Word: marmoset
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cook and prepare their food. Among the things the animals will eat during one year are: 1,600 frogs, 50 pounds of dried flies, 220 pounds of ant eggs, 1,300 chameleons, besides such usual food as carrots, beef, bananas, apples, grain. Daintiest feeder is the pigmy marmoset, which, for meat, eats only the smallest young lizards...
...matter of the Russian Ballet (TIME, Music, April i) dark-skinned Toumanova does not own "Mickey" the marmoset, rather the fair Irina Baronova. . . . "Mickey" recently had a near escape from drowning when his exploratory yearnings led him to a toilet fixture into which he plunged, was rescued in the nick of time. "Mickey" was presented to Baronova by Arnold Haskell, author of Ballctomania...
...sailed home on the Ile de France. The tour had grossed $1,000,000. Enthusiasm had run high. But Company Manager David Libidins was vastly relieved when he saw the gangplanks lifted. It had not been easy to mind 52 dancers, seven mothers, two fathers, 21 orchestramen, a marmoset, four turtles, a rabbit, a dog. To accommodate the troupe there had been six Pullmans, four baggage cars and a diner, besides the two-room auto-trailer which Leonide Massine, maitre de ballet, used because he wanted his borshch and pirozhki prepared by his own Russian cook...
...road were Les Sylphides, Prince Igor and Petrouchka, all inherited from the old Diaghilev company. Most popular male dancers were handsome young David Lichine and the master Massine, who, at 38, is old to be dancing so fleetly. Most popular ballerinas were dark-skinned Tamara Toumanova, who owns the marmoset, and Irina Baronova who can act as well as spin. Both...
...headseas washed roaring against the S. S. Manhattan off the Grand Banks, one evening last week. Overhead howled an 85-mi. nor'wester. Only three passengers were hardy enough to be aboveboard. One was Queena Mario, small, vivacious soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Another was her pet marmoset, Vibrato. The third was a Mrs. Florence Garson of Staten Island...