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The Hindu dancer, Shan-Kar, and his ballet are to give performances is Symphony Hall on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. Shan-Kar is a truly remarkable dancer, and his interpretations combine beauty with a strange Oriental fascination. The musical accompaniments are not the least interesting part of his performances...
In their cables this week, seasoned China correspondents had an adjective for the way in which the kidnapping of Premier & Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was ended, and that adjective was "preposterous." In any Occidental sense it was preposterous that the most powerful man in Eastern Asia should have been violently...
Son of a sewer gang foreman, James Petrillo, who likes to be called "The Mussolini of Music," was born in 1892 on Chicago's slummy West Side. He spent a precarious childhood selling newspapers, running elevators up & down Loop buildings, driving a horse & cart, peddling crackerjack and peanuts on...
Coriolanus: " . . .The fable is of oriental origin. It made its way somehow into Roman history of the legendary period and is attached to Menenius by Livy and Plutarch. Camden tells it in his "Remaines" (1605). Of course Shakespeare could read Livy."
For universal appeal, the editors craftily included eight Charming Chinese children at the country's only Chinese parochial school, in San Francisco's Oriental quarter. To please ladies, LIFE'S cinema hero-of- the-week was Hollywood's "beautiful" Robert Taylor, who plays opposite Greta Garbo...