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...Jean White, Wellesley Drue King, Jr. Hope Imes, Wellesley Henry P. King, Jr. Sylvia Choate, Boston Hayward S. Kirby, Jr. Happy Burke Louis R. Kroll Mary Milnor, Dalton School Stanley Lampert Charlotte Sheinkopf, Boston James P. Lannon, II Betsy Nilson, St. Catherine's William H. Latimer, Jr. Deedee Dunham Endicott Junior College Allan L. Levine Sue Rogers, Brookline Dean B. Lewis Jeanne H. Grange, Beaver Burton R. Lewkowitz Dura Toures, Penn Hall Mark Linenthal, Jr. Shirley Mitchell, Radcliffe Robert M. Lockwood Ann Flick, Philadelphia Caleb Loring, Jr. Betty Weaver, Andover Alfred Lurie Garry Penne William G. Lyle, Jr. Helen Farnsworth...
...terpsichorean rout, rumbaing, impersonating Inca and Martinique maids, flaunting a big cigar in her mouth as a West Indian on an excursion, shimmying in a Florida barrel house, cakewalking as "de Tah Baby" in a ballet on Bre'r Rabbit. This live-wire dancer was Katherine Dunham, young Chicagoan, starting a series of Manhattan recitals with the best Negro dance group yet assembled...
...University of Chicago, decade ago, Katherine Dunham majored in anthropology, with her eye on the dance as a primitive social manifestation. On the side she taught dancing, formed dance groups. In 1936 Miss Dunham persuaded the Rosenwald Foundation to send her to the West Indies to study the dances of Jamaica, Haiti, Martinique, Trinidad. Un like most anthropologists, Miss Dunham could break down the shyness of her subjects by cutting expert capers. Awed Haitians were sure she had "a piece" of their native god. Conversing in English and French patois, she picked up many a trick step, including...
Back at the University of Chicago, Miss Dunham took her B. A. degree, wrote a thesis on Haitian dances...
...found time to take her M. A. finals. Unmarried, Miss Dunham spends twelve hours a day in the theatre, says her aim is: "To attain a status in the dance world that will give to the Negro dance student the courage really to study, and the reason...