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Bennett F. Bute, assistant in Geology, is already doing geology work in Persia, having left for Asia May 8. His position with the American OH Company takes him into the interior plateau of Persia, a region practically unknown geographically...
...assistants in Geology, Otto O. Schmedeman, and Frederick M. Chace are second only to Bute in remoteness from Cambridge. Their summer address will be Cerro de Pasco. Peru where they are carrying on work in economic geology...
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...
Born-To John Crichton-Stuart, Earl of Dumfries, 25, eldest son of the Marquess of Bute; and Eileen Beatrice Forbes Crichton-Stuart, second daughter of the Earl of Granard, niece of Ogden Livingston Mills; twin sons; in London. The elder is heir to one of Britain's biggest hereditary estates...