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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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