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...When Nijinsky, Karsavina, Rubinstein danced in the peerless Diaghilev Ballet, it was more often than not to works created by Michel Fokine. Today Fokine runs a dancing school in Manhattan. His dancers, who bolstered a faltering season last summer at the Lewisohn Stadium, were again sent to its rescue this month. They performed old Fokine favorites, introduced some new ballets. By this week, when they were to wind up the engagement, the Fokine dancers had impressed critics as no more than mediocre. There was, however, one exception-22-year-old Paul Haakon (pronounced hawk-on). In Scheherazade...
...Manhattan, sturdy little Jose Iturbi. by now accepted as a first-class conductor as well as a brilliant pianist, mounted a podium in the floodlighted Lewisohn Stadium, led the Philharmonic-Symphony expertly through the Star-Spangled Banner, Wagner's rousing overture to Die Meistersinger, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, three dances from De Falla's Three-Cornered Hat and, with Violinist Albert Spalding, the Mendelssohn Concerto. As usual, aged Adolph Lewisohn, donor of the Stadium and a patron of the concerts, made a little speech. So did peppery, music-loving Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia. Hooted and booed by radicals...
When the Supreme Court chopped off the Blue Eagle's head, the copper industry came to a standstill. Nobody wanted to be the first to slash prices, especially since inventory-taking was less than two months off. Aged Philanthropist Adolph Lewisohn, president of Miami Copper Co., did his best to stave off a price panic fortnight ago by crying stoutly: "I have been associated with the copper industry for more than 50 years and only once prior to the Depression have I seen such a low price as 9?. . . . The copper industry is headed for higher prices, and legitimately...
...doctors' doctor, Dr. Libman now accepts only rare cases which other doctors refer to him. Some of his old patients, however, still climb the high stoop of his brownstone house in Manhattan's East 64th Street. Up that stoop, as patient or friend, have gone Adolph Lewisohn, Samuel Untermyer, Albert Einstein, Alexis Carrel, Sarah Bernhardt...
Married. Salvador Franco Urias, attorney; and Jesus Navarro; as proxies for Ludwig Lewisohn, author (Up Stream, Mid-Channel') and Thelma Bowman Spear, singer; in Juarez, Mexico, where in absentia Novelist Lewisohn obtained a divorce from his first wife, Mrs. Mary Arnold Crocker Childs Lewisohn, Author "Bosworth Crocker." In Poland eleven years ago Novelist Lewisohn obtained a rabbinical divorce, the validity of which has since been questioned. He married Miss Spear, begat a child. The Mexican divorce and proxy marriage were an attempt to legalize his position. Mrs. Lewisohn I, who in 1924 obtained a separation providing $55 a week...