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Famed male dancers are the Russians Mikhail Mordkin and Adolph Bolm, the American Ted Shawn, the Japanese Michio Ito and the German Harald Kreutzberg. Kreutzberg, who, according to many, leads them all today, is 24. He was once a designer for a small fashion magazine, then a dance pupil of the modernist Mary Wigman, then head of the Hanover Opera ballet. He came first to the U. S. last year with Max Reinhardt's players and last fortnight he came again, with Danseuse Yvonne Georgi, for a series of performances under the management of that doughty oldtime stage-lady...
Venom v. Epilepsy. When Dr. do Amaral reached Manhattan last week he had with him 40 South American snakes, present for Raymond Lee Ditmarks, curator of reptiles at the New York Zoological Park. Dr. Ditmarks fondly sorted the snakes. As he was doing so, Dr. Adolph Monaelesser, retired Manhattan physician, visited him. Dr. Monaelesser was President McKinley's surgeon of the Red Cross during the Spanish-American War. Lately he has been doing private research on epilepsy. His visit to the zoo was for some venom of the black African cobra. Dr. Ditmarks has the only...
...Coquette, Mary Pickford film now in production, Mrs. Arthur Loew, daughter-in-law of the late Marcus Loew, only daughter of Adolph Zukor (TIME, Jan. 14) earned $7.50 per day as an extra...
Having made up his mind, he returned last week to Manhattan. And everyone of the least importance in his Hollywood plant was left to read a book which he had given them. That book is the story of Adolph Zukor and of the shadowland he dominates...
...phrase that ended one struggle, began another. Since getting out of the steamer Russia at Castle Garden, with $40 in bills sewed in the pocket of his second-best waistcoat, Adolph Zukor had been busy all the time. First, for $2 a week, he helped an upholsterer, but he weighed less than 100 pounds then, and pushing down sofa and chair springs while he wove fabric round them was too hard for him. Feeling his strength passing, he got a new job in a furrier's shop, and after working for several years started a little business...