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Spanish dance draws warmth and vitality from a rich cultural background; the "Bolero" and "Seguidilla," in particular, are two which depict the temperment of Spanish myth and ceremony. Ballerina Nila Amparo is lithe and electrifying in "Bolero." On the humorous side, Teresa and Juanele Maya do the famous wife-husband fight in "Bulerias." The fiery "Zapateado", works up to such a dramatic ending that the crowd demands to see it all again...
Iowa-born Nila Cram Cook, "Blue Serpent Goddess" of the early '30s and onetime ascetic disciple of the late Mahatma Gandhi who gave up Hinduism for the high life of New Delhi, later moved on to Greece, Turkey and Iran, where she founded a national opera and ballet company, turned up in Jericho. Weighing over 200 pounds, and nursing a broken left leg, she was engaged in an arduous literary task: "I'm translating the Koran into English, annotating it marginally. I shall make the Koran comprehensible to every intelligent person who can read English...
Then, in 1941, Mrs. Guerrero learned that she had leprosy. She began taking treatment. But when the Japs invaded the Philippines, the leprosariums were abandoned. She returned to Manila and joined the underground. With other young Ma nila matrons, she worked to help the internees and U.S. prisoners of war, brought them food, clothes, medicine, messages...
...Nila Magidoff, authority on Soviet Education, will address the Harvard Radcliffe Council of Russian War Relief tomorrow night in the Lowell House Junior Common Room from 8 to 9:30 o'clock. The subject of her talk will be "The Russian University in Wartime...
...Russian Universities in Wartime" will be the subject of an address by Mrs. Nila Magidoff at a tea sponsored by the members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Council of Russian War Relief on Thursday, from 3 until 9:30 o'clock. The meeting will take place in the Lowell House Junior Common Room...