Word: swans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Five years ago last month a slender, waxen-faced woman of 45 lay ill with pleurisy in a hotel room in The Hague. A sedative had been given to spare her pain. Quietly, as if entranced, she spoke to her maid: "Marguerite! My swan costume!" As if she were hearing an unseen orchestra, Anna Pavlova lifted her arms, fluttered her hands. "Play that last measure softly," she murmured. And before the world realized that she was seriously ill the great Russian dancer was dead...
...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...
Died. Oliver Peter Heggie, 57, Australian-born character actor of stage (Androcks & the Lion, The Truth About Blayds) and screen (The Letter, The Swan, The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu); of pneumonia; in Hollywood, a few days after completing the role of Dr. MacIntyre in the cinema, The Prisoner of Shark Island...