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...winter will be the revival of Der Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann, probably the season's curtain-raiser. Seekers after the new and curious will have to travel to Cleveland or Philadelphia. In both cities Artur Rodzinski has contracted to conduct Lady Macbeth from Mtsensk, the Soviet success by Dmitri Shostakovich, in which the heroine is heckled into murder by her unhealthy bourgeois surroundings. Metropolitan box-holders who own the shabby old theatre below Times Square made additional news last week when they announced plans to mortgage the house for $600,000 in order to clean it up, modernize...
Until 1220 when Alchemist Albertus Magnus discovered arsenic, mankind knew only ten elements-carbon, sulphur, gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, tin, antimony and mercury. In the next 500 years alchemists discovered only bismuth, zinc and phosphorus. Then scientific chemistry began By 1900, before which time perspicacious Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleyeff figured that there must be 92 elements on earth, no more, no less, chemists had isolated 83. Last discovery of a tangible element, which could be handled and weighed, occurred in 1926 when Professor B. Smith Hopkins of the University of Illinois found Element No. 61 among some rare earths...
...world. He had Fokine create ballets that had true dramatic context. He used settings by Bakst, Derain, later Picasso. He commissioned composers like Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel to write him music. Expense was no item to Sergei Diaghilev. The Russian Ballet was the rage of Europe. Men like Baron Dmitri Gunsburg, Sir Basil Zaharoff and Aga Khan were proud to support it. Diaghilev is the villain of Romola Nijinsky's story, although she freely grants him his tremendous enterprise...
...actually acquainted not only with Rasputin himself, but with Purish-kevitch and the others. I was actually invited by Purishkevitch to murder Rasputin. . . . We had a plot on foot to save the Tsar, but nothing came of it. Chegodiev in the film seemed more like Grand Duke Dmitri. It never occurred to me Natasha was Princess Irina...
...champagne salesman living in Palm Beach with his wife, the onetime Audrey Emery (,f Cincinnati and New York, Grand Duke Dmitri has never written about, described or discussed his part in the murder of Rasputin. Last week he refused to be interviewed about the London trial...