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...Ballet (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.). Although he took no credit, he collaborated with Romola Nijinsky on the tragic biography of her husband. No such swift-moving dramatic tale but a rich, fat history of the dance was this week published by Lincoln Kirstein. It proved him no idle dabbler in the subject but an enthusiastic scholar, equipped with information worthy of one twice his years.* If the pattern of Dance is sometimes involved and cluttered, it is because Author Kirstein was unwilling to neglect any phase or style of dancing which even remotely contributed to the evolution...
...dabbler, Iturbi plunged into a program fit to give his hearers an honest test of his ability. He announced that he would begin with two Wagner numbers, Overture to Tannhduser and Prelude to Act i of Lohengrin, then simultaneously play the piano solo and conduct Beethoven's Third Concerto in C Minor, before winding up with the Eroica...
...Forthright, tart-tongued, intellectual, is Daughter Ivy Litvinov. Often a member of Russian delegations in her own right, at Geneva in 1929 she termed U. S. Ambassador Gibson "a contemptible little bounder." A dabbler in literature, she has a mystery thriller to her credit. In Moscow it is her duty to give the best, biggest official parties...
...extremely successful, except among the few students who found his happy sincerity naive. Interesting to many a college man of his generation was last week's news that "Erd" Harris - now an assistant professor at Union Theological Seminary, no longer an extreme Buchmanite, married, and still a dabbler in music and painting - has written a book of advice for young...
...banker and a conductor, Worcester, Mass, (famed for machinery, wire and textile manufacturies) was treated last week to its 71st festival of music. Six years ago New England's oldest festival threatened to snuff out for lack of financial support. President Hamilton B. Wood of Commonwealth Press, a dabbler in musical composition, became indignant at the prospect. He won the support of keen Carpetmaker Matthew P. Whittall and Treasurer Harrison G. Taylor of the local Five Cents Savings Bank. Together these three canvassed the city for subscriptions, engaged Conductor Albert Stoessel. Now the annual concerts in Mechanics Hall are rewarded...