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...effects have been rudely let down by their failure to imagine accurately all the physical circumstances which in a world of fact would form the background for their action. He chronicles the adventures of Miss Hope Davis, teacher of kindergarten in Low Plains, Kansas, returning from Europe on the "Ile-de-France," a ship which, from all accounts, is manned in an alert and seamanly fashion. Yet Miss Davis, falling in love with a young man who, since he is travelling with his family, does not have a private cabin, flees with him on a rough night...
Last week the Ballet made its last stop in Manhattan where the dancers gave five performances and sailed home on the Ile de France. The tour had grossed $1,000,000. Enthusiasm had run high. But Company Manager David Libidins was vastly relieved when he saw the gangplanks lifted. It had not been easy to mind 52 dancers, seven mothers, two fathers, 21 orchestramen, a marmoset, four turtles, a rabbit, a dog. To accommodate the troupe there had been six Pullmans, four baggage cars and a diner, besides the two-room auto-trailer which Leonide Massine, maitre de ballet, used...
...arrived on the Ile de France with a manager, a pianist, a violinist, three maids, 23 trunks, 50 pieces of hand luggage, a 12th Century Buddha and a $6,000-per-week contract. Awaiting her were a Sherry-Netherland penthouse, a show called Continental Varieties, a brand new night club on the 65th floor of the R. C. A. building, Rockefeller Center. Producers Arch Selwyn and Harold B. Franklin congratulated themselves when, a week before the Varieties opened, every $8.80 seat in the house had been sold. Rockefeller Center was proud of its Rainbow Room, with its high glass walls...
...long that was to be. After a few weeks' temporary detention in a garage at Périgueux. Kuncz and his comrades were sent to Noirmoutier, an island off the west coast, imprisoned in a medieval monastery there. In the summer of 1916 they were transferred to the neighboring Ile d'Yeu, kept there until April 1919. Ex-Prisoner Kuncz has no stories of atrocities to tell, recalls no tortures but cold, filth, monotony, celibacy, imprisonment. The cumulative strength of his story lies in its quiet matter-of-factness. which magnifies no pettiness, shows through a clear lens a dreadfully long...
They were all glad to leave Noirmoutier but they found Ile d'Yeu worse: their quarters were underground, insanitary, overcrowded, their bodies weaker, their spirits lower. Homosexuality grew to such an extent that one of the most outstanding perverts, who played the feminine lead in their amateur shows, was treated respectfully as a real woman, ''achieved the creation of a sort of salon." When one day the prisoners saw the U. S. fleet steaming past their island, they knew the War was lost. But they still had many weary months to wait. When Ex-Prisoner Kuncz finally got back...