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...Anitra's Dance (M. E. Bute) is five minutes of film in which appears no person, no utilitarian thing. It is an attempt to provoke emotion by the dramatic movements of abstract objects, accompanied by the music of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite. In time to the music, a galaxy of rings swim into view, a pyramid intrudes, something resembling a piano keyboard rolls over & over, 50 balls pass deliberately across the screen. This unhuman cinema is, according to its author, the first entirely abstract film ever made and shown...
Author and producer is Mary Ellen Bute, daughter of a Texas landowner and second cousin of Woodrow Wilson's Colonel Edward Mandell House. After three years' work and 18 unproduced animated cartoons of abstract dramas, she hired a cameraman and made Anitra's Dance in three months for $3,000 in her Manhattan apartment. To get her abstract effects, she used sheets of crumpled Cellophane, an egg-cutter, prisms, toy pyramids, ping pong balls, velvet, sparklers, bracelets and, chiefly, camera angles. Although the pyramids are intended to suggest the fact that Anitra danced in the Egyptian desert...
...ANITRA'S DANCE-Fannie Hurst-Har-per ($2.50). "The world wagged. Sophie wagged. Waxman wagged. How furiously it all wagged and wagged." With such arrestingly waggish words Author Fannie Hurst (Mrs. Jacques S. Danielson) this week slapped down the first course of her latest table d'hote, Anitra's Dance. Many a reader whose appetite rejoices in hearty fare tucked in his napkin, smacked his lips and fell to with a will. His nose immediately told him that here was another full-fleshed Hurstwurst, stuffed to bursting point, garnished with garlic, well-lapped in rich gravy. Critics...
...Pops Concert tonight in Symphony Hall, Alfredo Casella will conduct the orchestra of 80 Symphony Players in the following program: March from "Aida" Verdi Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg a. Morning Mood b. Aase's Death c. Anitra's Dance King's Grotto d. In the Troll Overture to "Tannhauser" Wagner "Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier "Pacific 2-3-4," Symphonicment Move Honegger "Italia," Rhapsody Casella Ballet of the Hours from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli Infermezzo, "Cavalleria Rusticana" Maseagnt Marche Slave Tchaikovsky
...following program will be given at the Pops concert in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock tonight: Marche Militaire Schubert Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg a. Morning Mood b. Death of Aase c. Anitra's Dance d. In the Troll King's Grotto Boston Square and Compass Club Chorus a. O. Italia, Italia," from "Luerezia b. Rolling Down to Rio German c. Moonlight and Roses Lemare Overture to "Oberon" Weber Prelude to Act III. "Traviata" Verdi Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner Overture to "William Tell" Rossini