Word: priestesses
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...also fond of. Thereupon Florabel picks another man, an unfortunate choice because the other man's wife stabs Florabel. Then follow some of the liveliest obsequies to be seen on the stage since Porgy. Miss Orchid drops her city ways.succumbs to the ancestral voodoo call, turns into a priestess. That part of Savage Rhythm will probably lift you out of your chair...
When a dancer who is also a "messiah" and a "priestess" sets forth on a transcontinental tour, the continent in question can scarcely ignore. For a messiah gathers disciples and a priestess casts spells. Middle-aged Dancer Mary Wigman has thousands of followers in Germany. Last year she started bewitching the U. S. but her time was short. She began again last week in Providence, R. I., had the mixed reception that daring exhibitionists must expect. Most people applauded her wildly or sat in a state of self-conscious hush. Some groped for her message and were honestly perplexed...
...about the stage, sang in a big, booming voice which often lacked control. Thinner, infinitely more polished, she has progressed until now she alone at the Metropolitan is believed capable of singing the early Italian roles which only the great oldtime singers have sung successfully, roles like Norma, the priestess in La Vestale, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, operas which might never have been revived if there had not been a voice with the range and flexibility of Ponselle's. She has still much to learn. She will never have the grace of Bori, the subtlety of Garden, the force...
...comfortably married, well-off, happy. Susan swallowed her pride, rested and revived her soul. Her ambition stirred again when rich, pious David Pell fell in love with her. She persuaded him to start a new sect, to found a religious community in the country with herself as head priestess. When her husband Clarabut's death was reported in the newspaper Susan's faith was once more made firm. It was a shock when just before her wedding to Pell she discovered Clarabut was alive after all. But Susan decided not to let her Career founder on such...
...came to the seashore, when he begged a night's lodging of a priestess of Isis. In her he found his feminine complement, and was happy for the first time in his life. But her followers resented him, discovered his scars, and would have delivered him to the Romans. Just in time he escaped them, put off to sea in a boat. Like most Lawrence stories, this one ends without finishing. "So let the boat carry me. Tomorrow is another...