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...Bolero (Paramount). Set in the 1910s, this picture features Maurice Ravel's famed composition (written in 1928), calls a cabaret a night club, omits the maxixes and bunny-hugs of the period in favor of jazz steps and a fan dance by Sally Rand. A Belgian-born coal miner named Raoul (George Raft) becomes a dancer. As he rises in the world, he casts off partner after partner because they try to mix pleasure and business. He acquires an able partner in Helen (Carole Lombard), but loses her when he talks of going to war as a good publicity...
...Bolero is supposed to resemble the life of the late Dancer Maurice Mouvet. George Raft dances capably. His costume and appearance are faintly suggestive of the late Rudolph Valentino. With a straight face he recites such lines as: "I trust your marriage has turned out happy." Poor shot: Raft trying to look moved beside his father's grave...
...life of a Pennsylvania of Belgian extraction with a desire to excel in the art of dancing is portrayed in "Bolero." Raoul's existence depended entirely on his ambition, and he was so eager to reach the top that he fired his partners without feeling, and he deserted his night-club in Paris to enlist in the Belgian army in the World War as a publicity stunt. When the war was over, Raoul tried to start again, but his lungs were weak, and his partner was drunk on the opening night. Helen, a former partner of his who had left...
...started their World's Fair concert season. Soprano Claire Dux, wife of Packer Charles Henry Swift, soloed without pay the opening night, brought the house cheering to its feet. Pianist Rudolph Ganz played next night. Ruth Page and a special corps de ballet danced to Ravel's Bolero night after that. Scheduled for this week is an all-Gershwin concert at which Gershwin will play the piano while his friend William Daly conducts; also a Negro night when the premiere of a symphony by Florence B. Trice will be played and the soloists will be Tenor Roland Hayes...
...entire program for the evening is as follows: Orchestra "Veritas" March Densmore "La Bello Helene" Overture Offenbach Caprice on Spanish Themes Rimsky-Korsakov Harvard Glee Club Salvation Belongeth to our God Tschesnokov Les Anges French Carol Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite Handel Orchestra Facade Walton Bolero Ravel Harvard Glee Club At Father's Door Fireflies Russian Folk Songs The Campbells Are Coming Scotch Folk Song Fair Harvard