Word: nini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hair white in a single act. No Tannhäuser was its central protagonist, but mad King Ludwig of Bavaria (Wagner's patron), who reared and reeled in the costume of Lohengrin. Before him, like something sired by George White out of Krafft-Ebing, pranced a bleached Venus (Nini Theilade), a hoop-pantalooned Lola Montez (Ludwig's grandfather's mistress) with a belt of false teeth, Mr. and Mrs. Sacher Masoch in riding breeches, and enough assorted subconscious erotica to strain the limbo of an experienced psychopath. Meanwhile, at one side of the stage, a moribund, vine...
...such a contingency year and a half ago by rearranging Transamerica's stock so it could be switched quickly to an investment trust. It was on this realignment that SEC last week cracked down with 18 specific charges, from "creation of fictitious reserves" to paying Banker Gian nini some $700,000 instead of the $1 a year he reported. Flatly denying this salary accusation, Transamerica last week claimed that the other charges were "based entirely on a theory of accounting...
...with his wonted spirit. But of the Ballet's four familiar prima ballerinas-Tatiana Riabouchinska, Irina Baronova, Alexandra Danilova and Tamara Toumanova-the first two were missing. In their places were two newly acquired slim-limbed bids for U.S. favor: diminutive, British-born Alicia Markova (Alice Marks), and Nini Theilade (pronounced Tay-lah'-de), an exotic, Javanese-born tripper of mixed Danish, Polish, German and Hindu extraction...
Divorce Denied. By Judge Charles A. Walsh to Ferdinand Frazier Jelke, 52, Manhattan broker, and Eugenia ("Nini") Woodward Jelke, 27, Alabama socialite; after a sensationally disgusting trial in Newport, R. I. Grounds: that both were guilty of extreme cruelty. Jelke's allegation that his wife was guilty of infidelity because she kept secret trysts with a mysterious major at the notorious Birmingham flat of a "Madame" Ethel Hartman was denied. The statements of Mrs. Hartman, who had been paid $5,200 for expenses to testify for Mr. Jelke and then testified for Mrs. Jelke instead, were discredited...