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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lafayette Page of Indiana, mother of Dancer Ruth Page, fell under the Wigman spell in Germany last year, interested other Indianapolis matrons who imported a Wigman teacher, started the first unofficial Wigman school...
...Detroit, Mich., a young Jugoslav applied for naturalization papers, was asked his name. "It's Vazil Rasko Ferarrav- wait, I'll spell it for you." he replied. He did: Ferarravoceincmooceuigearmodccoui. Choler...
...double for the Corsican. Mr. Truex's first job is to tell a comely actress (Peggy Shannon) that he no longer loves her. But although she sees through the impersonation, she becomes enamored of the substitute, makes him spend the night. Josephine (Frieda Inescort) also falls under his spell. When Mr. Truex finally returns to the mercantile business, he is assured of the patronage of the whole court and Comedie Franchise. Says he: "If my strength holds out we'll have the biggest store in Paris." Picked for pulchritude, the ladies of the cast are not all expert...
...Jackson biographers, "and spitefully and most unjustly wrote in his diary. 'As myself, an affectionate child of our Alma Mater, I would not be present to witness her diagrace in conferring her highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammer and hardly could spell his own name...
...atmosphere breathed its spell upon him. This would never do! Death and the graveyard spun their eery way through the network of his brain. An owl screeched in the German Museum. His mind played pranks and he looked down the dismal stretches to the rain-swept pavement below. Suicide...