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... James Bailey and Some of His Sketches for the Ballet 44 Giselle James Bailey, who is twenty-four, has done the decor and costumes for the new pro duction of Giselle at Covent Garden. Shortly before the war began, he won a scholarship in stage design at the Slade and studied there under Vladimir Polunin. He went into the Army but was invalided out and spent the last two years of the war as a ...

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... AFTER seven years of occupation by Government Departments, Pembroke College is once again full of young men working to take a degree. During the Eights Week this was the only college to arrange a dance, and it branched out with a festivity approaching pre-war standards which over 400 dancers enjoyed enormously-- the first of its kind since 1939. The evening was warm and fine, and the ...

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