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When Chicago reorganized its opera last year Ruth Page's ambition was to build up a ballet which, free from stuffy traditions, would provide as good entertainment as the operas themselves. Directors had so much faith in Dancer Ruth Page that they broke all opera precedent. Beginning last week they allotted her Friday evenings for ballet and ballet alone...
Besides the regular four divisions of the organization, a number of specialties have been developed to round out the program including a double quartet, trio, banjo quartet, magician, piano soloist, juggler and unicyclist, and tap dancer...
...Divorcee (RKO). In adapting the successful musicomedy which kept Dancer Fred Astaire busy for a year in Manhattan and London, RKO's most apparent change was to insert an accent and an extra e in the last word of the title. This should cause no greater harm than mispronunciation among cinemaddicts. For the rest, the picture sticks to the pattern of its footlight original, with satisfactory results. Fred Astaire is still the centre of whatever plot there is. A dancer on a European holiday, he pursues a young lady (Ginger Rogers) who is seeking divorce from an absurd geologist...
Marshalled by a retired Cossack colonel, 64 young Russian dancers invaded Manhattan last winter, set up shop with a 50-piece orchestra, crates of colorful scenery, 6,000 costumes, and forthwith proceeded to prove that the ballet still exists as a great & glamorous art (TIME, Jan. 1). Nearly 25,000 U. S. readers, many of whom had never seen a Russian ballet, caught much of its fascination from Nijinsky, the mad dancer's biography written by his Hungarian wife Romola, who blames her husband's insanity on the late great Serge Diaghilev (TIME, March 19). Last week Arnold...
...Hutton in a skit, ''Jimmy" Donahue minced onstage in a princely uniform, fawned over the lady's hand. No one in the audience noticed the substitution, but it was the last straw for the managers of As Thousands Cheer. "Chet" O'Brien lost his job. Dancer Miller followed him out of the show...