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Tomorrow night in Paine Hall, the Radcliffe and Harvard Music Clubs are presenting a free concert of interesting old works which are rarely heard. Also to be heard and seen in the near future is the Indian dancer, Mona Rani, and her Hindu musicians, who are coming to Jordan Hall next Tuesday evening...
...Quietly, as if entranced, she spoke to her maid: "Marguerite! My swan costume!" As if she were hearing an unseen orchestra, Anna Pavlova lifted her arms, fluttered her hands. "Play that last measure softly," she murmured. And before the world realized that she was seriously ill the great Russian dancer was dead...
...London Symphony, conducted by Vladimir Launitz, onetime Russian aviator, who once was Pavlova's musical director. Effects on the screen were sometimes hazy. Many of the pictures had been taken in 1923, some in South America, some in Australia. But it was still possible to marvel at the dancer's incomparable grace, that ethereal quality which made it seem as if she floated through...
...swan. Dandre hid behind a bush to take the picture with a small sound camera, recorded his wife's curious, high-pitched voice as she called: "Come on, Jack, come Jacko, oh darling." Members of the audience who knew Pavlova regretted the intimate scene. The dancer allowed no intrusion into her private life, kept her marriage secret for 17 years...
Leni Riefenstahl is the 28-year-old daughter of a Berlin plumber who, like Adolf Hitler, went on to better times. She began her career as a ballet dancer in Munich in 1923. By 1930, she was one of her country's leading cinema stars, noted for her daring in playing dangerous sequences without a double, her fondness for being photographed in mountainous scenery, her nickname of "Ölige Ziege" (Oily Goat), impolitely coined by a German cinema critic. In 1933, U. S. audiences were able to see Fraulein Riefenstahl in an epic called S. O. S. Iceberg, during...