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...shows the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the declarations of war. The eight chapters that follow are packed with sequences so exciting in themselves and so lightly related to each other that it is almost impossible to pick out individually memorable shots. Among the best are: General Galliéni's army hurrying out of Paris to the First Battle of the Marne in Renault taxis; the Austrian flagship St. Stephan sinking in a flat Adriatic dotted with drowning bodies; the rough pencil line of a French army drawn across the snow-covered Vosges Mountains; a U. S. division crossing...
Though Belmonte was beginning to be acclaimed in 1912, a bullfight in Valencia that year paid him only 80 pesetas; ni 1927 an afternoon in the same place netted him 35,000. Credited with revolutionizing the art of bullfighting, Belmonte made it more dangerous. He worked closer to the bull than his predecessors, and he went to the bull wherever it happened to be (previously certain parts of the arena had been considered impossibly dangerous for the matador). While he fought with what bullfight fans speak of as "emotion," he aroused even more emotion in the gasping spectators. ". . . He avails...
...rare and beautiful woman was Madame la Comtesse Virginie Oldoïni Verasis-Castiglione, famed courtesan of the Second Empire who divided her best years between Piedmont's King Victor Emmanuel and France's Napoleon III. The Countess's costumes, her jewels and their donors provided half the talk at the Court in Paris. Artists fought to paint her. Sculptors modeled her hands, her fingers, her shapely legs, even her ears...
...Nijinsky was no longer there. His brain had cracked and he was in a Swiss asylum. But there was handsome Leonide Massine who, if not so great a dancer, was a better maltre de ballet, a more brilliant choreographer. And there was Leon Woizikovsky who had done many of Ni- jinsky's roles (Harlequin, Petrouchka, the faun in L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune). Woizikovsky went off with Anna Pavlova, stayed with her until she died (TIME, Feb. 2, 1931). Then he returned to Monte Carlo and the Diaghilev tradition which has no patience with dancers...
...were only President Eamon de Valera opening the session with these words in Gaelic: . . ."-from TIME, Oct. 10. B'fhéidir go mba chliste dhuit an méid seo thuas a scriobhadh agus b'fhéidir narbh é. Pé scéal é ni fhuil ann acht tuairim TIME agus ar ndóigh ni thigeann TIME teanga uasal na hEireann...