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...ideas concrete expression was his pupil, Mary Wigman, a tense, rawboned woman who was 27 before she decided on a dancer's career. Wigman soon claimed that she could feel herself "as one of the primal things, unable to speak life, only to dance it." To drum & cymbal accompaniment she danced in 1919 before an audience of the sick and neurasthenic at a Swiss Kurhaus. She looked scrawny and underfed, but she had developed her muscular control almost to perfection, danced with a strange violence, twisted herself to make harsh angular patterns, staring into space...
...week Friends' School celebrated its 50th anniversary-not in I Street but in a new Recreation Hall further out, on Massachusetts Avenue, where the first five grades are taught and where there are playgrounds and a gymnasium. For the Friends' jubilee the kindergarteners played lustily on drum, cymbal, triangle and xylophone, while a teacher accompanied on the piano. The primary pupils furnished a 30-piece orchestra. High school students strutted in the costumes of the past 50 years. Parents looked over exhibits of school work. None was happier than the stout, genial. soft-spoken old Quaker for whom...
Other items on Americana's bill which you will probably like: the Doris Humphrey Dance Group's wave dance, in which 14 girls leap, slide, fall forward and backward, accompanied only by a cymbal and the swish of their bodies against a slick blue floor; the same girls in an or- giastic interpretation of an oldtime Shaker meeting; a marionet show in which Alfred Emanuel Smith, Herbert Hoover and John Davison Rockefeller jig together with a chorus of little oil cans. Tunes: "Wouldja for a Big Red Apple?", "You're Not Pretty But You're Mine...
This year are attempt was made to get something new; one of the most important innovations in the Band was the addition of two cymbal players to the regular kinds of musicians. Another innovation this season was the addition of another drum-major to the membership, Paul Metcalf, a schoolboy, who wielded a baton for the first time shortly after the Bates game and under the tutelage of the leader of the Band, G. V. Slade '32, learned to manipulate it sufficiently well so that he made his appearance with the Band in the Dartmouth game...
...were represented. Among other memorable contributions were Olive Rush's delicate water colors, tonal hints of New Mexican scene and character. Rudolph Tandler showed a briskly drawn and water-colored lighthouse. Attuned to the Moon by Madeline S. Pereny was a rhythmic arrangement of four Negro dancers, four Negro cymbal players and a flautist, all under a glowing moon...