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Chief of the "Johnists" in Tiomne was Ivan Skripnik, onetime policeman. Igor Serednitzky, a slow-witted peasant, was his chief disciple. So black did life seem to "Johnists" Skripnik and Serednitzky and their followers last week that it wa's decided to send a messenger to heaven. Looking about him, Ivan Skripnik chose young Gregory Romashevsky to act as this messenger. Romashevsky blanched but accepted, prepared to die. He lay down on the table in the mean wooden house that serves the Johnists for a church. By his head was laid an old butcher knife, carefully sharpened...
...punch of most modern music is in the tickets. Exception: Igor Fedorovitch Stravinsky. He is always "good box-office." Manhattan's League of Composers, with Stravinsky's half-hour ballet, Les Noces, on the program (first U. S. production), preceded only by a 17th Century academic tidbit, last week drew a $25,000 audience to the Metropolitan Opera House, the smartest audience since the opening of the opera season last autumn...
Forty-seven years ago in Oranienbaum, near St. Petersburg, little Igor Stravinsky was born, son of an opera singer. He was a child of terrifying musical precocity and an early tendency towards hair-splitting conversation. The law first attracted him and he attended the University. Then, aged 20. he met a wise old man, Rimsky-Korsakov, one of the great five who had founded the Russian National School of Music. Rimsky, steeped in the folklore of his country, taught the youth to put his ear to the ground, to listen to the earth sounds of Muscovy...
...seats in its cabin for 20, plus a lounge, a kitchen and a washroom. With the 20 it can go 800 miles in seven hours. Altogether it makes a new competitor for the other great transport planes-Stout, Fokker. Boeing, Loening, Curtiss. Keystone and the new one Igor Sikorsky is designing...
...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. His St. Petersburg became Petrograd, Leningrad. He hustled to New York (1920). In Manhattan he founded the Master Institute...