Lastly, the plan of the instructional train might be applied with the most beneficial results to spreading the taste for the Russian Ballet. We do not hope to detach such bright particular stars as Pavlova or Karsavina from the London stage, but at the present moment, according to the latest statistical returns, there are several hundred Russian premières danseuses and thousands of coryphées of all grades congregated in the Metropolis, many of them without engagements, and reduced to giving dancing lessons to the daughters of profiteers, Crypto-Semites and other unpropitious persons. The organisation of a Russian Ballet train would therefore serve the double purpose of freeing these gifted performers from an ignoble use of their talents and at the same time initiating the provinces in the poetry of motion.
"I've just 'eard, Mrs. 'Uxtable, as 'ow my Ned is behavin' so well that 'is sentence is bein' redooced by six months."
"You don't say so! Well, reelly, Mrs. 'Arris, wot a comfort it must be to you to 'ave a son what does you so much credit."
"Oxford University.—First Innings. R. H. Bettington, dun out ... 12."
Daily Paper.
The batsman himself, we understand, expressed the opinion that he had been "done in."