RUSSIA IN ANGUISH.
Members of the Russian Ballet in London declined tlie honour of a publio dinner owing to tho present tragic condition of Russia.
M. Diaghileff-, in a letter to Mr. Arthur Croxton. stated:—"Whilst our country is in its present tragic condition, we Russians naturally fee), unfortunately, unable to accept the_ offer of a public festivity, even on artistic grounds. Especially now, when the Dowager Empress has arrived in England a fugitive, and when we hear daily that people are dying of hunger in Petrograd, wo fool that it behoves us to abstain from publio functions of this kind, however nattering they may be to us as betokening the cordiality with which tho public has received us." This expression of his views doc 3 infinite honour to Diaghileff and his artistic colleagues, writes Mr. Croxton, and he suggests that those interested in the dinner should permit him" to forward their subscriptions to one of tho Russian funds now at work in this country.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 40, 16 August 1919, Page 10
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