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Ballet star Helene Kirsova with puppy and tomato sauce bottle on arrival back in Sydney for a return season, Central Railway Station, May 1937 / Sam Hood

Unlike the whistle stop ballets russes tours of the US, the company in Australia stayed in the state capital cities for long seasons. Kirsova, the wife of the Danish consul must have been well-loved and respected, even giving three playgounds to some of the poor children of Sydney

 

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Uploaded on October 18, 2011
Taken in May 1937