Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 21 Dec 1939, p. 31

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onu *5aiuaij 4.- Most. outstanding of the new bal- lets added to the repertoire this year is the all-Amperican collaboration- "Ghost Town" - with choreography by American-born. Marc Platoif, new star of the comnpany;. music byr Rich- a rd Rodgers, weilknown writer of msclscores for Broadway .and Hollywood; and costumes and set- tirîgs .by Raoul Pene du Bois,, a na- tive. New Yorker. Léading roles i "Ghost Town," which is the story of Virginia City, Nev., one of Amner- ica's Most fabulous. hard-fighting,: hard - drinking,. high - spending gold rush -ommffuniities, are daraced by Mia Slavenska, Jugosiavian baller- ine, and a young Englishman, Fred-' erick -Franklin. Roland, Guerard from North Carolina, and Nini Theil- ade, *.born In Java of Danish pair- ents, complete the cosmopolitan ros- ter of leading daricers in this ballet. ther ~Préim1lres "Devil's lloliday," the amusing story of Satanic interference in the lives of Venetian citizens on the devil's '.night-off," had its world première in Philadeiphia, and will be seen for the first time in Chicago on December 27. On the sanie eve- ning "Capriccio Espagnol," a Span- ish ballet choreographed by Massine . and Argentinita, and, "Igrouchka,"t simple tale of a farmer lad's un-i Miss Margacret McKee Walker, daiughter of , MrIs,, raniçs-1. WaÏker, 1315 Elmwood avenue, Wilmette, ia exhibiting four oil paintings at the Deiphic studios in New York, this mont h. and has received very favorable coin- ments from the critic, A. S. Kruse, of the "Brooklyn Eagle" who wrote: the artists exhil ing a *iovvitei,-w nb sniv JVtecU 11inL5 Chicago premiere on Thursday, De- cember 28. Concluding the list of "first" per- formances for Chicago- will be "~Bac- chanale,".- sensational surrealist bal- let by Salvador Dali on.Friday, De- cember 29. Complete Schedule Cornplete schedule for the first week'-s performances is as follows: Tuesday, December 26, "Schehera- *Another painting'is a splendid nude study incorpârated into a well- organized landseape setting. A- third is a landscape translated into forms of fine color melody and outdoor spirit. We expeet that before long' Miss Walker's name will occupy a prominent place in the annals of con- temnporary art." The young artist returned to New Plain or engravedi, - from - Milwaukee Downer coilege, j where she is a junior this year. DRESSER. SILVER : l Sw mre the è- 1 ect-

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