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The company presented a new production of Tchaikovsky's <i>Coppelia</i>, the full version of Delibes' <i>The Nutcracker</i>, a new production of Tchaikovsky's <i>Swan Lake</i> (Act II) with chorography by Anton Dolin, and Harald Lander's <i>Etudes</i>. The artistic director for the season was Anton Dolin and the dancers included Belinda Wright and John Gilpin in <i>Swan Lake</i>, and Flemming Flindt and John Gilpin in <i>Etudes</i>. Other dancers included Marilyn Burr, Anita Lander, Louis Godfrey, Jeanette Minty, Pamela Hart, Joyce Lyndon, Michael Hogan, Russell Kerr, Peter White, Jeffrey Koval, Ronald Emblem, Louis Godfrey and Kenneth Melville.\n\nThe huge Stoll Theatre in London's Kingsway was opened by the American impresario Oscar Hammerstein on 13 November 1911 as the London Opera House. He wanted a theatre to rival the nearby Royal Opera House, but, because of the huge pulling power of Covent Garden, Hammerstein's project failed and he was forced to close his theatre on 13 July 1912. After an unsuccessful period of presenting variety and film, the theatre was taken over in 1916 by the successful impresario Oswald Stoll who converted it into a cinema, the Stoll Picture House. After his death in 1942 its new owner Emile Littler renamed it the Stoll Theatre. Over the next few years it housed a variety of musicals, ice shows, a sell-out season by Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin in 1951, and its longest-ever run, a production of <i>Kismet</i> in 1955. It closed in 1957 and was demolished in 1958. 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