Any plan for government subsidy of the arts must be a carefully thought out and extensive one. It should start with a roof, beginning slowly and expanding gradually, until, from beneath that roof-tree, companies and organizations would deploy throughout the entire country and, eventually, the world. Eventually, in addition to ballet, music, opera, and theatre, it should embrace all the creative arts. Education in the arts must be included in the subsidization, so that the teacher, the instructor, the professor may be regarded as equal in importance to doctors, lawyers, engineers, and politicians, instead of being regarded as failures, as they so often regrettably are. Until the unborn tomorrow dawns when we can find leaders whose understanding of these things is not drowned out by the thunder of material prosperity and the noise of jostling humanity, leaders with the vision and the foresight to see the benefit to the country and the world from this kind of thing, and who, in addition to understanding and knowing these things, possess the necessary courage and the indispensable stamina to see things through, we shall have to continue to fight the fight, to grasp any friendly hand, and, I fear, continue to watch the sorry spectacle of the arts squatting in the market-place, basket in lap, begging for alms for beauty. So long as I am spared, I shall never cease to present the best in all the arts, so that the great public may have them to enjoy and cherish; so that the artists may be helped to attain some degree of that security they so richly deserve, against that day when an enlightened nation can provide them a home and the security that goes with it. With all those who are of it, and all those whose lives are made a little less onerous, a little more tolerable, to whom it brings glimpses of a brighter unborn tomorrow, I repeat my united hurrah: Three Cheers for Good Ballet! INDEX Abbey Theatre (Dublin), 217 Academy of Music (Brooklyn), 81 Adam, Adolphe, 246 Adelphi Theatre (New York), 158 _Aglae or The Pupil of Love_, 157 Aldrich, Richard, 23 _Alegrias_, 48, 55, 56 _Aleko_, 156, 172 Alexander of Tunis, Viscount and Viscountess, 307 Alhambra Theatre (London), 111 _Alice in Wonderland_, 318 _Alicia Markova, Her Life and Art_, 205 All Star Imperial Russian Ballet, 80, 87 Alonso, Alicia, 152 _Ambassador_ (a publication), 231 Ambassador Hotel (Los Angeles), 249 Amberg, George, 112 American Ballet, 136, 158 American Federation of Musicians, 62 _Amoun and Berenice_, 102 André, Grand Duke of Russia, 69 Andreu, Mariano, 129, 135 Andreyev, Leonide, 285 _Antic, The_, 76 _Antiche Danze ed Arie_, 150 Antonio Ballet Espagnol, 317 _Aphrodite_, 93 _Apollon Musagète_, 158, 172 _Apparitions_, 236, 239, 270, 273 _Apres-Midi d’un Faune, L’_ (_Afternoon of a Faun_), 78, 115 Arbeau, Thoinot, 298 Archives Internationales de la Danse, 49 Arensky, Anton, 102, 121 Argentina, 47