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...Hurok bagged Dancer Anna Pavlova, who called him "Hurokchik." In the next four years her tours, on which he often accompanied her. netted the two of them $500,000. Two other Hurok dancers were the late Isadora Duncan, who fortified herself with whiskey and champagne, left a confetti-like whirl of bouncing checks wherever she went; and Loie Fuller, whose tour was supposed to be keyed to the ludicrous U. S. progress of her friend Queen Marie of Rumania. Other attractions launched in the U. S. by Hurok: Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Contralto Marian Anderson, Dancer Mary Wigman, the Vienna Choir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: S. HUROK PRESENTS. . . . | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...Died. Anna, 39, talented Metropolitan Opera House mare; of old age; in Rockleigh, N. J. Onetime mount of Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik, for 25 years she shared honors with Caruso and Martinelli in Aida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 1, 1940 | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

Divorced. Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, after 23 years of marriage; by Anna Margaret Munch Nye; in a five-minute court proceeding; in Fargo, N. D. He is the second member of the present Senate to be divorced while in office. The first: Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo of Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 25, 1940 | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...Anna, married to Curtis Dall, 1926; divorced, 1934; married to John Boettiger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: My Dear Children | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...always what they appear. During the past six months Count Csáky made frequent trips to Germany which were interpreted as meaning that Hungary was drawing closer to Germany. Last week the suave, ambitious, reckless, 45-year-old Count's engagement to beautiful, 28-year-old Countess Anna Maria Chorinsky was announced. Those trips to Germany, it appeared, were just to court the pretty lady at her family castle near Graz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Budapest pests | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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