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Marshalled by a retired Cossack colonel, 64 young Russian dancers invaded Manhattan last winter, set up shop with a 50-piece orchestra, crates of colorful scenery, 6,000 costumes, and forthwith proceeded to prove that the ballet still exists as a great & glamorous art (TIME, Jan. 1). Nearly 25,000...
Whether Authoress Yurlova's story is embroidered, it pales into romantic unreality beside the photographs that illustrate it. Among its gory snapshots of corpses cluttering the snow, frozen into the many awkward postures of Death, one stands out as the most ghastly yet published in any war book. It...
"Beside the carnage of Sholapur the British terrorism of the Black and Tans in Ireland pales into a mist. . . . Before they were done at Sholapur the British police committed wholesale murder."
Scandal), made five-hour speeches in Parliament, bet foolishly on innumerable horses, was buried with high ritual in Westminster Abbey. He was a breath-taking swell; far sweller than the lacy-sleeved heroes of his dramas. Even Captain Jack Absolute of The Rivals pales by comparison with his dashing creator...
Since even the Dictatorship of Signor Benito Mussolini pales beside such preventions, the one title fit for His Majesty Alexander Karageorgevitch,* last week seemed to be "Alexander the Absolute."