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Bolero (Paramount). Set in the 1910s, this picture features Maurice Ravel's famed composition (written in 1928), calls a cabaret a night club, omits the maxixes and bunny-hugs of the period in favor of jazz steps and a fan dance by Sally Rand. A Belgian-born coal miner named Raoul (George Raft) becomes a dancer. As he rises in the world, he casts off partner after partner because they try to mix pleasure and business. He acquires an able partner in Helen (Carole Lombard), but loses her when he talks of going to war as a good publicity...
...Petersburg into Europe. He built up its reputation to top-notch not only because he had dancers like Karsavina and Nijinsky and a choreographer like Fokine but also because he had the imagination to commission artists like Bakst, Matisse and Picasso to do his settings, composers like Ravel, Stravinsky and Milhaud to write his music. Diaghilev fathered the Monte Carlo Company. He loved the Riviera, often took his dancers there to rehearse. When he died in 1929 a few stayed on because Charlotte, the hereditary Princess of Monaco, was interested in them. When Col. Vassily de Basil, a onetime Cossack...
...Chicago Friends manfully started their World's Fair concert season. Soprano Claire Dux, wife of Packer Charles Henry Swift, soloed without pay the opening night, brought the house cheering to its feet. Pianist Rudolph Ganz played next night. Ruth Page and a special corps de ballet danced to Ravel's Bolero night after that. Scheduled for this week is an all-Gershwin concert at which Gershwin will play the piano while his friend William Daly conducts; also a Negro night when the premiere of a symphony by Florence B. Trice will be played and the soloists will...
...entire program for the evening is as follows: Orchestra "Veritas" March Densmore "La Bello Helene" Overture Offenbach Caprice on Spanish Themes Rimsky-Korsakov Harvard Glee Club Salvation Belongeth to our God Tschesnokov Les Anges French Carol Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite Handel Orchestra Facade Walton Bolero Ravel Harvard Glee Club At Father's Door Fireflies Russian Folk Songs The Campbells Are Coming Scotch Folk Song Fair Harvard
...Ravel, Schmitt, Roussel," Professor Hill, Paine Hall, Music Building...