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    Léonide Massine (category Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo choreographers)
    Ballet Russe — but only Massine & Blum's company could be called Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Col. de Basil finally settled on the Original Ballet Russe. The...
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  • Roulette russe (Russian roulette) is the second album by French rocker Alain Bashung, issued in 1979 on Philips Records. The album was reissued the following...
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    The Good-Humoured Ladies (Le donne de buon umore) is a ballet with scenery and costumes by Léon Bakst, choreography by Léonide Massine, and music arranged...
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    Parker 'In Broadway Playhouses': Middlebrow Theatricality and Sophisticated Humour". Modernist Cultures, Volume 6, pp. 121–154. Donald Barthelme, 1982 interview...
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    Lydia Lopokova (category Ballets Russes dancers)
    the Ballets Russes in America, Europe, South America and later in London. She first came to the attention of Londoners in The Good-humoured Ladies in 1918...
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    Vaslav Nijinsky (category Ballets Russes dancers)
    ballet, and already taking starring roles. In 1909, he joined the Ballets Russes, a new ballet company started by Sergei Diaghilev. The impresario took the...
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    Orson Welles", p. 25: French: "L'histoire du scorpion, elle, est d'origine russe.", lit. '"The story of the scorpion is of Russian origin."' Jami (1887)...
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    Léon Bakst (category Ballets Russes and descendants)
    origin. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly coloured sets and costumes. He designed...
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    with the Ballets Russes. In June 1922, she appears on the programme of a performance of The Good-Humoured Ladies by the Ballets Russes at Théâtre Mogador...
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    epiphanies, and allusions—as well as its rich characterisation and broad humour have led it to be regarded as one of the greatest literary works; Joyce...
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