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...leaped into the air, paused and descended more slowly than he had risen, do ten entrechats so casually that they never interfered with his dramatic impersonation.* When he graduated from the Imperial School, he was hurried into the Mariinsky Theatre where Anna Pavlova, who never ceased being jealous of him, was prima ballerina. Diaghilev, son of a wealthy Russian general and distillery owner, had made a name for himself by assembling Russian painters, exhibiting their work expensively in St. Petersburg and Paris. He took the Russian Opera and Chaliapin to Paris before he took the Ballet. But the dancers established...
...genius for discovering new talent. Once, she says, a doctor warned Nijinsky that he had a curious glandular arrangement but she slides over this point in her effort to set up Diaghilev as the cause of Nijinsky's madness. Diaghilev was so jealous that he refused to let the dancer have any friends outside his own inner circle. Wlu'le others were paid prodigious salaries, Nijinsky was given only enough to take care of his mother in St. Petersburg. When the Ballet started for Rio de Janeiro, Diaghilev's fear of the sea kept him in Europe...
...troopers. At the stops the passengers are carefully scrutinized by policemen searching for Porter who had ingeniously disguised himself by removing his prison clothes on top of the bus and substituting them for the suit of one of the passengers. On we go further west, and it is jealous Legs who first discovers that his rival is the convict. On we go still further west and the smell of the Rockies becomes more predominant. With a wow of an ending, numerous snow bound school children are rescued by the fugitive from justice, pretty Letty gets rid of her gangster admirer...
Journal of a Crime (Warner). A jealous wife (Ruth Chatterton) shoots her husband's mistress. Thereafter, the husband (Adolphe Menjou) fixes her with a bilious eye, waiting for her to confess. When this happens, she goes mad and he feels sorry. When last seen the couple are on a terrace above the Mediterranean, he a misanthrope and she a crackpot, brooding harmlessly in deckchairs...
...present, necromancy has scored over the public. The American Press, however jealous of constitutional encroachments on its liberty, stands strangely apathetic to the Common Weal when threatened with loss of fat advertising contracts. Over three months have elapsed without action on the Bill, and daily it sinks further into the background as other issues arise to command the attention of the administration. In another three months of carefully regulated silence the Tugwell-Copeland Bill, like so many other good but "inopportune" measures, will die amidst the rejoicing of the quacks and their advertising confreres...