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...years, the U.S. had gained nearly 19 million people-the biggest increase in its history, and greater than the combined populations of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The population of the U.S., according to the tentative census figures released last week, now stands at 150,520,198. The massive westward shift of the U.S. people would perceptibly change the traditional political balance...
...Despite guest invasions by famed Choreographers Michel Fokine in 1925 and George Balanchine in 1930, Denmark's company has largely resisted Russian influences. The Danes saw their first Swan Lake in 1938, when it was already 60 years...
...writing his famous Lettres sur la Danse (1760), Copenhagen's Royal Danish Ballet was just ten years old. But under a Noverre pupil named Antoine Bournonville and his son Auguste, the Danes learned so well that their company soon became one of the best in Europe. Last week Denmark's 200-year-old Royal Ballet, which now bows only to England's crack Sadler's Wells Company in Western Europe, was putting on a special 14-night summer festival. Danish balletomanes saw the full current repertoire of 21 ballets-most of them native productions* which...
Died. W. W. Yen (Yen Hunching), 73, Chinese elder statesman and onetime Prime Minister (1924-26) of the Republic of China; in Shanghai. After the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty by Sun Yat-sen in 1911, frail, U.S.-educated Dr. Yen served as a diplomat to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the U.S., the U.S.S.R. He came out of retirement last year to head an unofficial four-man mission to Peking which tried unsuccessfully to make peace with the Communists...
CountryDollar Value Austria (shillings) 25.83 Belgium (francs) 50.00 Czech, (crowns) 50.00 Denmark (kroner) 6.89 France (francs) 350.00 Italy (lira) 624.00 Germany (marks) 4.20 Holland (guilders) 3.84 Norway (kroner) 7.11 Sweden (kroner) 5.16 Switz. (francs) 4.32 Sterling England (pound) $2.80 Ireland (pound) $2.80 Scotland (pound...