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...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news: In Evanston, Ill., dancer Mariana Michalska (Gilda Gray) was enlisted to boost ticket sales for Northwestern Uni- versity's senior ball. A band played. Dancer Gray pranced. Northwesterners bought three tickets, suggested she take off her coat. She fled...
...conspiracy to violate California's Juvenile Court Act at hotel parties in San Diego last Autumn for which young girls were shipped in from Los Angeles. Pantages is at present at liberty under $100,000 bond since his conviction (TIME, Nov. 4, 1929) of attacking 17-year-old Dancer Eunice Pringle. He declared the new charges were "just dirt" dug up by his enemies to hurt his appeal in the Pringle case...
...rumor ran through Manhattan last week to the effect that Dancers Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn were to be divorced and that Dancer Shawn would desert the Denishawn School for a teaching partnership with Bill Robinson, Negro tap-dancer. To many it seemed an odd arrangement: Dancer Shawn does his leaps and bounds, usually half clad, in an earnest attempt to interpret fundamental moods. Natty little Dancer Robinson keeps his clothes on, is famed for his wide grin, his slick, metronomic way of hoofing up & down a flight of steps, and for being able to run backwards...
...life when her story opens. She has been the devoted, deceived, finally disillusioned wife of a fashionable portrait painter, and her divorce, she thought, put the quietus on any further flutterings of the heart. But not so. Although she takes very seriously, professionally, impersonally her job as music-hall dancer and she and her partner are on a mutually unaffectionate business basis she wants someone to love. When gawky, rich, but sincere Max Dufferein- Chautel presents himself, suffused with gawky and sincere emotion, at her dress-ing-room she is merely annoyed, brusquely kicks him out. He gets himself properly...
...traveled widely and seen much of other married folk, deep-dimpled Paul Whiteman, famed jazz maestro, last week felt justified in delivering himself of some lay observations on the holy state of matrimony. Further justification for his remarks seemed to lie in the fact that he and his spouse, Dancer Vanda Hoff, had just, after several attempts at reconciliation, obtained a divorce...