Word: demonism
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With the exception of John Harkness, Ross has been the outstanding matman, losing only to Aliman, blind demon from Penn, and to undefeated Zen Mallon of Yale. He scored notable triumphs at Princeton, Navy, and Penn State...
...tree, it is clear that two-and-a-half years' vacation have done Ethel Barrymore good. Her Royal Family tricks are polished up. She lowers her eyebrows and leers Barrymorishly, poses in her swishing draperies. Her voice still sounds like a primeval maiden's wailing for a demon lover. She still brings to the theatre talent in such abundance that, compared to her, most other actresses are as watery custard to rich plum pudding...
...journalism" (in Australia even wilder words are flung), and on the side George McCullagh has done something regarded as bravura even by the Canadian press by deciding to devote huge editorial space in the Globe and Mail to his past adventures with strong drink and present successes in vanquishing Demon...
...offering most favored was a temple dance called Tandrava Nrittya. Shankar became the God Shiva, whirling and gesturing, creating the universe only to destroy it. When his wife died, Shiva fell into grief and a state of meditation. Reincarnated as Parvati, she tried to wake him. When the Elephant-Demon, Gajasura, menaced her, Shiva, awake at last, came to Parvati's defense. In the great fight that followed, the god and the demon threw winds and lightning at each other, the forces of Earth, Air and Sky. Even Shiva's arms which are serpents, did not avail...
...audience, impressed with Shankar's sinuous Shiva, and with the elaborate suppleness of Shankar's French girl, Simkie (only Occidental in the cast), marveled also at the Elephant-Demon as danced by a 21-year-old stripling named Madhavan. Young Madhavan has studied dancing in India since he was 12. This is his first trip to the U. S., his first season with Shankar who considers him a better dancer than himself. Critics, mindful of the subtlety of the older dancer, his hands which can all but hiss like snakes, disagree. But they praise Madhavan for his energy...