Word: emigration
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Louis William Stern, 67, German emigré, onetime (1916-33) director of the Psychological Institute at Hamburg University, since 1934 professor of psychology at Duke University; of a heart attack; in Durham. N. C. One of the world's leading psychologists, Dr. Stern was credited with having originated the idea of I. Q. (intelligence quotient) tests...
...foreign-language race groups." Poles, everywhere happy & contented, "dream at night of planting wheat and cabbages," detest Communism and Fascism as they do their hereditary enemies Russia and Germany. Among the White Russians of Westbury, Long Island, Seabrook was surprised to discover that not all Russian emigrés are married to U. S. heiresses...
...tour. has four outstanding dancers : handsome David Lichine, spectacular for his leaps, his sensuous grace; pretty feathery Tatiana Riabouchinska, whom Colonel de Basil has insured against marriage; dark dynamic Tamara Tamounova and Irina Baronova. The greatest of these, says Critic Haskell, is Baronova, 15, ashy, pale-haired Russian emigrée who grew up in the Balkans, studied in Paris with the Imperial ballerina, Olga Preobrajenska. Baronova's technic is amazing. She can do 32 spins (fouettés) without stopping. But more, her dancing has the same subtle, unearthly quality which marked the early playing of Violinist Yehudi...
There was free champagne. Many jealous Russian emigrés in Paris prudently forgot their high talk of '"boycotting" the ceremony and attended the wedding last week of Barbara Woolworth Hutton to "Prince" Alexis Mdivani in the Russian Church in Paris. The church was jammed. Three thousand people stood on the sidewalk, lost their tempers, punched each other's faces, nearly ruined the bride's dress (Patou) and had a grand time. There are no seats in a Russian church. For over half an hour, while four bearded brocaded priests chanted at them, led them round & round...
...Ekaterinburg while Lettish soldiers shot him down. Those of his followers and courtiers who could, fled the country, moving in two general directions, one through Constantinople toward Paris and the U. S., the other all the way across Siberia to Harbin and Shanghai. By education and temperament no emigr#233;s in history were worse equipped for facing life than the White Russians. In the East, Russian girls became dancing partners and gentlemen's companions. In the West, Russian men became taxi drivers, engineers, bankers. They also became gigolos and husbands...