ABSTRACT

. . .The path to knowledge, then, for those who have regularly attended the performances of Mme. Guermanova's troupe at the Garrick Theatre, has assuredly not been easy, but even a little knowledge has had abundant rewards. And the curious and interesting aspect of the whole experience is that though, at the outset, we were in despair about our ignorance of Russian, before long we were deriving a positive and genuine pleasure from it. . . .