European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ii bum germans get soviet 6romeo Berlin theater lovers especially shake Speare addicts this month got their Choice of How they will take their Romeo and Juliet this season they can have it either in Ballet or in play form. The Berlin state opera House and the Deutscher theater arc respectively and concurrently performing both. The play opened first then the Ballet whose premiere marked the inauguration of a new version of this old Ballet in Europe or for that matter in the United states. Both the music and the choreography Are new to the Western world. The better known Tschaikowsky score has been dropped in favor of the More modern music of Sergei Prokofiev whose score was imported last year from  until now this version has played Only in russian Heaters. The Staat Soper group intended presenting it last year but difficulties arose and production was put off. Tatjana Usovsky directness and choreographer of the group had to create Ney dances to adapt to the new music. She Ger no help from the russian artists who inaugurated the Ballet in Russia. I have not had As much As a hint of the sort of thing that was done in Moscow to guide me she says. However she has undertaken the production in the russian spirit. The  is in the soviet sector of the City and the Sara Toper Ballet is so Viet sponsored. At Moscow great theater protagonists of original Ballet were Michael Messerer As Romeo and Galina Olanow As Juliet. Kkt Reinholm and Natasha Trofimow in love scene from Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet with Friar. New dances for Ballet took a year to create Mew russian Borneo was declared High Light of soviet Art by musical experts. Weekend april. It ims dancers enact death scene passionately. Costumes by Schenck. Von Trapp continued on Nert Pope 17