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...play "The Theatre of the Scul," one of the few monodramas of Evreinov which has been translated into English, he conveys to his audience the emotions of a man torn between two loves, one for a dancer the other for his wife. He employs characters of a symbolic nature such as "The Reasonable Self" and "The Emotional Self". These characters engage in a sort of Jekyll-Hyde conflict, terminating in a decision to love the dancer wholeheartedly and final suicide on the part of the "actor" whose emotions are being depicted to the audience. The entire action of the play...
...shows that have resolutely kept away from Manhattan, supposedly the money Mecca of the Theatre, and done its road tour first. There are still several companies playing in the smaller cities. The Broadway troupe is headed by Louise Groody and Charles Winninger, as pretty a dancer and as funny a fool as the town now boasts. Mr. Winninger is a married man with a soft heart and a fat head. He falls for the hard luck stories of wandering females and helps to finance their lonely lives. To this his wife, quite properly, objects. There is much excellent dancing...
...small blue and gold airplane postured above them in a sunbeam. It climbed against a curtain of cloud, glided in minute undulations as if it ran on tiptoes, then pirouetted sharply with a flash of light like a little cry, while the sunbeam gravely lighted a ballet dancer. And always that strange sound accompanied the dance?a sound pleasant and terrifying, like the reverberation of an enormouse cello-string. But it was more, it was increditable, that sound. ... as if the god Pan were snoring...
...Leningrad arrived John Maynard Keynes with Mrs. Keynes (Lupokova, the famed Russian dancer). He was present as guest of the Academy of Sciences-representative of Cambridge University at the Academy's bicentenary. To Soviet pressmen the celebrated economist spoke as follows...
This year it rose upon Frances Alda, Beniamino Gigli, Giuseppe de Luca, Adam Didur, upon dancer a la Russe Adolph Bolm. In former years it has risen upon Caruso, Ruffo, Martinelli, Galli-Curci, upon famed and glorious chanteur a la Russe Chaliapin...