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...Mendelssphn *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss -- *"The Animals' Carnival," Grand Zoological Fantasia Saint-Saens Introduction and Royal March of the Lion, Cocks and Hens, Horses of Tartary (Fleet Animals), Tortoises. The Elephant, Kangaroos, Personages with long ears, The Cuckoo in the depth of the forest, Planists, The Swan (Solo xioloncello, J. Langendoen), Finale. Planes: Jesus Maria Sauroma Leo Litwin Prize Song from "Die Meisteringer von Nurnberg Wagner *"Pathetic" Symphony, No. 6 Tchaikovaky Third movement--Alegro molto vivace -- *Selection, "The Fortune Teller" Herbert *Song of the Volga Bargemen Arr. by Glasennov *American Patrol Meacham -- Selections checked (*) are available...
...Prario '39, J. E. Regan, Jr. '39, F. Rogosin '39, L. S. Rosenberg '39, W. F. Schreiter '38, R. Senior '39, R. E. Shalen '37, C. B. Slade '39, R. A. Soloman '39, W. H. Stearns 1G, F. H. Stedman '37, R. E. L. Strider, II '39, M. W. Swan '39, H. S. Wallis '36, B. E. Wright...
...reported to have said: "Let's call him 'Jean-Ai-Assez.' [I've had enough]." This number of Vu also offered a page of photographs of some extraordinary animals. There was a cow-pigeon, a sheep-duck, a zebra headed like a rhinoceros, a monstrous swan wattled like a rooster. "Nature is an inexhaustible mystery," reflected Vu, explaining that the pictures had been obtained in "The Wild Forests of Brazil." Elsewhere in the issue were text and pictures showing how "the famous German Professor Julius Lirpa" had perfected a method for extracting gold from the scales...
...Pavlova have been able to forget her impersonation of the swan, a creature who first hovered lightly on her toes, typified all Death when she crumpled to the floor in a motionless mound of tarlatan and feathers. Last week at the Regal Theatre in London Pavlova danced again, in a series of cinema films linked together and called The Immortal Swan. Producer was her husband, Victor Dandré, who was releasing the pictures for the first time to raise funds for a Pavlova Memorial Fountain to be executed by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles on a site already approved in London...
Most effective was the Swan Dance, filmed by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford when Pavlova visited them in Hollywood in 1930, a few months before her death. Strangest shot was one taken by Dandré in Pavlova's garden in Hampstead which showed her in a simple gingham dress, stretched out on the flagstones beside a pool and talking to a pet swan. Dandre hid behind a bush to take the picture with a small sound camera, recorded his wife's curious, high-pitched voice as she called: "Come on, Jack, come Jacko, oh darling." Members...