"You will take us to see ballets and everything.

" "I should like to hear operas and see ballets in Paris," said Rosabella; "but I wish we could come back here before long.

The walk changed to hopping and dancing, as she warbled various snatches from ballets and operas, settling at last upon the quaint little melody, "Once on a time there was a king," and running it through successive variations.

Banquets, ballets and pageants succeeded one another in rapid succession.

The days were passed in the exhilaration of sport, and the evening repasts were followed by animated conversation, ballets, music and recitations.

Theatricals of all sorts, especially ballets, had a great attraction for him and elicited his enthusiastic comments.

Among the ballets, I have seen perhaps three of the best, viz., Achille à Scyros,

I have been to the Scala theatre, to see the Ballet of the Vestal, one of the most interesting Ballets I ever beheld.

It has been said that this was the origin of court ballets, and La Colombière, in his "Théâtre d'Honneur et de Chevalerie," relates that this ancient dance of the knights was kept up by the Spaniards, who called it the Moresque.

A certain Balthazar de Beaujoyeux was master of her ballets, and they danced at the Castle of Blois the night before the Duc de Guise was assassinated under the eyes of Henry III., just as they had danced at the Château of the Tuileries the day after St. Bartholomew's Day.

Plays are acted here, and ballets and conjuring performed.

The first victims of this sweeping accusation were the Baron de Persan, the brother-in-law of De Vitry, and De Bournonville his brother, who were entrusted with the safe keeping of Barbin in the Bastille, and by whom he had been indirectly permitted to maintain a correspondence with his exiled mistress; together with the brothers Siti, of Florence, and Durand, the composer of the King's ballets.

On the return of Louis XIII to the capital Anne of Austria organized two magnificent ballets, one of which was danced in the apartments of the King, and the other in her own.

Bassompierre, the volatile and restless Bassompierre, the hero of the Court dames, and the idol of the Court ballets, favours the seclusion of a prison; there is space enough for him in the one which he has selected, and his gorgeous habiliments will produce the happiest effect when contrasted with the gloomy walls of the good old fortress.

His pastoral tales and heroic ballets, his Zélindors and Zéloïdes and Erosines, which to us seem utterly vapid and frivolous, never gave him a moment's uneasiness.

STOKES, ADRIAN. Russian ballets.

The a cappella singer, mixed voices; a collection of motets, madrigals, chansons, carols, ayres, ballets.

Virgil Thomson (A); 3May72; R529374. Two ballets.

Madame Brehier, nee Marguerite Caudrar (W); 30Jun76; R636138. R636139. Chez Diaghilev, a l'aube de mon destin; sept ans aux Ballets Russes.

STOKES, ADRIAN. Russian ballets.

The book of ballets, classic and modern.

Madame Brehier, nee Marguerite Caudrar (W); 30Jun76; R636138. R636139. Chez Diaghilev, a l'aube de mon destin; sept ans aux Ballets Russes.

At this moment (or, rather, every evening at 10:30 and 9) there are two excellent ballets being played there, called respectively Cecile and the Dream of Wealth.

And as for you, my Lady Sonnsfeld, you may, the sooner the better, pack up your belongings and be off to Dresden where my cousin, the Elector of Saxony, has need of just such nymphs and graces for his court fireworks and his ballets.

As to Baïf, his name will scarce outlast the scenery of his ballets, his plays are out of fashion since the Gelosi arrived.