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Central figure and near-hero of Wah'Kon-Tah is the late Laban J. Miles, a plump little Indian Agent who went to live with the Osages in 1878, died among them last year. An honest, endeavoring man, a Quaker like his nephew Herbert Hoover, who spent part of his boyhood at his uncle's agency, Agent Miles minded not only his charges' ways but his own, became the Osages' trusted friend. He kept a journal and kept it to himself. One of the ways Agent Miles fought the Indians' inevitable degeneration was by administering...
Died, Major Laban K. Miles, 87, uncle of President Herbert Hoover, onetime (1878-95) U. S. agent for the Osage Indians; after long illness; in Pawhuska, Okla. Known to the Indians as "White Father," he lived on the Osage Reservation for 53 years, advised, aided them in their local government. Young "Bert" Hoover lived in his home for a year at the age of 9, and at 14 after his father's death...
...half-underground chapel they stared curiously at the tombs of Woodrow Wilson, Admiral Dewey, Associated Pressman Melville E. Stone. They sat down in, armchairs facing the altar and their vice-chairman and secretary, the only ones present wearing canonicals, Bishop Charles Palmerston Anderson of Chicago and the Rev. Charles Laban Pardee...
...pranced and danced umbrella makers, luggage manufacturers, butchers, bakers, florists, plumbers, executing dance figures appropriate to their trades. Specially composed music, tunes of historical significance, were recorded on phonograph discs, broadcast from a central station, picked up and amplified on the floats. Author of the spectacle was Rudolf von Laban, Austrian painter, philosopher, choreographer. He was demonstrating his point that dancing lends itself as well as any of the arts to the purposes of commerce...
Next fall, Choreographer Laban expects to visit the U. S. Perhaps his idea will result in a National Streetdancing Advertising Co. Or perhaps he will find that the U. S. is not yet sufficiently ballet-conscious for the idea to "take...