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...Night Is Young (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This pallid operetta deals heavily with a princeling's love for a commoner. The Austrian emperor's nephew and heir (Ramon Novarro) is enamored of a big-eyed, winsome ballet dancer (Evelyn Laye), hired to cover his dalliance with a countess. Duty demands that he marry a princess and in the end he does so but not before he and the dancer spend an apparently comfortable night on top of a Ferris wheel...
...forbidding with its predominant brasses. Stravinsky's smaller works would seem like sketches if it were not for his sure, crafty workmanship, his uncanny gift for making each instrument behave like a soloist. In March Boston will pass verdict on his ballet Persephone, lately produced in Paris by Dancer Ida Rubenstein...
Newshawks were not long tracing down the author of the fantastic pamphlet. Indeed, the only nonfictional name in it was hers, as defense counsel. She was Mrs. Mary Belle Spencer, crusading Chicago attorney. Last year gaunt white-haired Mrs. Spencer made news by having Dancer Sally Rand arrested for indecent exposure. Mrs. Spencer has brought up two young daughters on a strictly self-expressionistic plan. Once, when they threw their Christmas tree out a window, their mother recalls that "it was hard not to say anything. But I didn't even turn my head." (TIME, Sept...
...husband in order to have more time to run her brother's affairs. In March he was thrashed by German Walter Neusel. In May, he went to a hospital, for a minor breakdown. In August, he married one Rosie Glickman ("Roxanne Carmine"), World's Fair fan dancer. A month later, Rosie Glickman sued King Levinsky for divorce because he hit her on the jaw. Last month, King Levinsky was matched to fight a four-round bout against Heavyweight Champion Max Baer in the Chicago Stadium. Instead of treating the affair as a friendly exhibition, Champion Baer insulted King...
...religion ferments more vigorously, pious mummery was introduced long ago, notably by Rev. Dr. William Norman Guthrie. Currently Manhattan's religious dancing is provided not in Dr. Guthrie's church of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie but in those which are welcoming stately, white-haired Dancer Ruth St. Denis, 54, good Christian Scientist. Three years ago Miss St. Denis founded a Society for the Spiritual Arts whose 100 members meet weekly in her studio for readings from the world's great prophets -Buddha, Christ, Mohammed, Zoroaster, Krishna et al. Before an altar, serious-minded Miss...