This is the book of reminiscences of the Ballets Russes which MrBeaumont, as the best qualified man in England, has, for the last tenyears, been urged to write. Readers will find that it is more intimateand personal than any of Mr Beaumont’s previous works. From1912 he saw every London season of Diaghilev’s Ballet, at first, as amember of the public, and, after 1918, both before and behind thecurtain, as a friend of the Director and his lieutenants and of manyof the Company. This book records the Ballet’s activities in London, and a personal critical impression of the principal dancers in theroles that they made famous. Little intimate incidents are included, and pen pictures of distinguished personalities in private life. It tellsfor the first time, and for all time, what the Diaghilev Ballet wasreally like. | The Diaghilev Ballet in London by Cyril W Beaumont, Paperback | Indigo Chapters