Word: nikita
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Chauve-Souris. A "ver' goot audience" clattered generous hands, to see Nikita Balieff* in town again. Save a goatee in one scene and a dented derby in another he appeared in his usual evening clothes; and chattered between the acts. He spoke variously of Abraham Lincoln, Marie Antoinette, Otto Kahn (in the fifth row) ; his audience, his premiere danseuse, and his face. To all this the witnesses listened rapt; to his show they were only slightly less attentive...
...Nikita Balieff came Morris Gest-in Paris...
...Only a stupid man would take me to America," said Nikita Balieff. "I speak Russian, the only language nobody understands...
...Balieff is not a Russian at all. He was born in Erzerum, Armenia, of a merchant family which held up their hard worked hands in horror when young Nikita divulged a yearning for the stage. Nikita shrugged his not, in those days, so very hardworked shoulders, deserted the family, who promptly cast him off, and was presently heard knocking at the stage door of the great Art Theatre in Moscow...
...Nikita Balieff, master of the Chauve Souris, told friends in London of a recent call he made on Mr. Coolidge: "I kept awake all night preparing a little speech to tell Mr. Coolidge all about his noble country and his noble self. .... Mr. Coolidge seized my hand and said: 'How do you do?' Then he seized it again and said: 'Goodbye.' I was out of the White House in forty seconds. Fortunately his countrymen listened to me with more patience than...