| Description | The album consists of scene shots - photograph prints and press cuttings with focus on dancer(s), predominantly of the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company. The images date from c1930s - c1950s. Features also International Ballet, Ballet Theatre, New York, Royal Opera Stockholm, Les Ballets des Champs-Elysees, Ballet Rambert. The dancers are named and often scene and performance added. Where other companies performed, the information is often restricted to the company's name and performance. Dancers include Anna Pavlova, Alicia Markova, Beryl Grey, Pamela May, Margot Fonteyn, Mona Inglesby, Robert Helpmann, Alexis Rassine and others.
First page of the album reads "A 'First Night' at Covent Garden" and includes a newspaper picture entitled The Tatler and Bystander April 23, 1952. It reads: "The staircase leading from the Crush Bar thronged with ballet enthusiasts watching new arrivals on the first night on Bonne-Bouche, a ballet which decisively lifted the cloud of melancholy which appeared to be settling on the Wells productions." Inscription added in [M. Collingwood's] hand: ("Irene and I watch from the shadows.") |