Felix Cherniavsky - Contextual Research

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Felix Cherniavsky - Contextual Research

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DANCER'S SWORD VICTIM MAY LIVE Spectator Hit by Flying Weapon of Russian Mordkin Helped Stay Theatre Panic . Fearing that Shiverick would die , the i police took the names of Mordkin and some of the other ; principals , but no at tempt made to detain them , the man arement promising that they would re . turn 17 called upon The mpany has engaged a lawyer to look after its inter AS a heavy law suit is expected . Shiverick came here recently from Oma ha . Neb , where his father le A wealthy man . H. had been at Cornell University , but his eyes troubled him and his father sent him here to manage a largo depart ment stor , in which he has a controlling interest . BLADE SLIPPED FROM HILT Morskin and Pavlowa Danced On to Keep Hamilton Audience Quiet while Doctors " Rushed Medical Ald . Jen 2014914 P.S. the survived ( free Hanulton papers # 6 Special to The New York Times . HAMILTON , Ontario , Jan. 19. - Robert Shiverick of Omaha , Neb . , whose brain was pierced by the socket end of a sword blade which flew into the audience out of the hand of M. Mikail Mordkin at the per formance of " Russian Imperial Ballet . ' here yesterday , has a fighting chance for his life to - night according to the doctors who operated upon him . As soon as the shattered fragınents of bone which pressed against the front portion of the brain were removed Shiverick recovered con sciousness , and he rested fairly well to day . Septic poisoning is what the physi clans fear . Only the presence of mind of the injured man and the performers pre vented a panic in the theatre , which was crowded to tho doors with a fashionable audience . Toward the close of the first part of the programme Mordkin and two soldiers engaged in a dance with clashing swords . Like a flash Mordkin's blade shot out of the hilt and salled over the heads of the orchestra , Imbedding itself in Shiverick's head just above the left temple . While one man held his shoulders , ' two others pulled the blade .out . " Hurry , for God's sake , before my face 18 covered with blood ; it will create a panic ! " he said . He clasped a handker chief to his forehead and rushed to the back of the house , whero he collapsed . Half a dozen physicians who were in the audience hurried him to the hospital in an ambulance . Men and women who sat close to Shiverick fainted . * Mordkin paused for an instant and con tinued the dance . Mlle . Anna Pavlowa , who saw the sword strike the man , stag . gered to one side and upset an incense lamp , which started & fire . The stage hands extinguished it , however , before the audience became alarmed , and Pas lowa pulled herself together and contin ued to dance . Mordkin's nerves were badly 1 shaken , and later , at the close of a drink - 1 Ing scene , he accidentally threw a heavy metal cup over the footlights , so that cer tain musicians in the orchestra had a