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Other Great Lakes Exposition attractions are Winterland, a big skating rink with a troupe of performers headed by Maribel Yerxa Vinson; performances of The Drunkard, the hiss-the-villain melodrama which had a long run in Manhattan in 1934; Tony Sarg's marionettes. The management declared flatly that this year there would be no "peep shows" or "gyp joints." Last week the first seven days' attendance stood...
...very Irish owner (Sara Allgood of The Plough and the Stars) is unable to pay his long-overdue license fee. This innocent situation causes the town provost's political career to be ruined, for his decision to execute un licensed Patsy arouses the dog-loving electorate, not to hiss, but to bark him out of office. There are also two divorce cases and a love affair attributable to Patsy before the final curtain falls...
...compose for the Russian Ballet. In the next few years Stravinsky's name sped across Europe as the author of the blazing, polyphonic Firebird and the riotous Petrouchka. The harsh, neolithic percussions of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps were less welcome, made first-nighters in Paris hiss and jeer. Stravinsky unconcernedly went his way. Suddenly he announced he was through with picture-music and would "return to Bach." His style grew clearer, if more austere, showed in every bar an uncanny knowledge of each instrument's value. Emotional people, who like music to conjure pictures for them...
...Madhavan. Young Madhavan has studied dancing in India since he was 12. This is his first trip to the U. S., his first season with Shankar who considers him a better dancer than himself. Critics, mindful of the subtlety of the older dancer, his hands which can all but hiss like snakes, disagree. But they praise Madhavan for his energy, his strong, fluid movements, the ease with which he holds himself in desperately hard positions...
...Little Hells" spell disaster to the natives of El Salvador, the pocket Republic on that neck of land joining North and South America. "Little Hells'' are geysers of boiling water that hiss and squirt in the bowels of the earth until something gives way. It was El Salvador's "Little Hells" that last week brought the town of San Vicente toppling down, killing 250, injuring...