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Died. Twin sons, born to Lord Charles Cavendish, second son of the Duke of Devonshire, and Lady Cavendish (Dancer Adele Astaire); few hours after birth; in London. Two years ago Lady Cavendish lost her first child, a daughter, the day it was born...
...jealous mother had thrown a bottle of vitriol on his father, burning the flesh off his face. In return, the father married her so she would always be on hand when he wanted to beat her. Mottke fled from this violent household with a caravan of traveling acrobats and dancers. Billed as a strong man, he fitted into a wandering life, fell in love with Mary, dark-eyed, passionate little dancer. But Mary was Kanarik's girl, and the money she was given by village admirers went to him. Mottke was too jealous to tolerate such practices, raised moral...
With a rich continental accent, a dapper Italian Count for her manager and a lady-like reticence about her private affairs, Josephine Baker, Negro dancer of Paris, returned to Manhattan to exhibit her acts in a new Ziegfeld Follies. When she left the U. S. ten years ago, she was practically unknown. Daughter of a St. Louis department store porter, she had run away from home, earned $25 per week clowning in the chorus of Shuffle Along...
...Three-Cornered Hat, Scheherazade and Aurora's Wedding, all from the Diaghilev repertory. Settings were by Picasso, Bakst and Benois. all Diaghilev artists. First night cheers went to the youthful ballerinas, Irina Baronova, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Tamara Toumanova. Leonide Massine, the maitre de ballet, was still the surest-footed dancer. David Lichine and Yurek Shavelevsky made the most sensational leaps. After twelve days in Manhattan, the troupe takes to the road again, visits no cities, gives 212 performances in the U. S. and Canada...
...Hart & Porter, the King (Melville Cooper) yearns not for feats of statecraft but to be able to perform tricks of magic. The Queen (Mary Boland) yearns for the handsome biceps of Charles Rausmiller, the cinema's Mowgli. The Prince and Princess yearn respectively for a night-club dancer and an itinerant playwright. On the eve of the King's jubilee, the pressure of boredom sends them all off to satisfy their various yearnings...