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Most prominent victim of the Soviet ban was Dmitri Shostakovich, Soviet composer-laureate, whose tricky, sensational opera Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, introduced to the U. S. in 1935 (TIME, Feb. 11, 1935), had become the rage of Manhattan's intellectuals. Lady Macbeth of Mzensk was withdrawn from Soviet theatres.* Composer Shostakovich's subsequent ballet, The Limpid Stream, was also withdrawn after a panning by Moscow critics, and his Fourth Symphony was suppressed without a performance. For two years Shostakovich was in the doghouse...
Divorced. Dmitri Pavolvitch Romanoff, Grand Duke of Russia, co-assassin with Prince Felix Youssoupov of Rasputin; from Her Serene Highness Princess Anna Ilyinski, formerly Audrey Emery, inheritor of $6,000,000 from the leather fortune of Cincinnati's John Josiah Emery; in Bayonne, France...
Divorced. Mrs. Margot Einstein Marianoff of Princeton, N. J., daughter of Scientist Professor Albert Einstein, by a preliminary decree from Dmitri Marianoff, writer, on the grounds of desertion...
...associate, Max Goberman, onetime pupil of Leopold Auer, onetime violinist in the Philadelphia Orchestra, at present assistant concertmaster in Andre Kostelanetz' radio orchestra. Messrs. Waldman and Goberman declare that their firm, which will issue an old and a new work every month (first new one: two octets by Dmitri Shostakovich), will put profits, if any, into the making of more & better discs...
...stirred abroad, and being a courageous man the Soviet economist persisted that morning in his habit of taking a brisk constitutional in the Bois de Boulogne. Several witnesses last week heard and saw what happened. A man with a pistol coolly fired three shots at close range, next grappled Dmitri Navachine, drove home four blows with a long thin knife, and nimbly escaped as Paris passers-by rushed to help the stricken man but only drew to themselves the snarling attentions of his two big dogs. These faithful beasts stood guard over their stricken master as he lay weltering...