by Arnold Haskell
Mr. Haskell traces this influence from the origin of ballet in France to the renaissance that is taking place there at the moment. The most important contribution France has made so far in this century is the part that her painters, musicians, and writers played in the Russian Ballet, under the leadership of Diaghilev and his successors, who, from 1909-1934, made their artistic home in Paris. Today, however, French designers and choreographers are once more beginning to play their full part in ballet