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...Louis Reau, author of sections of Michel's "Histoire de L'Art" will deliver an illustrated lecture on contemporary French Sculpture under the joint auspices of The Alliance Francaise and the Fogg Art Museum, at The Museum on Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock. M. Reau has had a wide experience in the field of sculpture and related arts and besides being at one time professor of sculpture at the Ecole du Louvre, was a former editor of the Gazette des Beaux Arts. The public is cordially invited to attend his talk in the lecture room of the Fogg Museum...
...Imperial Ballet School at 8. In the Imperial Ballet, and in the triumphally trouping Sergei Diaghilev Ballet Russe-with its décors by Bakst, Picasso, Derain; its music by Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky; its surging choreography-Dancer Semenoff had taken part, close friend and assistant of Director Michel Fokine. When the Revolution changed things, Semenoff escaped through Poland, settled like many other emigrés in Paris. He went to the U. S. as ballet master with Nikita Balieff's Chauve-Souris in 1923, opened a dance studio in Cleveland seven years ago. Thereafter...
...Manhattan last week Michel Fokine received a ten-page letter, in pencil and ink, much of it undecipherable. It came from Niagara Falls-a place taken for granted by many an American but vastly impressive to Europeans. Translated from Russian by Dancer Fokine, part of it read...
Behind scenes at the Paris Opera Comiqne Conductor Michel Steiman broke his baton in two, announced that he would direct no more operas in which Basso Feodor Chaliapin was performing. During intermission Chaliapin had undertaken to tell Conductor Steiman that he knew nothing about directing opera. Back on the stage, he berated a fellow-singer in such strong Russian that several of his countrymen left the theatre...
...Manhattan art dealers know a little old gentleman with baggy trousers, a beard and a beady eye who is the city's most persistent exhibition visitor. All of them know that he is Louis Michel Eilshemius M. A., by his own admission painter, poet, musician, inventor, marksman, and "Ex Fancy Amateur Dancer." He loves to buttonhole strangers in hallways and describe his own superior accomplishments. He was once wealthy. He is still listed in the Social Register, lives in a brownstone house on East 57th Street and has spent a fortune on strange pamphlets and books to prove that...