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Last week in Pittsburgh this old battle was once more raging. Its centre was the person of the fat, gimlet-eyed, Carpathian-born bishop of the Carpatho-Russians, Rt. Rev. Basil Takach. Sent to the U. S. in 1924, Bishop Takach had won instant approval by ordaining married men to the priesthood. But in 1929 another apostolic letter was issued by the Vatican, this one forbidding bishops to appoint married priests to Greek Rite posts. Bishop Takach obeyed the order, but in Bridgeport, Conn., a priest dared not only oppose it but circularized Greek Catholic churches to stir up more...
...Ryan Jr., grandson of the late great Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan and secretary to Manhattan's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, to Jean Harder, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan. Mr. Ryan's 1934 marriage to Austrian Countess Marie Anne Paule Ferdinandine von Wurmbrand-Stuppack was annulled. His cousin, Basil ("Pat") Ryan, was married three weeks ago while "full of North Carolina corn," to one Martha Barkley. 21, mother of a two-months-old child...
...missing from the de Basil line-up this year is Tamara Toumanova-one of the three ballerinas who at their debuts were so publicized for their beauty and tender years. She is now in Hollywood. In her absence Sono Osato, a Japanese-American trained under Adolph Bolm, one of the company's youngest dancers (17), is by far its most exotic looking. As a dancer, she has not yet advanced beyond petit sujet (ranking in ballet hierarchy above a corypheé, below a grand sujet). Irina Baronova, now 18, is a brilliant and imaginative artist, still addicted to lengthening...
This week Dancer Lichine, increasingly a disciplined, powerful artist, showed his mettle as a choreographer who may be useful to Colonel de Basil when veteran Massine departs. The troupe's three other new ballets were all done by him, performed in London during the summer. The Gods Go ABegging, music by Handel, is an old Diaghilev work, with old scenery by Bakst. With décor by Pierre Roy, French modernist, The Amorous Lion is based on a fable by La Fontaine which begins with this couplet: Love, love, when you invade our hearts, That moment common sense departs...
...Cowles took an apartment in Minneapolis to be close to the job and returned hard-bitten General Manager John Thompson to the publisher's post which he held until 1935. To edit the Star ably, Owners Cowles shifted from their Des Moines Register & Tribune 200-Ib. Managing Editor Basil Leon ("Stuffy") Walters, whose stubby nose scents news leagues away...