ssine, was recently reported tohave been asked by an interviewer whyhe produced so many ballets of a grotesquecharacter. He is said to have repHedthat he found himself unable to expressthe modern world without being grotesque ;that grotesqueness is the very essence ofmodernity. Look at the chief… … JEAN DE BOSSCHfeREWATER-COLOUR BYEDMUND DULAC M. Massines remark, which might, indeed,have been carried much farther. Take,for instance, the whole subject of theGreat War—was it not grotesque, thisspectacle of millions of lives lost, endlesstalent wasted, boundless resources ex-hausted, to put a…
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