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...Teatro Comunale in ancient Florence one night last spring, it seemed to the swank audience watching the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, part of the city's "Musical May" festival, that Dancer Leonide Massine was behaving oddly indeed. Dark, wiry, as fleet-footed as ever for his years (40), the maître de ballet and choreographer of the famed troupe did not appear to have his mind entirely on his work. He kept glancing toward the wings, grimacing and nodding at someone offstage. When the curtain fell, Massine hastened backstage. There, summoned by urgent telegrams both from Massine...
...Massine had seen while taking part in the ballet, the Italians had conversed earnestly with Colonel de Basil, and as the dancer well knew, the tall impresario had been dickering to sign them up for his troupe before Massine could get off the stage. Massine, too, wanted the No. 1 de Basil to take charge of another ballet group. But Massine's onstage frenzies and his backstage pleadings were no use: Colonel de Basil won Radice (and Fabbri) with offers of $700 apiece per month on any U. S. tour he might take them on, $450 in England...
...Berkshire concerts to be given during the fortnight, the audience of 5,500-near capacity of the temporary tent-was as impeccable and polite as any in Symphony Hall or Carnegie Hall, included such folk as Violinists Efrem Zimbalist, Albert Spalding, Jacques Gordon, Mrs. E. Parmalee (Alta Rockefeller) Prentice, Dancer Ted Shawn, Mrs. Alvan T. Fuller (wife of Massachusetts' onetime Governor), U. S. Ambassador-at-large Norman Hezekiah Davis, Novelist Owen Johnson, Mrs. Edward S. Harkness and many another social column name. Most of them sat in boxes which were shrewdly placed in a double row in the middle...
Abroad. The same night that Mary Binney Montgomery pretended to be in Paris, Philadelphia Dancer Catherine Littlefield, her former teacher, actually was in Paris, winning even greater praise for her ballet impressions of the U. S. The Littlefield troupe had gone abroad early in the summer, expecting to be the first U. S. troupe to do so (TIME, Feb. 22). Everywhere they went they were a sensation. In Paris they danced eleven times in a week. President Lebrun attended opening night. U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt, himself a Philadelphian, kissed Catherine Littlefield on both cheeks when the performance...
...Starlight Roof of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Dancer Roberta Jonay (Jones), recently a fortnight guest at the White House (TIME, June 21), made her big time debut doing a Hungarian folk dance. Back at her ringside table she received the congratulations of her guests: Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Boettiger, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., whose friendship she won after being introduced by her fiance. Earl Miller, onetime (1929-32) Albany bodyguard to the President, now personnel director of the New York State Department of Correction. The California Osteopathic Association attributed much of the success of dancers...