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Petrushka, a ballet about a silly, tragic rag doll with a soul, by Igor Stravinsky, was revived last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. There was only one Russian in the cast. He, Adolph Bolm, took the part of the sawdust Caliban, capered foolishly, pathetically, to his special tune- a fanfare for two trumpets a minor second apart. Rosina Galli was the limber ballerina. At the end of the performance, Mr. Stravinsky was discovered to be present, hailed before the curtain, presented with an overstuffed floral wreath, according to Metropolitan tradition...
...three days, various sorts of dogs padded around a sawdust circle-terriers, shepherds, spaniels, collies, retrievers, chihauhuas, whippets, elk-hounds, greyhounds, wolfhounds, setters, pointers, pinschers, griffons, poodles, pugs, Newfoundlands, Pomeranians, beagles, basset hounds, bulldogs-while humans in corresponding variety watched them with admiring gaze. At last, after many ribbons had been awarded, it was time to decide which was the best...
Evening. In the tabernacle-tent of the evangelist, every yellow chair and all the sawdust aisles were filled. Six weeks had he labored for this hour. Half the town (Elmira, N. Y.), as they sang hymns of salvation, saw their sins stand horrible and naked before them. The evangelist leapt to the rostrum, proclaimed his text: "THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH." Finally, said he: "No person in whose heart reposes guilty knowledge need expect to make peace with God until full confession is first made." Dawn. In police headquarters, a night captain leaned drowsily over his desk. He felt...
...dusky form that was lifted, groaning, out of the sawdust...
...broad-jumping pit, a dusky form plunked into the sawdust, was lifted out, groaning. De Hart Hubbard, Michigan Negro, had won for America, had made his winning jump despite the excruciating pain of a pulled tendon. Ned Gourdin, Harvard Negro, leaped to second place...