THE RUSSIAN BALLET.
WEDDING IN MELBOURNE.
RUMOUR OF FURTHER ROMANCE.
MELBOURNE, July 1. Marriages, and rumours of marriages, have added extra excitement to the farewell season of the Monte Carlo Russian Ballet in Australia.
Mr Thadee Slavinsky was recently married in Sydney to Miss Marie Doran, a Tivoli artist, and he has since signed a contract with J. C. Williamson, Ltd., to remain in Australia to appear in the new production of "Balalaika.”
It is said that Helene Kirsova, the principal ballerina of the Ballet, will remain in Australia for a holiday, and there are rumours that she may marry here.
This morning two members of the ballet company, Miss Elizabeth Souvorova and Mr Aloysha Frank, were married quietly at the registrar’s office. Miss Helene Kirsova had promised to be bridesmaid, but she overslept after her performance on Tuesday night. She was awakened to her belated responsibilities by a telephone message from Mrs Frank, who said that the marriage had been already celebrated. -
Waikato Times, 17/7/1937.
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...Betty Souvorova, an English girl, and Aloysha Frank, a Russian,
....For the sake of the bridegroom, whose English is not very fluent, the registrar spoke the words of the marriage service slowly and clearly so that Aloysha Frank could repeat them after him. Betty Souvorova, who real name was Miss Betty Scorer, wore a suit of rust brown, with gardenias pinned to the lapel and a tiny skull cap to match fastened with a wide gold clip.
Alyosha Frank (Alexey Semenovich Frank) was a dancer with the Monte Carlo Russian Ballet (often associated with the Ballets Russes companies) during the mid-1930s, particularly during their tours to Australia.
Birth 29 Oct. 1910 Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg Federal City, Russia
Death 9 Jan. 1969 Munich, Stadtkreis München, Bavaria, Germany, cremated in England
His father - Original name Semyon Ludvigovich Frank (1877-1950). Russian-born Jewish philosopher. In 1922 he was deported from Russia with some other leading figures such as Berdyayev (the so-called 'Philosophy Steamer') and settled in Germany, moving to England in 1945.
The philosophers' ships or philosopher's steamers (философский пароход) were steamships that transported intellectuals expelled from Soviet Russia in 1922.
As one of Vladimir Lenin's last major acts as leader before a series of strokes beginning in May 1922 left him incapacitated, he initiated the imprisonment and internal banishment of the leading figures representative of Russia's Silver Ahe of intellectuals and who opposed the newly established Bolshevik government from May 1922 onwards.
The main load was handled by two German ships, the Oberbürgermeister Haken and the Preussen, which transported more than 200 expelled Russian intellectuals and their families in September and November 1922 from Petrograd (modern-day Saint Petersburg) to the seaport of Stettin in Germany (modern-day Szczecin in Poland). Three detention lists included 228 people, 32 of them students. Later in 1922, other intellectuals were transported by train to Riga in Latvia or by ship from Odessa to Istanbul.
Among notable individuals expelled were Semyon Frank and Abram Saulovich Kagan (university lecturer/publisher and father of an Australian architect Anatol Kagan)
Семён Лю́двигович Франк - русский философ и религиозный мыслитель.
Wife - Tatiana Sergeevna Bartseva Frank
Birth 8 Jun 1886 Moscow, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow Federal City, Russia
She was born into a family of shipping company manager, stationed in Saratov. Together with her husband emigrated in 1922.
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A literary critic and radio journalist who headed the London bureau of Radio Liberty.
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The Maroussia Richardson Collection comprises papers relating to Richardson's mother, Betty Frank, and consists largely of letters by Frank to her mother, Amy Scorer, during Frank's tour of Australia and New Zealand as a member of Colonel W. de Basil's Monte Carlo Russian Ballet, 1936-1937. Frank danced with the company under the name Elisabeth Souvorova. There are also typed transcripts of the letters, together with photographs, newspaper cuttings, programs and related papers.
No Title (1937, July 1). The Sun News-Pictorial (Melbourne, Vic. : 1922 - 1954; 1956), p. 40. Retrieved May 13, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article277799075
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"Ballet Bridesmaid Misses Wedding" The Herald (Melbourne, Vic. : 1861 - 1954) 30 June 1937: 3. Web. 13 May 2026 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article244630174>.
RUSSIAN BALLET DANCER DIES IN NEW ZEALAND (1945, January 24). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), p. 5. Retrieved April 28, 2026, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1104860