Original Ballet Russe
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The Original Ballet Russe was a ballet company established in 1931 by René Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil as a successor to the Ballets Russes, founded in 1909 by Sergei Diaghilev. The company assu
Bronislava Nijinska with the Ballets Russes in Monte Carlo, April 1934
Helene Kirsova stars in Petrouchka, Theatre Royal, Sydney, 11 January 1937. Photo from the Sam Hood collection.
Jim Thompson (designer)
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James Harrison Wilson Thompson was an American businessman who helped revitalize the Thai silk industry in the 1950s and 1960s. At the time of his disappearance he was one of the most famous Americans
Original Ballet Russe
…Denham, René Blum and Colonel Wassily de Basil formed Les Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo. One of the new company's board members was American businessman Jim Thompson. The company hired Leonide Massine and George Balanchine as choreographers. The majority of the works performed had previously been staged by Diaghilev's…
Jim Thompson missing
U.S. major general William J. Donovan
Thompson's private collection of silk garments which were used for the stage musical The King and I.
Jim Thompson House: Main building (c. 2013).