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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Artists were glad: Nicholas Roerich has shown them a way of becoming successful. Returned to St. Petersburg from Paris he wanted to found a school. He hobnobbed with intellectuals; joined societies, shouted out his art theories, got an audience. He became first president of the first Russian art review Mir Iskusstva (Artistic World), which Serge Diaghilev edited. He designed the scenery for Alexander Borodin's Prince Igor, for Stanislavsky's production of Peer Gynt, for Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps. For this last one he also wrote the libretto. Then came the Russian revolutions...
...most good. One was Vincent Richards, onetime junior singles champion, onetime Davis Cup defender, whose attempt to justify his turning professional brought forth lame excuses, and turned away many who otherwise might have given him their support. The other was William Tatem Tilden II, who last week was found guilty of breaking the player-writer rule of the U. S. L. T. A. and punished by indefinite banishment from amateur tennis...
Europe thereby gained a unique distinction. There was little else that Jay Gould could not buy. On occasion, he found it advisable and practicable to buy railroads, judges, newspapers, city governments, friends, banks. Once, when his mind conceived the extraordinary stroke of cornering Gold, he attempted, and very nearly accomplished, the purchase of the U. S. government...
With Beau Geste, Christopher Wren roused such wholesale devotion to the gallant Brothers Geste of the French Foreign Legion that he has found it necessary to pronounce two post mortems-Beau Sabreur, and now Beau Ideal. No Conan Doyle, facile at reviving favorite characters, he is nevertheless faithful in concocting new thrills, new astounding coincidences, new bad puns, and pinning them to the surviving Geste-two others having already died elaborate deaths...
...Harry Deeler, a horse-thief and released convict, was crazy. Afraid that he would be taken away to an asylum, she coaxed him into a dark room at the back of her shanty where she chained him to a post. That was eleven years ago. Last week policemen found Harry Deeler crouching in the dark room; they wrapped him in a blanket and took him away to an asylum...