The sun., 1916-10-30
BALLET Russo OFF
ON II WEEKS TOUR
Excitable Artists, With Wives,
Babies and Pets, Get Away
Amid Confusion.
NAMES STUMP IRISH BOY
RumOrs Of Return Engage
ment Not flushed After
Dancers Departure.

P'oNide TOT the eccentricities OF
S'y-hv te"mperamental Russian dam
GERS Is not a Job to be coveted. No
matter what II Is. the salary Is not
mar enough. But taking a train with
sixty-five volatile. explosive Russians.
a'ong with an equal number Of excitable
musicians and a third large contingent
consisting Of wives, babies and pets, TO
say nothing Of the mechanical stan. il
a Job to he compared only with taking
Nerdun-with this difference. however.
that II was somehow accomplished YES
terday. and two trains shortly after noon
pulled out of the Grand Central S'ation
Win the Serge de Diaghilefy Ballet
Russo bound for Providence, II. I.
Inc despatching Of the frs, train.
containing all the scenery. settings.
props. mechanical equipment and cos.
TUNES. was as nothing compared with
getting the dancers themselves IN. NJ
)insky's faun was In n crate in the first
car. Flore Cleopatra Revallcs's
pet snake a luxurious quarters all to
himself In a glass cage, and Adolph
Bolm's olive wreath was brought down
In a handbook by a valet shortly before
the train left.
The day the madhouse burned was
ef't 'h''At Will Tue
scenes OF confusion as the hour Of de-
parture approached. It was like Igor"
"Eulenspiegel' and "Petrouchka" COM
bined without the music.
Names stump Irish Lad.
When only n few minutes remained
and two OF the principal dancers and
the chief machinist had not arrived,
Nicholas kremnen. stage manager. be-
gan to get nervous. so he called a mes
senger boy. @ out in the main con-
course he told the red headed Irish
lad who responded. and page Miles.
S~pesiwtzewa and wasilewska and NJ.
Michel Tschaoussovski-and YOU might
ask for Mieczyslas Pianowski also"
I'll chuck up me job before I even
try IT," the boy said.
a few minutes later waslav Nijinsky
and Adolph Bolm came walking down
the %gangplank arm In arm. as rival
premier danseurs SO often will, and the
train pulled out.
The Ballet Russo will dance in Provl-
dence tonight and at New Haven on
Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. on
Thursday they will appear at the Acad-
emy OF Music In Brooklyn for one per-
Torrance.
Even after the Ballet Russo had left
Yesterday the persistent rumors that a
return engagement In New York at the
end Of their coast tour Is contemplated
were not hushed. II was pointed Out
that Nijirsky is under a twenty week
contract at a salary said to be in the
neighborhood OF 1000 n week, and the
tour Is scheduled to last only seventeen
weeks. 1t is significant also that the
toIr. as booked by the Metropolit,!
Musical Bureau. will end nj Roch"sts-
the first week in March. II Is not likely
that Nijinsky will he permitted to Ian
guish in idlens~s NJ a thousand "A week
II the management can prevent H. !
was also learned that although the Man
haitian Opera House is engaged ;hroucg
March. arrangement can be made to lei
the ballet have the house II necessary.
Four Reasons for Return.
The ballet last season after its on
gagement at the Metropolitan and q
short tour Of the country !eiuf ned 10 tht
Century Theatre. where II was received
with favor equal to or greater than before
The management of the Ballet RUSS
does not have much to say on the sub
jec,. but admits having an ear attunct
to anything that sounds like a popular
demand for a return engagement.
The ballet will have four reasons Il
offer for It's return. They are the foul
novelties planned for this season. which
had to be postponed on account Of
Nijinsky's sprained ankle. They are
Il. Dieu Bleu." a Hindu legend b,
Jean Cocieau and y. Madrazzo. will
choreography by Fokine and a%ccoutrc
ments by Bakst: "Mephisto Nalse,' h,
Franz List. photography by Nijirsk,
and designs by Robert Edmund Jones
the American artist lie Coz d'Or." by
Rimski-Korsakov, and "Narcisse."