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Thank you What and why?

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Here.

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I'm gonna be good.

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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That's okay.

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I'm sorry.

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I just didn't have like something to say.

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I think so.

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You know, both like happy.

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can reality now on 20

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page like think that through.

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OK.

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So me.

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Jamo

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This was last year.

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No, because that was also last year.

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Everything is now blue.

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Right down here.

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These are pallium cut and so they don't really shrink.

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Now I'll get her a medium.

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What's my mom like?

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Do you have these in red?

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Those are t-shirts. We have a couple of white t-shirts left.

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Professor, you shopping ladies.

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This is

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the

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one.

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Yeah.

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This

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woman who stayed for the

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two years.

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This is very close to the jazz

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presentation.

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This is

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very close.

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Good evening.

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In this 1985 season

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of important anniversaries in

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the

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history, the

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festival

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association is

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honored.

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Tonight's performance inaugurates the week of ballet.

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During each season in which ballet is presented at the festival, a week will be identified with Ruth.

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This season marks the 60th anniversary of her first appearance at Ravigna in 1926,

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when she was the choreographer for ballet performances and danced in Ravigna's first pavilion during the famous summer opera days.

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Ruth, we are proud to pay tribute to you and to an illustrious period in Ravigna's memorable past.

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With the introduction of the Ruth Page Week of Ballet, Ravigna is providing ongoing recognition of your importance to the world of dance.

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Ruth, would you please come up?

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Ruth.

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It's hard to believe it, but it's true that Ruth danced here 60 years ago. That's incredible.

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I think she's ready to do it again.

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And Ruth, we have a special little gift for you, the Ravigna 50th anniversary book.

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And if you look to page 20, you'll see a lovely picture of you here in about 1926, right outside by those flowers in the old pond.

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It's a great remembrance, and thank you for being back with us.

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I can't believe it's 60 years ago, because it seems like just yesterday.

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And I don't know if any of you even remember what marvelous opera they used to have here.

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And that was the first job I ever got in Chicago, and I came to Chicago, I got this job at Ravigna.

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And I remembered everything, everything about it so well.

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And I'd like to just make a toast to Louis Eckstein, who was the one who started the whole thing.

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And I'm sure everybody's forgotten him, but I haven't.

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And he started the Ravigna, this whole business, and he made the opera company.

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And then when he died, it turned over to music.

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I hope they'll have some opera here again.

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But I think it's marvelous that the San Francisco Valley is coming, and I hope they'll keep on coming.

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And I'm looking forward to seeing them so much.

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And I thank you for the lovely bouquet. Thank you.

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Thank you.