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Chauve-Souris. A "ver' goot audience" clattered generous hands, to see Nikita Balieff* in town again. Save a goatee in one scene and a dented derby in another he appeared in his usual evening clothes; and chattered between the acts. He spoke variously of Abraham Lincoln, Marie Antoinette, Otto Kahn (in the fifth row) ; his audience, his premiere danseuse, and his face. To all this the witnesses listened rapt; to his show they were only slightly less attentive...
...Nikita Balieff came Morris Gest-in Paris...
...Only a stupid man would take me to America," said Nikita Balieff. "I speak Russian, the only language nobody understands...
That stupid man took M. Balieff to America. This week Balieff opens in Manhattan for his fifth U. S. season. For himself and for that stupid man he has made endless thousands of dollars; he has stamped his personality on the U. S. amusement mind as one of the few infallibles. He carries with him a Russian vaudeville show; upon which he comments to the audience between the acts in wretched English. This combination is called the Chauve-Souris...
...Balieff is not a Russian at all. He was born in Erzerum, Armenia, of a merchant family which held up their hard worked hands in horror when young Nikita divulged a yearning for the stage. Nikita shrugged his not, in those days, so very hardworked shoulders, deserted the family, who promptly cast him off, and was presently heard knocking at the stage door of the great Art Theatre in Moscow...