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...plays (Mlle Modiste, Chin-Chin, Blossom Time, Sunny, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney). In 1914 he took over Manhattan's big Hippodrome where he installed skating rinks, swimming tanks, staged extravagant spectacles with skating, diving, aerial ballets. Headliners who first appeared on the Hippodrome stage included Annette Kellerman, Anna Pavlova, Gaby Deslys...
...most difficult technical feats, the way he leaped into the air, paused and descended more slowly than he had risen, do ten entrechats so casually that they never interfered with his dramatic impersonation.* When he graduated from the Imperial School, he was hurried into the Mariinsky Theatre where Anna Pavlova, who never ceased being jealous of him, was prima ballerina. Diaghilev, son of a wealthy Russian general and distillery owner, had made a name for himself by assembling Russian painters, exhibiting their work expensively in St. Petersburg and Paris. He took the Russian Opera and Chaliapin to Paris before...
...great a dancer, was a better maltre de ballet, a more brilliant choreographer. And there was Leon Woizikovsky who had done many of Ni- jinsky's roles (Harlequin, Petrouchka, the faun in L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune). Woizikovsky went off with Anna Pavlova, stayed with her until she died (TIME, Feb. 2, 1931). Then he returned to Monte Carlo and the Diaghilev tradition which has no patience with dancers who feature themselves at the expense of the general ensemble.* Woizikovsky is 28, old for a ballet dancer. Most of the present members of the Monte Carlo...
...This would be guaranteed by $200,000 of Chicago money, housed in the old, popular Auditorium Theatre of the late Civic Opera. Another possibility is a ten-week season of a company to be assembled from unemployed artists in Manhattan by Max Rabinoff. onetime manager of the late Anna Pavlova. Also, there may be begun next month at the Stadium a series of 20 Saturday night performances of popular staples at popular prices...
Performers of world prominence who have broadcast for B. B. C. include Basso Chaliapin, Pianist Paderewski, Amos 'n' Andy (who proved unpopular), Paul Robeson (popular), G. B. Shaw and the late, great Danseuse Pavlova. (Today B. B. C. eschews and frowns upon such "stunts" as broadcasting Mme Pavlova's dancing footsteps, popular though they proved in 1924, 1925 and 1927, accompanied by ballet music...