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...Dancing to rock 'n' roll has become such a private reverie, in fact, that a partner, except in deference to custom, is not necessary. And that is its great attraction. Since couples neither touch nor even look at each other, all the shyness some men and women have about dancing???clammy hands, missing a beat, stepping on feet, etc.?is removed and, as one club owner says, "Everybody goes off into their own narcissistic...
...Isadora Duncan's many loves came three children, all of whom died before she did. Her theories on dancing??? the classic, plastic picture, the lively interpretation of non-ballet music, the accomplished foot-work?she handed on to her six adopted daughters. Of these. Margot is dead. Erica retired. Therese married Manhattan Art Dealer Stephan Bourgeois. Lisa of the pretty blonde curls has turned modernist, dances in Paris. Dark, classic-featured Anna was once the leader of the group, toured the U. S. some ten years ago with Lisa and Margot. Because of stories about Isadora's Communistic leanings they...
Music Box Revue. Another gorgeous spectacle?another moving curtain, this time a mermaid-one?much color?much beauty?only occasional lapses in taste?Grace Moore's voice ?Florence O'Denishawn's dancing??? Frank Tinney?Josephy Santley? John Steel?Florence Moore. And this time, praises be, a revue with at least three uproariously funny interjections: R. C. Benchley's inimitable reading of the treasurer's report; a skit entitled If Men Played Cards as Women Do; an operatic rendering of Yess, We Have No Bananas! In many ways easily the best of all the revues...
Political rights for women is part of the bunka movement. There is a bunka restaurant in Tokyo where men and women meet to discuss politics on common ground. Tennis for women is bunka, but dancing???dancing is to the Japanese too degrading to be known as bunka. Books dealing with the part women are playing in democracy are bunka novels. In other words, bunka is the thin edge of the wedge for enfranchizing the little ladies of Nippon...
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