From twenty years old and upward.

The Ballets Russes had currently lost its two main attractions — Karsavina, who, despite her fanfared return, was refusing to leave her young son for extended tours of Europe; and, far more ruinously, Massine.

Among the alumnæ, who knew her character and ability and remembered her superb classroom work, Miss Shafer’s appointment was received with genuine satisfaction.

The mokoro owner I hired happily piled us all into a single, rather small craft and we set off over a flooded meadow, covered with barely half a metre of water.