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Petrushka, a ballet about a silly, tragic rag doll with a soul, by Igor Stravinsky, was revived last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. There was only one Russian in the cast. He, Adolph Bolm, took the part of the sawdust Caliban, capered foolishly, pathetically, to his special tune- a fanfare for two trumpets a minor second apart. Rosina Galli was the limber ballerina. At the end of the performance, Mr. Stravinsky was discovered to be present, hailed before the curtain, presented with an overstuffed floral wreath, according to Metropolitan tradition...
...Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of The New York Times wrote...
...Signed) "ADOLPH S. OCHS...
...nearest approach is Appleton's' Cyclopedia of American Biography, six volumes, now 35 years of age. But, last week, the Nation was told it would receive a present. Perceiving that it was most improbable that any publisher of books would ever underwrite so vast an undertaking, Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of The New York Times declared his paper would advance $500,000 to the American Council of Learned Societies Devoted to Humanistic Studies, for the creation of 20 volumes containing the lives of some 20,000 illustrious Americans, including none of the living. The Times sought to assume...
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