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...Class One--those young women who peer at the world through spectacles, convex, concave, or prismatic: who wear the good old-fashioned shirtwaist, and the skirt with the scalloped hem line: who discourse learnedly on economics and classical philology; and who face life behind the bulwark of a summa. We know there must be such, because we have heard of them. We have, however, yet to meet...
Tilly Losch learned to feel comfortable in a ballet skirt at the Wiener StaatsOper (Vienna) when she was six years old. She has been on the payroll ever since, obtaining sundry leaves of absence. Her only previous U. S. appearance was in Max Reinhardt's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1927) but she directed the dances for Noel Coward's recent revue This Year of Grace and his current musi-comedy Bitter Sweet. Most of the routines in Wake Up and Dream are also hers...
...laid a short ceremonial dagger beside the little Princess, a gift from her father the Emperor Hirohito which she will have by her all through her life to protect her from harm. Because she is a girl, he laid beside the dagger a tiny purple hakama, or ceremonial skirt. Soon came government officials led by bushy-browed Prime Minister Yugo Hamaguchi to pay their respects to the Empress. Shinto priests held thanksgiving services at three shrines in the palace: the Kashikodokoro, shrine of the Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess, Japan's holiest relic; the Ancestor's shrine...
...maneuverings of lady's skirt...
...high, with a wooden chalet roof, was built by the Count de Maaroes and stands on a site first used by Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto, Napoleon's Minister of the Interior. From the terrace on which he was sitting the ground tapered away into a shadowy skirt of pines, cedar, lindens he had laid out himself - the park. With his Polish land sold, now that Pilsudski was in power there, this place had become to the pianist, far more than his property at Nyon or his ranches in California, important as the background of his comfort. With...