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...Ivan Kirov), subject to fits of homicidal insanity, marries a budding ballerina (Viola Essen), who hopes that his dancing and her love will work a cure. Great Teacher Judith Anderson and threadbare Impresario Michael Chekhov, torn between terror and balletomania, hover unhappily in the wings. Another sideliner, Poet Lionel Stander, grates out Mr. Hecht's own highly debatable views on Love & Art, and dashes an occasional gruelly tear from his granitic eye. To climax a triumphant tour, the dancer's mind finally cracks and he turns his own (and mad Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky's) great role...
...Angeles' Burbank Theater was known to the trade as a "hoodoo house" when a lean, sandy-haired, 23-year-old manager named Oliver Mitchell took it over in 1899. Weaned in the theater as a "top stander" in a family acrobatic act called The Three Moroscos, Oliver assumed the name Morosco. He struck out for himself at the age of twelve, became assistant manager of a theater at 16. At 35, in the Burbank, he produced a musical hit, The Bird of Paradise...
...weather is not all that is bitter in Boston. A case of mistaken identity found a well-placed blow thrust at the chin of innocent by-stander Ron Holain, and Ohio's own is nursing a morning after chin. "Next time I'll pick a fight," quock our hero as he regained his feet. The oldest man in the world, M. C. Smith, originally dubbed "Smitty" by his 69-year-old brother, had a joyous ranchy (spelled "rancid") week end in the company of many Chase Hall stalwarts including Dave Staff and Milcap's one man gang, Bill Stark...
...record "The Power of America in Buildings," as the exhibition was called, Ferriss spent ten months and a $2,000 Arnold W. Brunner grant which the Architectural League of New York gave him last year. With his artist wife as aide and chief stander-by and his Swarthmore daughter Jean, who was gathering material for a thesis (The Effects of Locality on Authors), Ferriss motored 18,000 miles...
...Errol "Custer's-Last-Stand" Flynn as he enters West Point. Here we see that he is a bad (really good) boy with a rebellious spirit, great imagination, and native fighting ability. After this, we see Errol the Civil War hero, Errol the Indian saviour, and Errol the "last stander," before the movie ends on a note of gaudy patriotism...