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...your issue of Aug. 23 reviewing "Souls at Sea," your critic said Olympe Bradna was "picturesquely born of two bareback riders between performances at the Olympe Theatre in Paris...
...wrong twice. Mme Bradna told me at a cocktail party recently that she and her husband had a trained dog act. Had Olympe been born of a bareback rider immediately after a performance, it would have been picturesque indeed! Secondly, the theatre is the well-known Olympia...
...lounge scurried the newshawks to tell Maria Gregorievna Rasputin Solovief of the great man's disappointment. Said she, in German: "I am so sorry ... er ... who is he?" The daughter of Russia's "Mad Monk" Gregory Rasputin was on her way to Peru, Ind., to ride bareback, train lions and tigers for the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. For nine years Trainer Rasputin has been traveling with European circuses. Imprisoned during the Revolution, she escaped, fled from Russia to Siberia to France, where her husband died six years later. To support her two daughters, she first danced in a Russian...
...last nine years the Technicum has been training clowns, acrobats, jugglers and bareback riders for the 150-odd circuses which are perpetually junketing up & down & across the Soviet Union, furnishing entertainment which the "little brothers" like almost as well as cinemas. To U. S. circus troupers, toughened in the service of Barnum's, the Technicum's method of training is apt to seem funnier than the serious-minded clowns it produces...
Thursday Evening, May 24 *Military Polonaise Chopin *Overture to "Leonore" No 3 Beethoven *Ballet from "Rosamunde" Schubert *Spanish Dance from "La Vida Breve" de Falla "Cricus Day," Fantasy (Eight Pictures from Memory) Op. 8 Deems Taylor I. Street Parade II. The Big Top III. Bareback Riders IV. a. The Lion Cage b. The Dog and Monkey Circus c. The Waltzing Elephant V. Tight-Rope Walker VI. Jugglers VII. Clowns (First Performance in Boston) *Concerto for Pianoforte No. 2 in G minor Saint-Saens Soloist: Elizabeth Trvers Behnke *Victor Herbert Favorites Arranged by Sanford *To a Water Lily MacDowell Trepak Russian...