The Russian colony also watches with interest the fortunes of members of local Bohemian circles in india, After an absence of six months, Miss L. Nikitina and Mr. N. Svetlanov, popular—ballet-dancers, have returned here from India and tell of their meetings with Russian Shanghailanders in that country, In Colombo the artist A. Safronoff is painting the murals of the Halifax Hotel" His work is highly valued, and he finds time to do a considerable amount of painting on Indian In Colombo, also, the met the well-known impressario M. A. Karpi, where he is managing the Viennese orchestra of Gabor Radic, In Madras they met ihe ballet-duo of Fokin and Kravhen ko, who, however, shortly left for Calcutta. In Bombay they came across the ballet-duo of Vladimir and Nina Artinelli, who were touring the miner resorts. While in Singapore, they spent much time with the artist V. Zasypkin, who has his studio and pupils and is the centre of the ar-fistical life of that city. Connoisseurs are showing merest over his work, and there is a chance that he will leave for England. The young Shanghai artist Mr. V. Tretchikoff is also in Singapore working in a
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