Word: isadora
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...model of every artist's dream. "Imagine," wrote French Dramatist Henri Lavedan, "a woman with a body that suggests the perfection of Greek sculpture." "An antique marble," marveled Sculptor Antoine Bourdelle. "The Parthenon itself!" exclaimed Critic Carl van Vechten. She was America's first great dancer, Isadora Duncan...
Unfortunately, no movie camera recorded Isadora's magnificent improvisations. But as the toast of tout Paris during the Belle Epoque, Isadora was the most portrayed woman in the world. Thanks to the sketches and plaster models by such artists as Auguste Rodin, Bourdelle and André Dunoyer de Segonzac, her magnificent gestures and magnetic personality were captured, and last week Isadora was "on" again -this time in the Bourdelle Museum in Paris' Montparnasse, where over a hundred drawings, sketches and figure studies of her were on display...
Died. Edward Gordon Craig, 94, British theater producer and designer, the son of Actress Ellen Terry, who acted with Henry Irving, designed sets for Stanislavsky, was a friend of Max Reinhardt, a foe of George Bernard Shaw, the lover of Isadora Duncan, and a controversial genius widely credited with many of the major stage innovations since the turn of the century; of a stroke; in Vence, France...
Nearly 500 friends, followers, and just plain curious crammed into the Left Bank studio-gallery-theater of America's pioneer Beatnik Raymond Duncan for his 88th birthday blowout. The bespectacled old expatriate, whose pad is almost a photographic shrine to his late sister, Dancer Isadora Duncan, gave them a weirdly nostalgic show. In a quavering saloon tenor he sang My Old Kentucky Home; then, unshorn silver locks and hand-woven toga flying, he launched into a frantic soft-sandal jig. The Dior-dressed segment of the crowd dug it deep. But the modern beats, obviously distressed that no food...
...York, in turn becoming involved in three tormented marriages, countless love affairs, desperate attempts at psychoanalysis, and a dozen mystical philosophies; after a long illness; in Taos, N. Mex. Once described as a "species of headhunter" by Malcolm Cowley, she brought the likes of Lincoln Steffens, John Reed, Isadora Duncan, Gertrude Stein and Walter Lippmann together for discussions of Marx, Freud, birth control and anarchy, until tiring of city high life, she moved to Taos in 1917, proclaiming "Holy! Holy! Holy! Lord God Almighty! ... I am here," married a Pueblo Indian, and settled down to write her Intimate Memories that...