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Eight years ago there were two Harvard freshmen who used to stay up nights to moon over ballet. One was short, one was tall but both were rich. Edward M. M. Warburg was Banker Felix Warburg's son. Lincoln Kirstein's father ran Filene's department store in Boston. At Harvard Warburg and Kirstein started a Society for Contemporary Art. After graduation their violent interest in Modern Art continued. Last winter they finally fulfilled their youthful ambition by founding the School of American Ballet...
...Hartford last week, at its first public exhibition, the Warburg-Kirstein School presented Alma Mater, a rip-roaring burlesque for which Edward Warburg wrote the scenario and Kay Swift, his comely cousin-by-marriage, the music.* Harvardman Warburg picked Yale as the scene for his collegiate horseplay. Against a backdrop depicting Portal 6 ?A of the Yale Bowl cavort John Held Jr. characters in John Held Jr. costumes. Girls appear in short leopard-skin jackets, decorated with chrysanthemums and blue satin ribbons, while Kay Swift's music blends bits of "Boola-Boola" with off-stage cheers...
...Warburg's Villain is a typical college "drunk" who wears a coonskin coat and tries to make love to the heroine. But she is infatuated with a footballer (Charles Laskey) who, badly banged up after a game, is carried in on the shoulders of adoring young Yalemen. Left alone with the heroine he tackles her at the knees, rolls her over, suddenly becomes exhausted and limp...
...there to celebrate the 50th birthday of the famed Manhattan girls' school which he started in a small brownstone house on East 45th Street. They were proud that Brearley had attracted the daughters of Cleveland H. Dodge, Herbert L. Satterlee, Oswald Garrison Villard, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Felix M. Warburg, Owen D. Young. They were proud that Brearley had schooled such distinguished personages as Dean Virginia Gildersleeve of Barnard, Mrs. Charles Carey Rumsey, Sculptress Malvina Hoffman, Actresses Michael Strange and Hope Williams, Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney...
Seeking Divorce. Katharine Swift ("Kay") Warburg; from James Paul Warburg, 38, vice chairman of Bank of the Manhattan Co., onetime New Dealer and Undersecretary of the Treasury, monetary adviser to the U. S. delegation to the 1933 London Economic Conference, co-author with his wife of musicomedy lyrics (the first Little Show, Fine and Dandy), son of the late Paul Moritz Warburg; in Reno...