments of the theatre, music and dance departments at at the University. Students from these fine art fields use the exhibit ex-hibit for study in their respective disciplines." The stage and costume designs were created for such famous ballets bal-lets and operas as "Firebird", "Swan Lake", "Petrouchka", "The Snow Maiden" and "Sheherezade" as well as for the plays "Hamlet" and "La Dama Duende". Included are designs for a silent film entitled en-titled "Aelita". Works of 32 Russian painters and designers compose the exhibit. Consisting Con-sisting of 111 elaborate watercolor designs, the exhibit was organized and displayed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York last spring. It is now being circulated by the International Exhibitions Foundations to museums, universities universi-ties and college libraries. , The designs are brightly colored and the costumes range from Russian Rus-sian peasants to French Revolution Revolu-tion aristocrats and the Silk Hat and Tails society of the 1920's. Devils, Dev-ils, cyclops, mechanical men, and the "Mask of Death" are also in the collection. Stage designs are likewise varied, var-ied, with starkly contemporary 1920 scenes and baroque palace interiors. inter-iors. The Museum will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays. |