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...interpretative dancing is currently in low repute after years of twitting for its fat women in Greek robes and coy postures; if it is being hard pressed by such modernist schools as that of Mary Wigman, it is at least more alive than it was before the great Isadora began to teach. Last week's Stadium audience seemed aware of this when it gave its greatest applause not to the elaborate group dances but to the simple little one which Irma Duncan had got from her foster mother...
Deputy Edouard Herriot, leader of the Radical Socialists who won most seats in the new Chamber of Deputies directly after President Doumer's death, remained coy to all correspondents last week, hinted that he may not try to become Premier when the Chamber reconvenes June 1, may prefer to become a second Aristide Briand, holding the Foreign Ministry and supporting as Premier his good friend Senator Paul Painlevé, a Republican Socialist. That M. Herriot is the power behind the political throne in France was shown when he and President Lebrun jointly received the Corps Diplomatique last week...
...Ates, Edna May Oliver and George Arliss. A girl named Kitty Kelly sings three Gershwin songs from the stage version of Girl Crazy ("I've Got Rhythm." "Bidin' My Time," "Not for Me"). Eventually the happy adjustment of a minor romance between the dude rancher (Eddie Quillan) and a coy Arizonan (Arline Judge) serves as an excuse to end the picture. Typical shot: Wheeler & Woolsey tweaking the nose of a wild west villain (Stanley Fields...
...Field," John Hastings Turner's comedy, by the Radcliffe Idlers at Agassiz Hall, is unusual among amateur performances in that the play was distinctly less interesting than the acting. Such at least was the verdict of the CRIMSON critic, who saw little to his taste in the coy tale of two Campfire girls (more or less) adventuring in dear old London. The acting of the Idler comediennes, and their Radcliffe colleagues, though marked by the common defeats of amateur theatrics, possessed enough freshness and spontaneity to lift the performances above the average of its kind...
...initiative, now needed finally to dispel the danger of a collapse, Germany took like a bashful Brünnhilde last week with these coy words: "The idea has come more and more to the front of ... convoking a special advisory committee...