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...ballets that had true dramatic context. He used settings by Bakst, Derain, later Picasso. He commissioned composers like Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel to write him music. Expense was no item to Sergei Diaghilev. The Russian Ballet was the rage of Europe. Men like Baron Dmitri Gunsburg, Sir Basil Zaharoff and Aga Khan were proud to support it. Diaghilev is the villain of Romola Nijinsky's story, although she freely grants him his tremendous enterprise...
...Highness the Aga Khan, Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah: raised to His Majesty's Privy Council. This honor to a useful Moslem was nicely balanced by conferring the same on Hindu Lawyer Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru...
...Doncaster, England, the biggest crowd of the year (300,000) saw England's three-year-old champion, Lord Derby's Derby-winner Hyperion, win the St. Leger Stakes by three lengths, with the Aga Khan's Felicitation second. It was the 26th time a Derby winner had won the St. Leger. Hyperion's sire, Gainsborough...
Born. To the Aga Khan III, 57, Indian prince, sportsman, direct descendant of Mohammed and spiritual leader of all Ismaili Moslems; and the Begum Aga Khan, 34, his Roman Catholic wife, one-time French dressmaker; a son. their first; in the American Hospital. Paris. Name: Sadruddin Aga. The Aga Khan's legal and spiritual heir remains his son AH. 26, resident of England, by a first wife...
...competent to speak for India? Mr. Ganhdi continued to squat in Yerovda Jail last week, "during His Majesty's pleasure." At the Conference in London sat no representative of Mr. Gandhi's Indian Nationalist Party and not even a Prince or Maharaja of importance. True, the Aga Khan was there but he is the merest British puppet and the head of no Indian state. The Labor Party of Great Britain declined, some weeks ago. to sit in at the Conference because the present British "National" (Conservative) Government has so obviously packed the Conference with Indian...