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...prima ballerinas, apparently a haughty Italian, a frizzy-headed Frenchwoman, an intense Russian, wobbled in their pirouettes, fought for the spotlight, mugged and ogled. It was like an off night, and a dreadful one, in the Russian ballet. The audience roared. It was meant to. The ballet was Gala Performance (choreography by Antony Tudor), a new act presented by the young, immensely talented Ballet Theatre...
Last Sunday at Agua Caliente, the West Coast track where young Dew had won many a race, the management had arranged to present the champion with a gold watch, as a gala climax to the day's program. From the palatial stands the shrill yelling of 20,000 fans echoed through the mauve mountains, as field after field of selling platers pounded into the stretch...
Last week Mrs. Roosevelt deftly slipped the quartet into the program* of the Inaugural Gala, an omnium-gatherum of music and anti-Fascist vaudeville last Sunday night in Washington's Constitution Hall. That hall, owned by the D. A. R., two years ago was forbidden to Negro Contralto Marian Anderson. Last week the D. A. R. moodily approved the Golden Gate Quartet...
...speech by President Conant, a gala dance, and the traditional Christmas reading by Charles T. Copeland, professor of English, emeritus, are some of the highlights on the schedule of Freshman events for the forthcoming month, it was announced today by the Freshman Union Committee at its third meeting yesterday...
Theatre Life had a gala anniversary on its 25th birthday in 1935. From Szöke Szakal (translation: blond beard), a Hungarian actor, Publisher Ince got a letter of congratulation, a check for $125 to cover a subscription for the next 25 years. Three years later, Theatre Life was dead. This week, to Szöke Szakal, now in Hollywood, Publisher Ince announced that he was back in business, sent a 22-year subscription to Stage...