Evening Star Newspaper, December 10, 1922, Page 89

ROTOGRAVURE SECTION—DECEMBER 10, 1922. HE BALLE By W. E. HILL (Copyright: 1922: by The Chicago Tribune ) THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. The classic stuff from the vaudeville circuit —a bacchanal, if you = please, right out be- The ballet of jewels. or fans, or trash baskets, or vampires, in which the ladies of . €y g : fore everybody. the ensemble depict by easy stages the evolution of something or other. These i fa danced by Wiadla four picked beauties—and good girls they are, all of them—are doing their bit to : $ and Rousemuff and put across the “Ballet of Scents™ in the current “Foibles 6f 1923"—showing the s H their troupe of Rus evolution of musk and Florida water from early Chaldean times straight up to i si nineteen ‘twenty-two . The mid-Victorian revival—"The Poet and the Katydid” is programmed as a “fantasy,” meaning very slender as to theme. The plot deals with a young poet who went a-wooing among the _ _ daisies and jonquils one spring. Pretty sgon a Karydid came along and stole the heart of the The electric ballet of the early nineteen hundreds, in the good old days before “shapes” had even begun to go out. Poet away from the Daisy and the Crocus. t ; Near the end of act second some one would look happily into the wings and say, “Why, here comes the Central Park 4 Zouaves!” and sure enough on they would come. Then at the end of the drill the stage would be darkened and, without any warning at all, the costumes of the Central Park Zouaves would light up! And if the show had been put on There certainly was hell to pay! The Poet and the Katydid got bounding around and without regard to expenditure a big American flag made of electric lights would appear in the sky. around, making faces at each other till it Seemed as if the little hearts of Daisy , and Crocus would well nigh break £ Finally Katydid tired of the Poet X Way back in and flew away. The Poet died of a \ E i 1905, this was broken heart and was mourned by § . 2 the very latest Daisy and Crocus. Very unhappy 3 ety . thing in Pony as to ending, but very artistic e s % Ballet Cos- = o, i g tumes. dh w‘:s The Ballet pupil, who loves 3 s %3 supposed to be nothing better than to 5 | awfully cute. chase a toy balloon around the floor. ‘The flying ballet of the nineties. In the grand transformation scene of the The piece de re fairy extravaganza several intrepid sistance of the lauc}iles of thde ballgteduseq ;Io be lifted :r\ vaudeville act by eys and carried right up to the 4 2 vk = = :rosc?nium. Sometimes they threw ]',2:, %&g? ,E: g, b g The programme ballet is “based on a legend.” According to the programme “The Bridegroom of the East Wind” ballet is hased paper flowers out to a breathless audi- Cresses.” q d i : on an old Paw Paw legend which has it that Prince Rosenblatt, bridegroom-elect of the East Wind, is expected as a test of his ence, sometimes they didn't. But it § delicacy to spend a day and 2 night in the garden of the daughters of Proserpine.” Should he succumb to their wiles he wil be - judged impure and will be banished forever from the kingdom of the moon, Prince Rosenblatt is tempted in turn by the five graces—Chicanery, Lust, Ro, was grand. L ¥uish Deeds, Chance and Indecision. There ensues a wild dance of fear, hatred and simulated remorse. Thereupan Hulda, factotum of Klug, Ruler of the Air, touched by his plight, presents Rosenblatt with a vial which shall render him impervious to, all seductions. There follows a mad revel, during which Prince Rosenblatt steps on the vial and breaks it. Amid general rejojcing Prince Rosenblatt is jud ged unworthy and is banished forever from the Kingdom of the Brownies.