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...help catch the reflections, Vogue has introduced to fashion coveys of high-priced painters (Christian Berard, Edouard Benito) and photographers (Cecil Beaton, Edward Steichen, Anton Bruehl). Its fine arts man is puttery Frank Crowninshield, 75, famed editor of famed Vanity Fair until Vogue gobbled it. Mrs. Chase and courtly Iva Sergei Voidato ("Pat") Patcevitch, successor to Nast, have admitted articles to their pages, but no fiction. "It shows a lack of sustained thinking," Pat thinks, "to run fiction in a fashion magazine . . . it is distracting...
...IVA MAY WARNER
Tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) Iva Kitchell, 27, has mastered the basic techniques of all ballet styles. She joined the Chicago Opera ballet company at 14, aped the ballerinas backstage so mercilessly that her ballet master suggested she turn comedienne. She has since appeared in almost every small Manhattan dance auditorium except the Young Men's Hebrew Association. ("I was never asked. I suppose because I'm not pure dance. I'm an impure dancer...
Seek & Search. Iva Kitchell has nothing against any school of dancing ("I just think there's something completely ridiculous about anything that's too serious"). In one dance (called Oriental Dance by an Occidental Girl) she flips her fingers and toes and picks up a handkerchief with her teeth. But she shines in Soul in Search, satirizing the Dark Meadows dance in which Martha Graham rolls herself up in a black cloth which seems to symbolize the labyrinths of a frustrated libido. As Iva Kitchell, hopelessly mired in yards of purple muslin, thrashes about on the floor...
Says impious Iva Kitchell: "I think Martha Graham is a fine artist, although I did think it was pretty funny when she got under that piece of cloth...