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...Paderewski villa at Merges. Switzerland. She became the pianist's second wife in 1899 and until her illness was his constant companion on all his tours, sitting backstage at every concert. In Wartime she started looking after Polish ''War brides" and their children, established an asylum for 500 of them at Warsaw...
...interested in them. When Col. Vassily de Basil, a onetime Cossack officer who had been putting on Russian opera in Paris, went down to take it over, Princess Charlotte was ready to finance him. Nijinsky was no longer there. His brain had cracked and he was in a Swiss asylum. But there was handsome Leonide Massine who, if not so great a dancer, was a better maltre de ballet, a more brilliant choreographer. And there was Leon Woizikovsky who had done many of Ni- jinsky's roles (Harlequin, Petrouchka, the faun in L'Apres-Midi...
...wrapped up with clumsy neatness. Gauguin left, and soon after the Mayor ordered van Gogh locked up in the insane ward of the hospital. After that there was no telling when the mad fit would seize him, and he would scream till his throat was inflamed. At the asylum at Saint-Remy they let him paint, off & on, eventually released him in care of a doctor, nearer Paris and Theo. But the doctor, an art connoisseur, enraged van Gogh by his cavalier treatment of artists whom his patient revered. One day he terrified the doctor by appearing with a revolver...
Bather In White Plains, N. Y. court J. Bruce Thompson, North Carolina cotton broker, demanded release from the insane asylum to which his brother had had him committed, was asked by the judge: "Isn't it true that at one time you tried to take a bath in corn whiskey?'' Replied J. Bruce Thompson: "I reckon I did try to do that in one of my more debauched moments...
Pancho Augustin Villa Jr., 21. son of the oldtime Mexican bandit, who had been hired by a Hollywood studio to play his father as a young man in a film based on Villa's life, was declared insane by a Los Angeles court, committed to an asylum because he refused to wear clothes, attacked his mother with a piece of scrap iron...