Title: Checkmate
Description: Metropolitan Opera House, The Covent Garden Opera Trust, general administrator: David L. Webster, in association with The Arts Council of Great Britain and the British Council presents "The Sadler's Wells Ballet," from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, under the management of S. Hurok, director: Ninette De Valois, principal choreographer: Frederick Ashton, musical director: Robert Irving, artistic direction: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton, Constant Lambert, conductors: John Hollingsworth, Robert Irving, guest conductor: Robert Zeller, "Checkmate," a ballet in one scene with a prologue, music by Arthur Bliss (by arrangement with Novello & Co. Ltd.), choreography by Ninette de Valois, costumes and scenery by E. McKnight Kauffer, conductor: John Hollingsworth, first produced by the Sadler's Wells Ballet in Paris, June 15, 1937.