Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Montreal, Leonide Massine's new ballet company began a summer road tour that gave every evidence of becoming a moneymaker. The audience of 10,000 packed Molson Stadium - at a nice profit, too - and vigorously applauded Massine's Ballet Russe Highlights...
...Eglevsky, Rosella Hightower, Yurek Lazowsky, Kathryn Lee, Anna Istomina -trained to perform in quick succession the twelve to 16 short ballets he will crowd into each program. In a pre-tour show at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week, the Highlights company danced against a black backdrop; in Montreal, where the audience surrounded the platform, the decor consisted of eight well-potted palms...
Yells Better. In Montreal, the four-day-old son of Mr. & Mrs. R. F. Yells was operated on for a throat obstruction...
...candidate who polled the greatest .number of civilian votes (23,800) was able, amiable Howard Charles Green, Vancouver Progressive Conservative. Second-biggest vote catcher (21,123) was a political newcomer, Roland Beaudry, 39, Montreal Liberal...
...court action in Ottawa involved Rothschild-owned shares of the Royal Dutch Co. (oil). Worth 1,534,000 Dutch florins, they had been deposited in a Montreal bank in 1939 for safekeeping. But when the Baron reached the U.S. and asked for his florins, he found they had been impounded by Canada's Custodian of Enemy Property. The Baron could have his money, said the custodian, only if he would pay a $21,844.16 handling charge. The Baron appealed. He claimed that he had never been an enemy of Canada, that therefore Canada had no right to take custody...