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...week. They were personified by Paul Petroff, Léonide Massine, Alexandra Danilova, Tatiana Riabouchinska and David Lichine of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, starting a six-month U. S. tour. Balletomanes were pleasantly surprised to find Massine still a member of the troupe. Successful Impresario Wassily de Basil (whose last two U. S. tours grossed more than $1,000,000 each) had temporarily made up his differences with his maître de ballet and choreographer (TIME, Aug. 30). But Massine will join René Blum's ballet next year with a new U. S. corporation, World...
...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...
...responsibilities would prevent him from holding office or taking an active part in the foundation, but hinted that he might like to become its head after leaving the White House. The Foundation's personnel was not disclosed last week, but it was generally supposed that Keith Morgan and Basil O'Connor, both top men at Warm Springs, would occupy high posts...