The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-15
BALLET SURPRISE
OFFERED TONIGHT
New Version Of 'SchchprcZade'
Is on the Bill at the
Metropolitan.
STAGE NEWS AND GOSSIP

The audience At the Metropolitan
Opera House tonight will see a differ
, ent version from the ballet "Schehera-
zade'' from any that has been given here.
Waslav Nijinsky has taken the COM
pany In hand and the work has been
rehearsed several times since he be-
came associated with the company. II
Was he who created the role of the slave
when Mikail Fokine first produced the
ballet In Pctrograd. Some difference
with the management caused the retire
ment Of Fokine. and there was nobody
| familiar with the composition to train
the other dancers. Adolf Bolm knew
enough to dance his own part, hut he
was ignorant Of the steps and manTuvres
Of the rest Of the COMPANY.
So the Ballet Russo has been practi-
cally without n bale, master up until
the arrival OF waslav Nijiusliy. who is
its real inspiration when F'okine is not
with the The dancer set to
work so soon as he arrived here to re-
hearse anew every ballet In which he
appears. and the results Of his skill will
te evident tonight when "Scheherazade"
Is seen agar here.
The Ballet Russo. after the close
Of the season al the Metropcli-
tan Opera House. will remain
in this country. There have been
regulations looking to a season in
SoIth America and Havana. bu, SO far
nothing has been definitely settled. 1t
Is known. however. that the dancers will
rot return to Europe. except under con-
di;ions very differen, from those exist
ing At present on the continent.
-
NJ. Nijinsky II 80 resentful ~ crit
cism that he has so strictly limited the
number Of occasions on which he. dances.
Anna Favlowa dances every day II ncces-
sary and sometimes twice a day, hut
three times a week is the average which
the Russian set.
81 require Just now q great deal OF
Practice he said Yesterday. and II is
the nervous rather than the physical
strain Of dancing which tells Oh an
artist. While I am Oh the stag for
only fifteen minutes in lie Spectre ne
Ia Rose I am dancing every minute
Of the time. making, moreover. some
e~xhausting leaps into the air. ! have
known other dancers of this role in lie
spectre dc Ia Rose to faint after leaping
out Of the window. so cXhausting is the
erfor, to dance continuously during the
ballet
Herbert corthell is going 70 succeed
7. ROY Barnes III "katinka' next week,
This will be the third comedian T. have
a trial in the leading role. Franklyr
.hrdell was In the leading role when thc
play was acted hrst.
sophie Tucker now does the exhaust
ing run around the back OF the theatre
In Town Topics which used to fal
To- Trixie Friganza.
KITTY Gordon has been compelled tc
resign from Arnold Days production
OF Beau Brummel' wing to tho con
trac, which the World Film Corporation
holds for her services.
The movies already have the Dram III;
, League OF America worrying. At In
arrual meeting to he held in st. Lou
! April 20 to 80. ore OF the questions +
; he d scusSed seriously is shall We Hui
lc,in tn. Movies This subject VIII b
part Of a discussion of the lnoSIng pic
ture aud its relation - the drama
/, Among the speakers announced for tn
occasion are Cranston Bren,on. Mis-
Elizabeth r Hunt. Mrs. Josephine Glenn
; ent and Prof otto Heller.
t other questions which the DRAINS
League will attempt 70 answer a. a sin
. gle session are "How can tae CALLER
Z audiences Lee won back What - tn
I remedy for the high price Of seats"
: can the ticket speculator bc elimi
! nated?
. SIR Johnston Professionalism vii
. make his last appearance in create
New York at the Majestic Theatre
Erooklyn, this afternoon IN Hamlet
. and this evening IN The Passing OF tn
i Third Floor Back" Next week he will
c appear AT tine Shuhert Theatre. Newark
. In Hamlet The Light that Failed
., t- vn.-t A.