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...concrete and steel, with nine miles of brine pipes and seats for 3,000. The new rink, where curling, figure skating and hockey will be played next month, was one of many improvements made at Lake Placid since the Olympic Winter Games, held at Chamonix in 1924, at St. Moritz in 1928, were awarded to the U. S. Budget for this winter's games was over $1,000,000 of which $200,000 came from Lake Placid, $500,000 from the State of New York. Improvements on the bob-sled run cost $225,000. Designer Stanislaus Zentzytski, imported from Berlin...
...found Nijinsky and his troupe in Budapest where he had just married the daughter of Emilia Markus, famed Hungarian actress. He was promptly interned, later allowed to leave the country for a dance tour of South America. On his return he went to live in St. Moritz, and there, because he could not dance, he began to draw: dance movements, sketches of his daughter, his servants.* It was one of the servants who had been with Nietzsche when that philosopher went mad, who first realized that Vaslav Nijinsky was losing his mind. Nijinsky never became violent, though U. S. newspapers...
...Showman Lee Shubert, in Manhattan, of a glandular ailment; Banker Paul Moritz Warburg, in Manhattan, of a "breakdown of the eye nerves"; Jane Addams, famed social worker, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, recovering rapidly from an operation for ovarian cyst; Cinemactress Marjorie White, in Philadelphia, of severe injuries suffered in an auto crash; Cinemactress Pola Negri, in Santa Monica, Calif., following a critical operation for an intestinal obstruction; Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie of Nevada, of a broken collarbone suffered during his morning canter, when his mount stumbled and fell on him; Biographer Giles Lytton Strachey, of paratyphoid fever; Winston Leonard...
...South Carolina home. The children with the Admiral were: three girls, Nina, 15, Ludmila, 20, Tonia, 13; and two boys, Feodor, 14, Nikolai, 22. All were quickly picked up except Nina who was found swimming after a half hour's search. Two other adopted daughters are Mrs. William Moritz of New York and Mrs. Alexander Lastchencoff of Detroit. Admiral McCully, a bachelor of independent income, adopted the seven when he was special agent for the Department of State in the south of Russia. He was aided by Olga Alexandra Krundisheva, a refugee whom he subsequently (1927) married, brought...
...maestro himself, he cabled his U. S. secretary: "I am tranquil." And in sunny, quiet St. Moritz last week he was unmolested. Visitors were told he would see no one. Said a neighbor: ''Something goes on until two or three o'clock in the morning. Lights are turned on in the villa. A piano answers softly to the master's hands. Then the music stops and the lights go out. These musicians have their own way of resting...