Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...split. What the talk simmered down to was this: Dancers Shawn and Robinson will both teach at a new Three Star Summer School for dancing teachers, which begins June 15 and lasts four weeks. The third star will be Florence Rogge, ballet mistress at Roxy's cinemansion. Leon Leonidov, production director at Roxy's, will give a course in rapid preparation of elaborate stage spectacles, admit his teacher-pupils to Roxy's dress rehearsals...
Died. Mme Jean Leon Jaures, relict of Jean Jaures, French Socialist Deputy who was assassinated in Paris in 1914; in Paris...
...selection for January "JOHN LEON...
...mother leaves home and sets up a separate establishment with her son. Then the family is reunited by the arbitration of a friendly doctor. There are sentimental stretches in Father's Son, but it is effective most of the time, paced exactly right by Director William Beaudine. Young Leon Janney gives a fine performance as the boy. Typical shot: Janney riding past his father's office in the junk-wagon of his crony, a Negro named Vestibule...
...Leon! Trotzky's history of the Russian Revolution . . . was to have been published April i and obviously he would not have quit work on it unless he was thoroughly incapacitated," said Mr. Trotzky's representative in Berlin. Few days later, despatches from Istanbul told that sick Leon Trotzky & wife were awakened 'by fire in their home on Prinkipo Island, near Istanbul, and narrowly escaped in their nightclothes. The home burned to the ground, with it all Trotzky's books and papers (including copies of. all the official documents which passed through his hands...