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...Monte Carlo Ballet Russe which, before its current tour is over, may well gross $1,000,000 (TIME, Oct. 21). But the fact that Martha Graham was courageous and confident enough to want to face audiences of plain people, unbiased by the adoring intellectuals who hail her as a priestess, gave a fresh importance to the dance she represents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Modern Dancer | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...White House priestess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRAYER | 1/29/1936 | See Source »

Founder and high priestess of the Apostolic Faith is an indomitable white-haired woman named "Mother" Florence Louise Crawford, 63. She believes that God spoke to her in 1906 when, twice married and the mother of two, she was dancing. "I did not know the voice of God and went on in the dance. . . . My feet became heavy and the place was no longer beautiful to me. Again the voice spoke much louder, 'Daughter, give me thine heart!' The music died away and I left the ballroom; and for three days and nights I prayed and wept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Camp Meeting | 8/19/1935 | See Source »

...quite understand, Alice. What the Clam is really saying is that you've got that certain something.. that certain 'Je ne sais quoi'... well, you've got personality, Mana; and that's exactly what the Amazulu value so much and why they would make you a priestess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/17/1935 | See Source »

...really couldn't be their priestess," said Alice modestly. "You see I'm a Presbyterian and they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/17/1935 | See Source »

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