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Then a greying, grandmotherly woman wearing dancing slippers put a Strauss waltz on the phonograph and went to work. As always, the goal for Marian Chace, 62, the nation's leading dance therapist, was to make contact with the mentally ill, through music and movement...
...Great Pleasures." Rhode Island-born Marian Chace grew up in Washington after her newsman father switched from the Providence Journal to the Washington Star. She once studied with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, has taught dancing all her adult life. In the mid-'30s Washington psychiatrists began sending her children who were having difficulty in school or at home. In 1942, after she had had some success, Dr. Overholser invited her to work at St. Elizabeths as the first U.S. dance therapist. At that time, most psychiatrists felt that it was impossible to work in groups with acute...
...Therapist Chace become that she has taken basic courses at the Washington School of Psychiatry, regularly attends clinical sessions at the hospital. She has trained most of the nation's dance therapists, is also a leader in the related field of drama therapy. Full of honors and awards, Marian Chace still feels a surge of triumph when a patient manages to dance his way-however briefly-out of his world of isolation. Says she: "They offer to carry the record player, or choose a record, or get together to plan a production. These are the great pleasures...
...earlier years of the Eisenhower Administration, Artur Rubinstein, Hildegarde and Marian Anderson, among others, have played the White House.*Only last year some show business commentators-including Critic Coe-blamed the Eisenhowers for requesting too many command performances (traditionally unpaid) from well-known entertainers. Ike never cared much for White House vaudeville (the acts are booked by Mary Jane McCaffree, Mamie's secretary), prefers movies, which he takes along on his vacations (he likes westerns, but has been known to protest when they show cavalry procedure incorrectly). As for Lawrence Welk, both the Eisenhowers and the Nixons...
...guests, invited such performers as Paderewski and Actress Ethel Barrymore. Neither Herbert Hoover nor Calvin Coolidge went in for such lighthearted entertainment, although Coolidge once had John Barrymore to dinner before going to the National to see the Great Profile play Hamlet. Both F.D.R. (he liked Lawrence Tibbett, Marian Anderson, Kate Smith and Mickey Mouse, among others) and Truman were major White House impresarios...