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Miss St. Denis continued talking about the schools she had already started throughout the country and the work they were doing in them. She and her husband, Ted Shawn, arrange all their own dances and she stated that her 18 minths in the Orient this winter had given them a wealth of material to work on. Returning to dancing and especially modern dancing, she said, "I feel that popular dancing as one sees it today is nothing mere than a complicated form of hugging. It will, however, probably change very soon and return to some more rhythmic form of movement...
...priori. "There has indeed been abroad for a full century the curious notion that folk art, as once the King can do no wrong; that folk art is necessarily good art; that the critic who dares to question folk art commits the unpardonable sin." This is undoubtedly true. Ted Shawn might conceivably do setting-up exercises, claim them as an aboriginal dance, and be hailed has even more of a maestro than...
...colorful costumes for the men in the Dramatic Club's forthcoming production of Sacha Guiltry's "Beranger". For the three leading feminine roles, the services of Miss G. W. Ripley, who makes costumes for many of the foremost companies in the country--among them Pavlowa's and Ted Shawn's ballets, and the Green which Village Follies--have been obtained, while the accomplishment of the costumes for the other ladies in the play has been placed in the more than competent hands of Miss Briggs, a special Boston costumer. By the exactness of the styles for the three periods...
Interrupted by hisses for the villains and applause for the quick-witted young hero, the Arlington Players opened the week with the first performance of "Shawn Rhue", an Irish drama in four acts by William L. Murphy. The ups and downs and the honest, Industrious Donovan family progressed all too obviously; but how little that need detract from real melodrama! A large audience was captured to the last row in the second balcony by the Irish brogue, the flow of Irish wit, the good Irish names, and the triumph of Irish ingenuity. So enthusiastic did it become that numerous suggestions...