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[rg]

the scanned photo is said to be from Lichine's HELEN OF TROY, a ballet with connections to Fokine, whose death left the ballet in limbo, only to be revised by Lichine and to Balanchine who assisted Lichine with the ending and is said to have created some of the choreography that concerned Helen as danced by Diana Adams.
i know the ballet only slightly, from some performances in 1967 and don't have strong recollections of it.
the original Faun was, i gather, Nicolas Orloff, of whom i know next to nothing.
the 'nymph' in the center of the trio posed here might be Sono Osato but i can't say that or anything else for certain.
perhaps some BA! members have more definite thoughts about the picture.
in any case, f.y.i.

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[sandik]

Well, the middle woman certainly looks like Osato, but I don't have any proof but my eyes...

[atm711]

After all these years I still have a vision of Jerome Robbins (Hermes??) sauntering across the stage at the Old Met munching an apple.  Added to Balanchine's choreography was Robbins'.  By the time I saw it Helen was Maria Karnilova.