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DANCE TO THE PIPER (342 pp.]-Agnes de Mille-Little, Brown ($3).
That afternoon was in the pattern of the next two decades. For Agnes de Mille, against the forceful objection of her father, Playwright William de Mille, and of her uncle, Movie Producer Cecil B. de Mille, set her foot on the thorny way to become a famous dancer. In Dance...
Lines of a Duck. "There was no place in the family point of view for failure," says Agnes, in describing her childhood. Her mother was the daughter of Henry George, the renowned Single-Taxer, her father had been a noted playwright since the age of 25, and Uncle Cecil was...
Agnes had her dancing debut in the late '20s, in the days when Martha Graham was pioneering modern dance. Agnes was soon a close admirer of that fiercely esthetic priestess, but she never became an acolyte. It has been the distinction of Dancer de Mille's career that...
Tea & Cats. The era Brooks finds confident did not begin very promisingly. In New York, Novelist Edgar Saltus and Playwright Clyde Fitch were turning out popular confections. Saltus believed that only three qualities mattered in fiction: "Style, style polished and style repolished." Fitch was a chameleon "who changed his color...