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that more real use might have been made of it. Except for the defunct Pastorale, this is the first ballet in which M. Diagilev has shown that he realises the potentialities of combining the two forms ; one had imagined that he was waiting till someone had made a vital and necessary use of it. But the cinema in Ode is used, as the constructivist scenery in The Cat was used, as things in the ballet have got into the habit of being used, for decorative purposes rather than for expression. Cinema is so amusing ", and it solves a lot of difficulties. Yet it was not so " amusingly " used as in last year's Berlin production of Hopp-la Wir Leben, and there is a great deal, which does not seem to have been practically considered, in which a combination of dancing figures before and within a moving film, could give true and considerable delight. One cannot help thinking that if M. Diagilev's troupe is to go on being the spice in London's rather stodgy pudding, a little less Monte Carlo and a little more Moscow would give it a great kick.
R. H.
We have received from Mr. Rogerson an interesting catalogue of educational films from British Instructional Films Ltd., 46, Brewer Street, W.l. Among others are films dealing with agriculture, poultry, rearing, the mechanism of a motor car, various geographic pictures dealing with different parts of the Empire, health, animals, and many other subjects.
It is stated that the cost of hiring the films is ten shillings per reel and carriage one way, or a special contract may be made to cover a number of reels delivered over a period. Films
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