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With William Morris' not notoriously intelligible verses Authoress Mannin captions the three sections of her novel, symbolizes the three phases of her heroine's career?summery childhood, cryptic girlhood, mystic womanhood. Linda's simple story, the details of her family's life on Shawn's farm, make a pretty picture to hang on a cottage wall. Three generations back the Shawns had come from Ireland, rented a piece of land near Flaydering, near the North Sea. Andrew, Linda's father, runs the farm as well as his Celtic irresponsibility allows. His wife Ellen, once a schoolmarm...
...first of the Stadium's three nights with the Denishawn Dancers, and the first U. S. performance of Job: A Masque for Dancing, with music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, scenario by Geoffrey Langdon Keynes after the designs of Poet-Artist William Blake, choreography by Dancer Ted Shawn. In eight scenes and an epilog were shown the machinations of Satan (Dancer Shawn) in getting Job (Arthur Moor) to curse God (William Kennedy) for taking from him his family and riches. Though Satan succeeded (as he does not in the Bible story), he was banished by God, driven back to Hell...
...concrete Lewisohn Stadium, hemmed in by ugly apartment houses and the unimpressive buildings of the College of the City of New York. When William Blake made his drawings of the Book of Job, he took the universe in his grasp, peopled it with supermen and angels. Save for Dancer Shawn, operatically devilish as a deep green Satan, the Denishawns did little more than suggest Blake's eloquent figures. Composer Williams' score was politely modern, lacked movement...
Eminent among U. S. dancers, Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn have been married since 1914, are professionally inseparable as the Guitrys, Sothern & Marlowe, or Lunt & Fontanne. Full-lipped, slim, fiftyish, grey-haired since she was 18, Miss St. Denis has been dancing for 25 years - five years longer than her husband who is considerably her junior. Ambitious, intelligent, they are less academic than the late Anna Pavlova, less Dionysian than the late Isadora Duncan. Last week's audience, like many another, found them at their best in straight forward pictorial interpretations : Miss St. Denis in the Salome dance...
Investigation disclosed that the Deni-shawns are not planning to split. What the talk simmered down to was this: Dancers Shawn and Robinson will both teach at a new Three Star Summer School for dancing teachers, which begins June 15 and lasts four weeks. The third star will be Florence Rogge, ballet mistress at Roxy's cinemansion. Leon Leonidov, production director at Roxy's, will give a course in rapid preparation of elaborate stage spectacles, admit his teacher-pupils to Roxy's dress rehearsals...