Word: isadora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked now as if Raymond Duncan, brother of the late Isadora and undisputed leader of the homespun Attic cult in Paris, would be busy with salons on two continents. In Manhattan for his first visit in 15 years, Raymond was charmed with the place, planned to shuttle back & forth between Paris and Manhattan hereafter. "New York," said 72-year-old Raymond, his feet in sandals, his pageboy bob in a silvery fillet, "is like an old California mining town. ..." While he was at it he discussed miners. "The miners have a gun . . . and the public has to give up! ... Unions...
George Bernard Shaw once made (or is supposed to have made) a classic retort to Isadora Duncan's eugenic proposal: "Madam, what if our child should have your brain and my body?" Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace has spent much of his working life investigating the implications of G.B.S.'s rude rejoinder...
What Is Beauty. The Hindu dancer ShanKar would not board a train unless he was well supplied with movie fan magazines. Hurok learned to handle all such oddities of temperament-all but Isadora Duncan's. Once in Boston's Symphony Hall, Isadora's husband, an enthusiastic Communist, waved a red flag from a dressing room window, made a speech to the crowd below. While she danced, Isadora's dislike of her Brahmin audience got the best of her. She stopped, pointed indignantly at the Greek statues against the wall, shouted to the audience: "They are false...
...venerable Episcopal Church of St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie; in Washington. Appointed rector of quiet, 145-year-old St. Mark's in 1911, handsome, Scottish-born Dr. Guthrie quickly displayed a talent for religious showmanship, installed colored lights, gongs and incense, asked non-believers like Dancer Isadora Duncan to speak at services, symbolically tethered a black sheep in the churchyard. When in 1923, Dr. Guthrie put on a show of eurythmic dances in the church by six bare-legged Barnard girls, Bishop William Thomas Manning removed St. Mark's from his Episcopal visiting list (so that...
Raymond Duncan, esthetic brother of the late, free-loving danseuse Isadora Duncan, celebrated the occupation of his adopted Paris by donning his famed pre-war getup, Greek toga and sandals, then marching to the U.S. Embassy with the U.S. flag in hand. He gave the banner to the Swiss caretaker, proceeded to sing Yankee Doodle until he was hoarse...