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Among the standout performers: Character Dancer Gerda Karstens, as a dour old Quaker lady whose stiff movements and deadpan face seemed to disapprove of what her feet were doing; lithe, pretty Ballerina Inge Sand, who danced Delibes' Coppélia on the second night; Erik Bruhn, who bounded through the Nutcracker; and Frank Schaufuss and Mona Vangsaa, who gave a touching performance of ill-fated young love in Romeo and Juliet. Londoners, used to the heady perfection of Sadler's Wells, loved the more natural Danes, brought them back again & again to bow to the applause-a thrill...
Translation: Dancer Bruhn 1) leaps nicely, 2) beats his legs together poorly, 3) dances with too pronounced a beat...
Some other critical verdicts were harder to follow. Reported New York Times Dance Critic John Martin, after watching a Ballet Theatre performer in a pas de deux from The Nutcracker: "Mr. Bruhn has nice elevation but a weak batterie, and indulges in a good deal of unnecessary ictus...
...member of Walter Camp's All-Time-All- America team. After graduation, he entered brokerage and insurance. His first wife was Sophie Meldrim, Savannah, Ga. socialite who divorced him in 1925. His second was Actress Jeanne Eagels, who divorced him in 1928. His third was one Lottie Bruhn of El Paso, Tex., who dropped from sight after his death last September. Last week, as the pawnbroker wrote to Skull & Bones in New Haven which immediately bought Coy's relics, newshawks hustled around to see Lottie Bruhn Coy, found her working as a servant. Said...
...Hinchliffe had introduced a clause into the amendments to the Elections Act requiring naturalized citizens ''to take an oath, when voting, that they have not been bribed or corrupted." Mr. Bruhn, pointing out that he himself, a Cabinet Minister, would be obliged to take this "insulting oath" should the measure become law attacked it with such vigor that the clause was dropped. "Countless naturalized citizens," cried the triumphant ex-Swede, "have just as high and just as intelligent an appreciation of British citizenship as has Joshua Hinchliffe...