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Cyril W. Beaumont : bookseller, publisher, and writer on dance.

Title: Cyril W. Beaumont : bookseller, publisher, and writer on dance. Part three / Kathrine Sorley Walker.
Author: Walker, Kathrine Sorley.

Found In

Dance chronicle. New York. v. 25, no. 3 (2002), p. 447-476. ill.

Subject

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Discusses the 1953 visit to Britain by the Royal Danish Ballet and Beaumont's writing on it; prizes established by Beaumont for promising young dancers; his reviews of British dance companies and the Leonid Lavrovsky production of Giselle in the mid 1950's; correspondence between Beaumont and his friends Doris Niles and Serge Leslie; publishing The seven leagues of a dancer (on the career of Niles); Beaumont's summary of fifty years of male dancers published in the Oct. 1960 issue of The dancing times; the collaboration of Beaumont and Leslie on A bibliography of the dance collection of Doris Niles and Serge Leslie; the closing of Beaumont's book shop due to London road changes; meeting the 17-year-old Californian Leslie Getz in 1963; the Beaumonts' flat in London; Beaumont's friendship with Margaret Rolfe, a pupil of Marie Taglioni; Beaumont's 1967-68 articles for The dancing times; Beaumont's continuting involvement with the Cecchetti Society and ISTD; Beaumont's wife Alice and her deteriorating health; the writing of Bookseller at the ballet and its critical reception; his illness and death in May 1976, and tha many observances of his death in the dance world.

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OCLC

NYPY03-B1144

Author

Walker, Kathrine Sorley.

Title

Cyril W. Beaumont : bookseller, publisher, and writer on dance. Part three / Kathrine Sorley Walker.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references, p. 472-476.

Found In:

Dance chronicle. New York. v. 25, no. 3 (2002), p. 447-476. ill.

Research Call Number

*MGZA