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Voters amused themselves in Tokyo last week by such whimsies as voting for Chinese General Ma Chan-shan, for Japan's recently assassinated "Peace Man," Junnosuke Inoye, and for late, great Japanese such as Prince Ito ("the Bismarck of Japan"). One jokester voted "Give us rice!" But the Government of the Old Fox felt so strong that its censor passed these little jokes. The Old Fox could say: "A vote for the Seiyukai hastens the return of prosperity," while the opposition could only mutter innocuously: "One cannot feed on a fictitious boom...
...Orchestra. Later to Hollywood will go the great Italians Bernardino Molinari and Pietro Cimini; and Enrique Fernández Arbós of Madrid. Soloists include: Margaret Matzenauer, Elsa Alsen, Richard Crooks, Kathleen Parlow, Percy Grainger, Alfred Wallenstein. Ballet-arrangers: Mme Albertina Rasch and famed Japanese dance-master Michio Ito...
Famed male dancers are the Russians Mikhail Mordkin and Adolph Bolm, the American Ted Shawn, the Japanese Michio Ito and the German Harald Kreutzberg. Kreutzberg, who, according to many, leads them all today, is 24. He was once a designer for a small fashion magazine, then a dance pupil of the modernist Mary Wigman, then head of the Hanover Opera ballet. He came first to the U. S. last year with Max Reinhardt's players and last fortnight he came again, with Danseuse Yvonne Georgi, for a series of performances under the management of that doughty oldtime stage-lady...
...full of the woes of "a pious and sinful people." Full of fear of Jehovah, despair of stricken souls, anguished groping for light, the music was illustrated upon the vast stage by figures in tan and black flowing robes. Men of the priestly order (among them Dancer Michio Ito), mourning women bearing lighted candles, suppliants in prayer shawls, a pilgrim, the Ba'al Tokea, moved against the austere background of the enormous Wailing Wall of Jerusalem, achieved the spirit of Isaiah crying...
...American Opera Company will give "Pagliacci" at the Hollis Street Theatre this evening. The presentation will be featured by the appearance of Michio Ito, the famous Japanese dancer...