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Petrushka, a ballet about a silly, tragic rag doll with a soul, by Igor Stravinsky, was revived last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. There was only one Russian in the cast. He, Adolph Bolm, took the part of the sawdust Caliban, capered foolishly, pathetically, to his special tune- a fanfare for two trumpets a minor second apart. Rosina Galli was the limber ballerina. At the end of the performance, Mr. Stravinsky was discovered to be present, hailed before the curtain, presented with an overstuffed floral wreath, according to Metropolitan tradition...
Puppets. Frances Lightner has concocted a ragged play about rag dolls, human and otherwise. Into a rather unusual setting of a marionette theater on Mulberry Street, Manhattan, the playwright plucks somewhat forcibly at a snatch of the Pagliacci motif...
...from the land of grease paint, mystery and hokum bursts George M. with a weekly humorous letter for the Sunday News. Think of it! The fellow who press-agented Betsy Ross's Grand Old Rag is going to toot a real Yankee Doodle letter for you every Sunday...
...fellow who press-agented Betsy Ross's Grand Old Rag...
...Twelfth Street Rag...