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Died. Colonel Vasily de Basil, 63, onetime Czarist Cossack cavalryman, who in 1932 founded the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with the largest segment of the late Impresario Diaghilev's disbanded Ballet Russe; of a heart attack; in Paris. With such dancers as Danilova, Toumanova and Lichine he made the company popular and temporarily profitable (at least two of his U.S. tours grossed as high as $1,000,000 each...
...redheaded daughter of Joseph Dzhugashvili, better known as Stalin; and Mikhail Kaganovich, son of Lazar Kaganovich, longtime Politburo member and Stalin's brother-in-law; in Moscow, July 3. British and Swiss newspapers said the nuptial feast in the Kremlin lasted a fortnight, with refreshments served on Czarist gold plate and sped with pink Crimean champagne, sweet Armenian peach brandy and vodka. Cost...
Original Goethe. The school's faculty are all civilians, but not all trained teachers. One Czech instructor was a judge in Prague; a Russian was the son of a czarist general; a Rumanian D.P. was a stock boy in a Detroit department store. But in their own lands, many were noted scholars; they have come to the school via concentration camps, from jobs as elevator men and lemon pickers, and in some cases from U.S. university faculties. To make sure they keep in touch with student problems, all teachers must put in time on an unfamiliar language...
...Czarist Parallel. Few historians are better equipped to tell this story than Briton Arthur Bryant. In two previous books (The Years of Endurance, Years of Victory), he covered the decades 1793-1812 with the grasp of a Gibbon, the imagination of an epic novelist. The Age of Elegance is the last of a trilogy and, if anything, more readable than the others...
...youth, Marinotti worked in Russia for an Italian textile firm and exhibited annually in Czarist Moscow. Back in Italy, he made a secret of his art, concentrated on being a tycoon...