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Petrushka, curious, inimitable ballet-child of Igor Stravinsky, was given last week for the first time this season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Poor Petrushka, superbly done by Adolf Bolm, danced and danced, wriggled and writhed, beat his breast, accomplished nothing, became in the end just the pitiful ghost...
In sharp contrast to the poverty of the houses were the pitiful attempts to beautify them. Most of the rooms were very clean. Cretonnes, colored calendars and holy pictures abounded. Cheap ornaments were common. In one suite was found a canary bird; in others dogs, and pets of every description
In 1920 young Harriman made a master play. He created a contract with the Hamburg-American Line so that for 20 years his United American Line would represent the German company in the U. S. They would represent his company in Germany. German shipping had sunk to a pitiful low...
Loew's State--"The Torrent", by Blasco Ibanez: The State has been presenting some excellent pictures lately preceded by a pitiful attempt to ape the spectacular prologues at the Metropolitan.
They remember how Mary Adams was afflicted with malignant inferiority as a girl in provincial little Lebanon. Her father was head hawker in the public market, a loud man with a mean soul. Her mother was doting and desperately middle class. Mary was a pretty girl stricken with panic by...