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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...
...lead pencil through each nostril to the top side of the soft palate. Each tube contains a partition which allows a steady flow of hot water. Sinus pains speedily cease as the water circulates. With another kind of Elliott rubber bag, Drs. John Henry Morrissey and Leo L. Michel of Manhattan, and a thousand others, are heat-treating abscesses of the teeth, inflammation of the gums, post-extraction pains and blockade of the parotid glands...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE-Marvin Lowenthal-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). An autobiography of the famed French essayist pieced together from his own essays, letters...
...Liberty (adapted from Michel Duran by Sidney Howard; Gilbert Miller, producer). The news about Ode to Liberty is that Ina Claire is now wearing her blonde hair piled in curls on top of her head like a charming Billiken. This hair dress and the Claire glamour manage to keep fluttering this airy nothing of a play. It concerns a Parisian lady who has left her overbearing banker husband for a small apartment of her own. There she unexpectedly finds herself playing unwilling hostess to a Communist fugitive (Walter Siezak, ingratiating young hero of Music in the Air). He is supposed...
Last week Nijinsky was in a Swiss insane asylum, Ida Rubinstein was aging in Paris, Léon Bakst was dead, but Michel Fokine was in Manhattan watching another Scheherazade which he had produced on ten days notice. Fokine's Scheherazade was the indoor sensation of Paris in 1910 and the outdoor sensation of New York in 1934. Jammed to capacity, Lewisohn Stadium seated 15,000, gave standing room to 2,000. Police reserves were called to handle a crowd of 10,000 who jostled outside the gates, were unable to get in. Quick to seize the advantages...