Word: isadora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Expatriate Raymond Duncan, the late Dancer Isadora's creaky, Hellenoid brother, long one of the sights of Paris (see cut), arrived in the U.S. to spend a year celebrating his 75th birthday. With the Attic cultist came a member of the faithful whom he introduced as Mrs. Aia Bertrand, "a sort of Svengali." He planned to put on his own opera ("a comic tragedy") in Manhattan's Town Hall, in which he would insure uniform quality by playing all the roles. Admission: free...
Died. Elizabeth Duncan, 77, eccentric, bang-haired dance instructor and elder sister of famed Dancer Isadora Duncan; of a heart ailment; in Tübingen, Germany. Elizabeth said that she picked up her "dance of life" theory (body movements keyed to the laws of nature) from the California redwoods and the sea lions at San Francisco...
...though she was actually born in the London suburb of Lewisham, beyond the sound of Bow Bells. Her parents, she remembers, were "a bit arty-went in for pacifism, vegetarianism, Socialism and all that." At ten, she met Raymond Duncan, who sent her to study dancing with his sister Isadora. At 16, Elsa organized a London theater company, which put on one-act plays by Chekhov and Pirandello...
Paris' Raymond Duncan, exoatriate brother of Dancer Isadora, headed for San Francisco on his first visit to hu old home town in 38 years, stopped off en route at Los Angeles, in flowing Grecian robes, sandals, long hair and all, and explained his philosophy of actionalism: "I'm not teaching-I'm living a philosophy. I'm like a rabbit on a vivisection table: I'm living...
...marry Pueblo Indian Tony Luhan (TIME, May 5). To Mabel, Sterne "seemed old and spent and tragic, while Tony was whole and young in the cells of his body." Sterne was not too spent to get married a second time, to Vera Segal, a honey-haired follower of Dancer Isadora Duncan...