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Christmas 1938-1939 / Darryl Lindsay
Bib ID 4502598
Format BookBook
Author Lindsay, Daryl, 1890-1976
Description [Sydney? : Ballets Russes,] 1938. 
1 folded sheet ([3] p.) : ill. ; 20 cm. 
Summary

Christmas card issued by the Ballets Russes for their second tour of Australia in 1938-1939. The cover features six koalas on stage, five of them dancing and jumping. Their performance is being conducted by a lizard or goanna with baton. The sixth koala, looking astonished, is formally dressed and has a bouquet of flowers in his right paw. The scene depicted within a roundel. The other pages include facsimile signatures of the dancers and a map of Australia with the words Australian tour 1938-1939, Theatre Royal Sydney.

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Cover title.

Related Material Associated materials in the PROMPT collection filed under Ballets Russes Australasian tours 1936-1940 through Petherick Reading Room. 
Subjects Ballets Russes in Australia.  |  Ballet dancers  |  Ballet - Australia - History.  |  Ballet companies - Australia - History.  |  Christmas cards - Australia
Details Collect From
Np 394.2663 L748
Copy: N pbk.
Main Reading Room (Australian Collection)
In Use (Staff Official Loan)
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