Word: peake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addicts who call themselves balletomanes have organized a club. Books on the ballet appear with increasing frequency, give new glamor to the names of great oldtime dancers. This week British Critic Arnold L. Haskell tells the life story of Diaghilev, the man who brought Russian ballet to its highest peak.* Author Haskell's volume is in part an answer to the best-seller by Romola Nijinsky who insinuated repeatedly that Diaghilev was the cause of her husband's brain-collapse. Author Haskell admits Diaghilev's abnormalities but he maintains that Nijinsky was never well-balanced, that there...
...companies, their health and prosperity. In the last year, and in the U. S. alone, they got 75,500 new customers for electricity, 17,900 new customers for gas. For the week ending Sept. 26, 1935, an electric output of 215,000,000 kilowatt hours marked an all-time peak for the system. Domestic gross...
...artists with established reputation: they measure the canvases and divide the area into the resulting number of numéros (a numero being a space about five inches square). Pablo Picasso, highest priced of any French painter, gets about 7,000 francs per numero for his canvases. From that peak prices drop sharply. In Manhattan last week the Museum of Modern Art gave its first one-man show of the season to an artist rated by most dealers the third or fourth highest priced in France: Fernand Léger. His numéros are worth 1,000 francs apiece, and most...
Into New York Supreme Court stepped Theatrical Producer Earl Carroll to testify for onetime Showgirl Eileen Wenzel, suing the grandson of Brewer George Ehret, for damages to her beauty in an automobile smash. Said Sexpert Carroll: "She had lustrous hair of fine texture, a forehead like a snow peak and eyes that made men swoon." Said the Justice: "Strike that out. Be more specific." Said Witness Carroll: "Her eyes were bright, her teeth and mouth regular, as was her chest, her throat lovely and her lips inviting." Taking a final look at Miss Wenzel's scarred, pitted face...
...need for hoarded moisture, the wax crop varies widely from year to year. This year the rains came early, stayed late. Result is a delayed crop, a rise in price per Ib.-now 38?, almost four times that of the 1932 bottom, but far short of an 80? peak price in 1918. Few U. S. waxmen agree with Johnson's President Johnson that there is a serious shortage...