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Like the late Theodore Thomas of Chicago and the late Leopold Damrosch of New York, Conductor Nikolai Sokoloff has been an orchestra-builder. It was he who, shrewd, tireless and ambitious, founded the Cleveland Orchestra 14 years ago with the help of Adella Prentiss Hughes, and who secured for it last year its fine new home, Severance Hall (TIME, Feb. 16, 1931). Last week Nikolai Sokoloff, summering in Westport, Conn., was looking forward to next winter's 15th orchestra season; but he could not look forward to being Cleveland's maestro after May 31, 1933. The Cleveland Orchestra...
Girandoles and red plush, champagne and rich grey caviar, pretty Moscow women and gay music-it is a long way from all that to a lonely flat in Cleveland, Ohio. So it seemed to Nikolai Semenoff. Born in Russia some 50 years ago. he had entered the Imperial Ballet School at 8. In the Imperial Ballet, and in the triumphally trouping Sergei Diaghilev Ballet Russe-with its décors by Bakst, Picasso, Derain; its music by Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky; its surging choreography-Dancer Semenoff had taken part, close friend and assistant of Director Michel Fokine. When the Revolution...
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...
...stump Russia's late, great Nikolai Lenin used the words "Socialism" and "Communism" as interchangeable synonyms. Josef Stalin has stated that what the Russian Communist Party is doing today is "Building Socialism...