We are offering three ballet souvenir magazines.
1.)
The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo 1943-44 American Tour Magazine (9" x 12"). With particular focus on the widely acclaimed production "Rodeo" or "The Courting at Burnt Ranch", an outstanding contribution to "purely American" ballet, with pictures of the performers.
The following pictures were signed by the performers: Alexandra Danilova (foremost ballerina, Russian State School trained), Frederic Franklin (American ballet dancer), Dorothy Etheridge (Kentuckian soloist), Tatiana Grantzeva, Tatiana Semenova, Nina Popova, Elana Kremarr, Gertrude Swobodina, Kari Karnikoski, Alfredo Korvinoff, Nikita Talin, and Peter Deign. There are also short biographies of the top performers, and an illustrated picture of the scenery of Burnt Ranch by Oliver Smith. The magazine also includes "An Award of Appreciation" from the governor of Oklahoma, the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, and the Oklahoma State Symphony Society - thanking the Ballet for glorifying the traditions and culture of the Great Southwest and for an honest interpretation of America's last frontier's romantic past. The magazine also has the Repertoire of the Ballet listing 18 of their ballet performances, with descriptions of each. **CONDITION** - pages of the magazine are Excellent. The covers show some soiling; and there was some separation of the front & back cover at the spine, which has been repaired with acid-free archival tape.
2.) Mia Slavenska's Ballet Variante Tour Souvenir Magazine. Circa late 1940s. (8 1/2" x 11"). Presented by Columbia Artists, Ballet Variante included ballet performers Joey Harris, Lois Ellyn, Peter Nelson, and Eileen Locklin. A child prodigy, Slavenska performed for full houses in her native Croatia. By the age of 21 she was considered Europe's next Pavlova. In 1938 she escaped WWII and became a star in the Russian Ballet of Monte Carlo in the United States, performing as leading ballerina. In 1944 she organized her own troupe, the Ballet Variante. **CONDITION** - Excellent.
3.) The Ballet Theatre 1951-1952 Season Magazine with Portfolio of Portraits by distinguished ballet photographer, George Platt Lynes. (9" x 11 1/2") For their thirteenth season, The Ballet Theatre, a national American ballet company, was performing the classic Princess Aurora and the comic masterpiece Bluebeard. The magazine has great pictures of Igor Youskevitch in Tropical Pas de Deux, Alicia Alonso in Giselle and Don Quixote, John Kriza in The Thief Who Loved a Ghost, Mary Ellen Moyhan in Swan Lake, Jean Babille and Nathalie Phillipart in L'amour et son Amour, Norma Vance in Designs with Strings, and Ruth Ann Koesun in Princess Aurora. **CONDITION** - Excellent.