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Famed male dancers are the Russians Mikhail Mordkin and Adolph Bolm, the American Ted Shawn, the Japanese Michio Ito and the German Harald Kreutzberg. Kreutzberg, who, according to many, leads them all today, is 24. He was once a designer for a small fashion magazine, then a dance pupil of the modernist Mary Wigman, then head of the Hanover Opera ballet. He came first to the U. S. last year with Max Reinhardt's players and last fortnight he came again, with Danseuse Yvonne Georgi, for a series of performances under the management of that doughty oldtime stage-lady...
Peter C. Cornell, the manager of the Majestic Theatre in Buffalo, is the father of Katharine Cornell. When Jessie Bonstelle, now the mentor of Detroit's Civic Theatre, arrived in Buffalo, Katharine Cornell became her pupil and like many another of Jessie Bonstelle's proteges, profited greatly by the tutelage. Later she toured under William A. Brady; later still she made her debut in London, returned to Manhattan for a series of successes of which the most notable was The Green Hat, and married Guthrie McClintic. Last year she was in The Letter; last week she received rave...
Faust at the Metropolitan Opera House. Pupil of Marcella Sembrich, onetime member of the San Carlo and Cincinnati Zoo opera companies, Soprano Besuner displayed a pleasant voice, an excellent technique. The audience liked her. Maria Jeritza sent flowers, good wishes...
...packed socket, into which a glass eye soon would be set. His extracted eye had had a tumor. His other eye was good. But Nordic Ferguson's other eye was bad. It bore a cataract, an opaque thickening of the cornea that prevented light images going through his pupil and striking upon his retina. So hopeless was his case that he had become an inmate of Manhattan's Home for the Blind. And he is only...
...ordained minister, Socialist Nominee Norman Thomas was once a pupil at the Union Theological Seminary of which Dr. Coffin is now president...