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...similar. The narrative frameworks of both pictures-the inception and production of a Broadway show-are identical. This time the suspense is caused not by a chorus girl's big chance to be a star but by a mysterious young song writer (Dick Powell) in love with a dancer (Ruby Keeler 1. He turns out to be a rich Boston socialite. When his older brother (Wrarren William) and the family attorney (Kibbee) arrive to break up his romance, they stay to marry two of the dancer's friends. All this farcical to-do is interrupted from time...
Debussy never finished Mrs. Hall's Rhapsodie. His last ambitious work was an order from Poet Gabriele d'Annunzio who wanted music for his Martyre de Saint-Sébastien to give to his mistress. Dancer Ida Rubinstein. Debussy's idolaters like to call Saint-Sébastien the great French Parsifal. Stage performances are never given to bear out their belief. The few concert performances have made it seem like the product of a tired, sterile mind. The War cast a final blight on Debussy's creative powers. One of his last feeble works...
...from the first 300 applicants picked ten of the likeliest. The art pupils served as models for others to paint, played the piano for others to dance, scrubbed the floors for singing lessons, typed letters for violin lessons. Because of a Polish cook's desire to make a dancer of her daughter, the faculty has been fed. There have been enough cash pupils to pay the rent. Since then they have been busy as a brewery. When reporters called last week a perspiring carpenter was revolving slowly before a large mirror. For putting up light fixtures and partitions...
Farmer Schroeder declared he fed his hogs only high-grade refuse from Northwestern University and fine cafes. Furthermore, he complained, the 110-lb. one-time dancer had "pushed and bruised" him (270-lb.) when he tried to keep her off his farm. He had not, he admitted, used "Bible talk" in remonstrating with her, but neither had she. "She called me names I don't believe proper to mention here...
...Spanish Embassy in London one night last week, Edward of Wales sat on a gilded chair during a function in honor of Vice President Julio Roca of Argentina, a friend of his Empire Salesman days. Before him gyrated a sinuous Spanish dancer, her hair set with jaunty combs and a rose. As she stomped through a lively jota, one comb fell out. H. R. H. swooped it up, returned it with a bow. At the next paseo the lady with flashing eyes shook out two more combs and the rose. There were loud cries of "Que hombre! Ole Ole!!" Edward...