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...pinko New Republic has been found by the New Leader to show symptoms of "totalitarian liberalism" and also to be "a journal of subsidized opinion." (The New Republic, non-interventionist until a few months before Pearl Harbor, shifted to reflect the views of its owner, Mrs. Leonard K. Elmhirst. U.S.-born, she has become a British citizen, was co-founder of the New Republic with her late husband, Willard Straight...
Married. Actress Beatrice Whitney Straight, niece of the late Harry Payne Whitney, daughter of New Republic Co-Founder Mrs. Leonard Elmhirst; and Louis Dolivet, a Free French leader in Manhattan; in Des Moines, Iowa...
Shankar plans a short U. S. tour this season, a long one in 1938. After that he hopes to open an All-India Centre of Hindu Arts in Benares, backed by rich connoisseurs like Mrs. Leonard Elmhirst...
...highly athletic dancing. By way of a happy medium Jooss and Cohen devise programs in which dance and music are, for better or for worse, interdependent. Financial backing was the chief Jooss need after the U. S. visit in 1933. In England the sponsor was found-Mrs. Leonard Knight Elmhirst, an heiress to the U. S. Whitney fortune who, with her British husband, is striving to build up an idyllic artistic community at Dartington Hall in Devonshire...
Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fund, the Elmhirst Fund and the Alice Morgenthau Ehrich Memorial Fund have provided some $38,000 a year to improve the quality of the answers...