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It was the only work choreographed by de Valois for the
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commended the way in which the choreographer had made "a succession of appropriate and reasonable incidents which afforded excuse for dancing and mime. He noted
Markova's "piquant and harmless" La Goulue which she did with "such artless naughtiness, and with so engaging an air, as to be
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praised de Valois's "intelligent and amusing" choreography, and noted the "star" dancing of
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was the production stage manager. According to the IMDB website, there was a television broadcast of the ballet in 1938, the cast including
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accessed 2 April 2023. This web page includes two photographs of the ballet, from 1934 and 1948 in
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The Making of a
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Ballets - 'Bar aux Folies-Bergère'. Putnam, London, 1949, p938-941.
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irresistible", while Ashton was "brilliant ... dapper, suave, deft, lively as quicksilver".
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