Leader, ALFRED CAVE
Conducted by LESLIE HEWARD
Lord Berners's 'Luna Park' is a fantastic ballet in one Act, which was originally written for C. B. Cochran's 1930 Revue with Nikitina and Lifar in the principal parts. The scene of the ballet is a Freak Pavilion in Luna Park.
There are four niches concealed behind curtains, each of which contains a freak: a man with three heads; a three-legged juggler; a one-legged ballerina; and a man with six arms. The showman enters, bows to the audience, raises the curtains of the niches in turn and each freak performs a little dance.
After the show, the freaks decide that they have had enough of circus life and they will go into the world and seek their fortune. The showman returns for the second performance, finds in the first niche two heads, in the second the juggler's billiard balls moving round in a slot, and the extra leg of the juggler. The third niche is empty, and in the fourth four arms wave wildly. The showman endeavours to close down the niches, but when he approaches the four waving arms, he is caught by them and strangled.