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...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...
...dear friend Fokine: I am ending my life by suicide because I cannot bear any longer the slander and persecution of the ballet. It may be that my jump into Niagara Falls will sufficiently disturb you and others to set back the self-inflated modernists. A greater charlatan article in Plain Dealer of Sept. 13, 1931, I have never seen. . . .* This will kill me. . . . The time will come when [Doris Humphrey's statements] will be recollected with bitter shame. . . . Now Ruth St. Denis is dreaming about a religious dance and does not see that the classical ballad dance...
Dancer Fokine telegraphed the Police in Cleveland and Niagara Falls: "FIND SEMENOFF. . . ." But Nikolai Semenoff had already spent a night at the Temperance House in Niagara Falls, walked out next morning, doffed hat, top coat and stick, laid them neatly on the shore. Helpless witnesses saw him plunge off Table Rock, go over the brink in his last and bravest pirouette...
Died. Nikolai Semenoff, 50, Russian ballet dancer; by jumping into Niagara Falls...
...Dominican nuns of Konstanz, Germany, sent Sister Gertrude Endres to the U. S. to paint Niagara Falls. For seven months she has been turning out oil paintings showing Niagara Falls from assorted angles. Last week in Manhattan's Central Park she lost 20 of them...