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...After a performance ... in an abandoned loft . . . Miss Dunham was summoned to the board room of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, which offers scholarships and fellowships for the study of Negro life. . . . When she stood before the professors and other astute ladies and gentlemen of the board, a committeeman asked politely what study she would like the fund to finance for her. 'It's a bit difficult to describe exactly,' she said. 'Do you mind if I show...
...While the scholars gasped, Miss Dunham shed her jacket and skirt and stood revealed in her rehearsal costume. . . . She did a short tribal war dance. 'I want to go where they dance like that. I want to find out why, how it started, and what influence it had on the people.' Obviously impressed, the chairman . . . leaned forward, and, without taking a vote, asked, 'How about the West Indies...
These paragraphs appear in one of the most readable Ph.D. dissertations ever written. Its author is a Negro who, like his subject, torrid Negro dancer Katherine Dunham, went out to observe and find out about living culture at first hand. This week at Cleveland's Western Reserve University the book helped Author Leslie Collins, 28, win the nation's first Ph.D. in American culture...
Frederic W. Hickman-Patricia Dunham (Radcliffe...
Katherine Dunham, rhythmic Negro choreographer (Tropical Revue), stepped high into Manhattan's swank East Seventies, bought a $200,000, 30-room mansion which she will turn into a dancing school. Neighbors in the same block: the Frick museum and a Vanderbilt town house...