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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 10, 1922)
TIIE SUNDAY OREGONIANV- PORTLAND. DECEMBER 10, 1922 jf ' V (Copyright: 1922: by The Chicago Tribune. Ns!) will I'ff ikW w"A fa&Py . x ??Zrmmmmmmmm TJje baJIet o jewek or fans or t-.lsh baskets, or vampires, in which the ladies of " : I fe re f ve ry b o d y. W'&J&'& $Sa&. the ensemble depict by easy stages the evolution" of something or other. These ,CT : i danced by Wladla jAA " Jfr'teflftk''- four picked beauties and good girls they are, aU of them are doing their bit to F:5S tf - I and Rousemuff and & 'iW ' l?t ' - - put across the "Ballet of Scents" in the current "Foibles Of 1923"-showing the Jfy f g : their troupe of Rut- Pfl.lt'l ffcTwf:"'fy evolution of musk and. Florida water from early Chaldean timet straight up t If :S !f sian dancers. I ' "jT ' 4 r VUk"VK': 1 nineteen twenty-two.. jln-rtfr-' Z ? "Ami ; a . - . i S'sa. t i ?igwa "W j "-Tar ' Way back in 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 soon a Katydid came along and stole the heart of the, Poet away from the Daisy and the Crocus. There certainly was hell to payl The Poet and the Katydid got bounding around and around, making faces at each other till it seemed as if the little hearts ot Daisy and Crocus would well - nigh break , Finally Katydid tired of the PoetS and flew away. The Poet died of a broken heart and was mourned by Daisy and Crocus. Very unhappy as to ending, but very artistic The Ballet pupil, who loves nothing better than to chase a toy balloon around the floor. - MX' The electric 'ballet of the early nineteen hundreds, in the good old days before "shapes" had even begun to go out. Near the end of act second some one would look happily into the wings and say, "Why, here comes the Central Park Zouaves I" ana sure enougn on rney wouia come, men at tne ena ot the drill the stage would be darkened and; without my warning at all, .the costumes of the Central Park Zouaves would light up! And if the show had been put on. without regard to expenditure a big American flag made of electric lights would appear in the sky. -f ' F ' 'I'x.Jttlt(. ' HTWift i':1 t- lJfc t H: AV faff? I A'U' t The flying ballet of the nineties. In the grand transformation scene of the fairy extravaganza several intrepid ladies of the ballet used to be lifted on pulleys and carried right up to the proscenium. Sometimes they threw paper flowers out to a breathless audi ence, sometimes they didn't. But was grand. The piece de re sistance of the raudeville act by :he '"Eight Eng lish Water Cresses. The programme ballet ia "based on a legend." According to the programme "The Bridegroom of the East Wind" ballet Is based 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 delicacy to spend a day and a night in the garden of the daughters of Proserpine. Should he succumb to their wiles he wul 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, Roguish Deeds, Chance and Indecision. There ensues a wild dance of fear, hatred and simulated remorse. Thereupon Hulda, factotum of Klug, Ruler of the Air, touched by his plight, presents Rosenblatt with a vial which hall render him impervious to all seductions. There follows a mad revel, durmg-which Prince Rosenblatt steps on the vial and breaks it Amid general rcjqjcjnx Pruice Koaenbktt judged unworthy and u banished forever from the Kingdom of. tha Uxowaiaa.