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Such was Balustrade, a ballet presented last week in Manhattan by Sol Hurok. It was the windup of the longest season of Russian ballet-14 weeks-the city had ever seen. Balustrade, like the ballets of the old days in Paris, was a pudding of the several arts. The music was by Igor Stravinsky, and conducted by him. It was his Violin Concerto, played by Samuel Dush-kin, who helped "edit" it ten years ago and is about the only fiddler who ever saws it through. The choreography was by George Balanchine (born Balanchivadze in Russian Georgia), who never tires...
Before 10 a.m. the big committee room was crowded. Behind the horseshoe desk, puffing reflective pipes, cigarets, or gnawing at cigars, sat 23 members of the 25-man House Foreign Affairs Committee; in the middle of the curve crouched little Sol Bloom, chairman, looking like a Neanderthal man dressed up in clothes. Facing him were small tables and chairs-for witnesses and their staffs. In the well squatted photographers, fidgeting with flash bulbs. Sitting in every seat, almost as visibly present as the Congressmen, spectators, Capitol policemen, messengers, newsreel cameramen, were tensions, anxieties, fears, great expectations. The bill before...
Into the room came the first witness, a slender man whose shoulders stooped with 69 years, striding gravely in a worn, shiny blue serge suit, his hair silvery-white, his face pale as candle wax, his brown eyes a little sharp under his salt-&-pepper eyebrows. Little Sol Bloom scrambled down from his eminence to be photographed with Secretary of State Hull. Mr. Hull sat down, began to read his prepared statement, his long pale hands trembling slightly...
...been a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats. Now the Southern Democrats are interventionist almost to a man and Republicans are hopelessly split. Isolationist Senators Wheeler, Taft, Nye and Clark might filibuster; House isolationists might balk-but two men held all the cards this week: 1) prognathous, gnomish Representative Sol Bloom of New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; 2) austere, pompous Senator Walter George of Georgia, his opposite number in the Senate...
...ahead of his time, and not above shocking his audiences. Mr. Hurok's two troupes make little effort at even keeping up to date. Massine's ballet, St. Francis, whose music by Paul Hindemith is among the best in the modern theatre, has slipped from the repertory; Sol Hurok does not like it. Among the new ballets now presented by the two companies, the best has to do with a man who died a century ago, Fiddler Paganini...