Crossword-Solution: PETROUCHKA 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

The mob-scenes in "Benvenuto Cellini" are bright and brisk and sparkling, and compare not unfavorably with certain passages in "Petrouchka." And, certainly, "Roméo" manifests unforgettably the fineness and nobility of Berlioz's temper.

Nor was Fokine, the dancer-producer, who devised the choregraphy for _The Firebird_, _Cléopâtre_, and _Petrouchka_, among the number, although his presence had been announced and expected.

The heart-breaking Petrouchka, the roguish Harlequin, the Chopiniac of _Les Sylphides_,--all were offered to our view; and _Narcisse_, in which Nijinsky not only did some very beautiful dancing, but posed (as the Greek youth admired himself in the mirror of the pool) with such utter and arresting grace that even here he awakened a definite thrill.

Margaret Wycherly, one of the most active admirers of the dancer, told me after the first performance that she felt that he had for the first time leaped into the hearts of the great American public, whose appreciation of his subtler art as expressed in _Narcisse_, _Petrouchka_, and even _Scheherazade_, had been more moderate.

This composer, by his ballets _The Bird of Fire_, _Petrouchka_, and _The Sacrifice to Spring_, has worked us up through a steady _crescendo_ of interest to a climax of curiosity as to what he will produce next.