Word: leone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nutcracker Suite. The fact that the Suite was the first work that the Company performed in its entirety may have added to the audience's enjoyment, but in any event, the Pas de Deux and the dancers' individual variations were the high points of the evening. Yvette Chauvire and Leon Danielian also did a fine job as the Swan Queen and the Prince in Swan Lake, but for anyone who has seen the Sadler's Wells full-length production, the Ballet Russe's version is always a frustrating experience...
Conservatives found more things to their liking than in recent shows, thanks to some of the invitations extended by the chairman of this year's painting jury, popular Leon Kroll. The moderns predominated in both painting and sculpture, but in awarding the top prizes the judges ignored the more hectic advance guard...
...Leon was a droll and imaginative fellow, the bored guards agreed. The French police had first become acquainted with Léon's imagination six years before, after they had found the nude body of a White Russian countess lying in the Paris-Brussels road. The countess, who had been strangled with a nylon stocking, was known to have left Brussels with a young French medical officer named Count Vernier de Miraumont. The police finally found the man practicing gynecology in occupied Germany. They soon learned that he was neither a count, a doctor, an officer nor a Frenchman...
...Died. Leon Rothier, 76, French-born, grand-mannered basso at the Metropolitan Opera (1910-39), who sang a record-breaking 1,687 performances in 75 roles, was best known for his Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. After retiring at 68, he gave voice lessons, ran a radio program, brought the house down at a soth anniversary concert in 1949, admitted: "My voice is still very good, you know, but it can't compare with the golden voice I once...
Juniors--Paul Joseph Crowley, Medford, Mass.; Richard Thomas John Duback, Cleveland, Ohio; John Halan Ederer, Minneapolis Minn.; Arthur Eugene French, Jr., Short Hills, N.J.; Arnold Horween, Jr., Chicago, III; Albert Leon Weber, Minneapolis, Minn...