* He teased Diaghilev. ‘You don’t direct, you don’t dance, you don’t play the piano, what is it you do?’ Diaghilev replied, ‘Your Majesty, I am like you: I don’t do anything, but I am indispensable.’ (R. Davenport-Hine, A Night at the Majestic, 2006, pp. 17–18.)