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...through the summers. Lights from the marquees flooded the surrounding sidewalks. Limousines drove up in lines to where flashlight photographers waited to see if the passengers were important enough to "shoot." In another line, earnest men and women drably dressed waited anxiously to get standing place behind the red plush rail inside, to see the faded gold curtains open on the beginning of another winter's opera...
...whom has been with the organization less than five years, some of whom have been with it 25, took their trouping humorously, although most of them had never trouped farther away from home than Belfast or London before. This year the tour is to be made strictly "on the plush." Towns to be visited after their four-week stay in Manhattan: Philadelphia, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago, Toronto, Kansas City, St. Louis, Boston. Some of the Irish Players, like Eileen Crowe and Udolphus Wright, keep 300 parts fresh in mind. Last week's repertoire included...
When wheat grains fell by accident in a kitchen garden, it was discovered that great crops would grow in Colorado soil. A degree of permanence began to invade Denver. Some Denverites began to sleep nights. Others carried Denver's early rough-&-toughness to a plush & gilt extreme in the night life of Larimer and Curtis Streets. A block north was Market Street, one of the U. S.'s worst red light districts. Organized gambling and prostitution were open and reputable until...
Girandoles and red plush, champagne and rich grey caviar, pretty Moscow women and gay music-it is a long way from all that to a lonely flat in Cleveland, Ohio. So it seemed to Nikolai Semenoff. Born in Russia some 50 years ago. he had entered the Imperial Ballet School at 8. In the Imperial Ballet, and in the triumphally trouping Sergei Diaghilev Ballet Russe-with its décors by Bakst, Picasso, Derain; its music by Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky; its surging choreography-Dancer Semenoff had taken part, close friend and assistant of Director Michel Fokine. When the Revolution...
...only five more to go) he missed a spread masse and then watched his opponent, Albert Corty, a Marseilles manufacturer of jute bags, nurse the gleaming balls across the lines for a run of 50 and the match.* When Van Belle and Poensgen played their match, in the red-plush and gilt-scroll lodgeroom of the Elks' Club, they were the only undefeated players left in the tournament. Van Belle was nervous. Sitting in a stiff armchair, he puckered up his lips, blinked gloomily at the ivory joint of his cue while Poensgen had the table. He was only...