Word: carlo
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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According to the Attorney General's office, Mrs. Ann Tomlinson, formerly of Monte Carlo, testified that she had contributed three truckloads of antique furniture, $10,000, and $7.50 a day for a private room at Peace Haven during the summer. (Dormitory accommodations: $2 a day). Investigators said they learned that one woman had lost two rings valued at $5,000 at the retreat, and when she told Mr. Schafer about it he replied: "Nothing is lost in the infinite. You can think them back in your experience...
Freckled, fabulously jeweled Sandra Rambeau, Springfield, Mo. chorus girl who danced at Monte Carlo for the Duke of Kent, Prince Vishnu of Nepal, many another royal admirer, was reported to have been quietly married in Paris to Adolf Hitler's longtime military mentor and president of the Reich Colonial League, 72-year-old Lieut. General Franz Xaver Ritter von Epp, Reichstatthalter for Bavaria...
These three, reunited, were the "baby stars" who seven winters ago, when they were in their teens, began making the U. S. ballet-conscious. Then their director was an ex-Cossack colonel named Wassily de Basil, who founded the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe in the great tradition of the late Serge Diaghilev, named his troupe for the little principality where it first danced. Last week, after many complicated schisms in the Russian ballet, the troupe was called the Original Ballet Russe. Colonel de Basil was still its director. But its boss, who hoped to keep it going in Manhattan through...
...Hurok has another ballet to his string. The Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, directed by swart, 44-year-old Leonide Massine, onetime maitre de ballet for Colonel de Basil, had opened in Manhattan, had now begun a 22-week tour of the U. S. The Massine ballet lacked pretty young stars and its ensemble would not make the Rockettes jealous, but it had two of the world's best ballerinas: dark, svelte British Alicia Markova, who excels in classic ballets like Giselle and Swan Lake, and dark, vivacious Alexandra Danilova, who was in the old Diaghilev company, Danilova -once...
Through the streets of Boston last fortnight clip-clopped a horse ridden by a Negro wearing a ballet costume and a red wig. The plug, advertising the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo (see p. 38), was the bright idea of one of the brightest of young U. S. Museum directors: lanky, fair-haired James Sachs Plaut, of Boston's Institute of Modern Art. Smart Jim Plaut, 28, had arranged for the Institute to sponsor the opening of the Ballet, and to pocket any thing the box office took over $3,000. The Institute pocketed...