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Died. Doris Keane, 63, star of the 1913 stage hit Romance, who married and divorced her leading man, Basil Sydney (said she: "Romance and marriage are two different things"); in Manhattan...
...Wolf, which he wrote to help children identify orchestral instruments, that Prokofiev is mainly known to the U.S. man in the street. He brought the piece to Koussevitsky, tartly recommending it as suitably infantile for Boston and its critics - who had severely panned his Fourth Symphony. Cinemactor Basil Rathbone and Actor-Singer Richard Hale as narrators have made recordings which are now perennial Christmas best sellers. Last season it was played twelve times by U.S. symphony orchestras; it was also dance-timed by Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians (TIME, Nov. 12). In U.S. phonograph-record sales - principally because...
After Impresario Diaghilev's death, the Ballet Russe was taken over by an ex-Cossack, Colonel Wassily de Basil, has since split into a number of pieces, each claiming to be the truest chip off the old block. Markova eventually became No. 1 ballerina of the heavily subsidized, well-promoted Ballet Theatre. Danilova has spent seven years as queen bee of a company called the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, which has a ballet corps well drilled in ex-Husband Balanchine's intricate geometric designs but is woefully short of top dancers...
...third floor of an old limestone house at 3323 North Kenmore Avenue on Chicago's North Side is the headquarters of the Holy Eastern Orthodox Catholic and Apostolic Church's small (nine members) Society of Clerks Secular of St. Basil, founded in 1931. It is also the rectory of St. Thomas Eastern Orthodox Church and the home of a Stewart-Warner production control clerk. The clerk's name, as written on his doorbell card: "The Very Reverend Cyprian Matthiesen, Society of St. Basil...
...Society of Clerks Secular of St. Basil, Father Matthiesen believes that he has found a nonnational, nonracial avenue for carrying the message of Orthodox Catholicism to Western people in their own terms. So far he has made some 30 converts among the Danes, Swedes, Poles and Germans in the neighborhood of his church at 3716 West Belmont Avenue...