From The Times: September 11, 1923:
Mme Pavlova began her short season at Covent Garden last night before a large audience, who had come to be charmed and got all they came for.
The Fairy Doll, one of the toyshop ballets with dolls who come to life and dance each after his or her kind, with a fairy doll more beautiful than all others as the central figure, gave all the colour and variety, the alternations of grace and humour with a touch of the grotesque, which make a thoroughly effective stage piece.
Its only fault is that it reminds us too much of La Boutique Fantasque, without the originality in grouping and movement which made the peculiar brilliance of that production, and without the
