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Mademoiselle Dumilatre, in the new ballet of "The Corsair", at Drury Lane Theatre, 1844. French ballerina Adèle Dumilâtre starred in a London stage production of a ballet based on a tale in verse by Lord Byron. '... the Cabinet of Seide, the opening scene of Act 111., where the Turkish Pasha throws himself upon a couch, and Gulnare approaches him; confiding in the influence of her charms to obtain the pardon ot her liberator, Conrad'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.