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...Sergei Diaghilev Ballet Russe-with its décors by Bakst, Picasso, Derain; its music by Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky; its surging choreography-Dancer Semenoff had taken part, close friend and assistant of Director Michel Fokine. When the Revolution changed things, Semenoff escaped through Poland, settled like many other emigrés in Paris. He went to the U. S. as ballet master with Nikita Balieff's Chauve-Souris in 1923, opened a dance studio in Cleveland seven years ago. Thereafter he saw few of his oldtime friends. Unmarried, he lived alone...
...about 60,000 persons live on an island. The island is called Man, the people Manxmen, and their cats, which are without tails, Manx Cats. The history of the Isle of Man is obscure and old. At present it is a British crown dominion, and many of its inhabitants emigrate to the U. S. or elsewhere. Of these emigrés there was a gathering last week in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland Manxmen to the number of 600 attended, World Manxmen to the number of 400, and Manxmen direct from Man to the number of 26. At the head of these...
Thus almost lost to fame is the most exciting and excitable figure that ever trod the soil of North America. Frémont was, characteristically enough, born unconventionally in 1813. His mother was the wife of gouty Major John Pryor, but his father was a dashing French emigré (Charles Frémon) who ran off with his mother. Reared in the best Charleston, S. C., society, Frémont was a quick Latin and Greek scholar. People thought he might make a teacher or a preacher, until Joel R. Poinsett (manifest destiny man, Secretary of War, giver...
...cause seems lost. He is Peter Nicholaievich, Baron Wrangel, the last hope of the "White" Tsarist Russian emigrés. In 1920 the victories of his "White Knights" over portions of the "Red Army" gave hope that the Bolshevist tide might be dammed. Then France and Britain withdrew their support from General Wrangel, he was driven even from Sevastopol, fled. Until last week his refuge was Belgrade, Jugoslavia...
Appeal. Since this quite extraordinary man still lives, residing quietly at the Chateau de Choigny near Paris, it was not surprising that the Russian Congress of Emigrés which met at Paris last week should have chosen him as their expatriated Tsar...