Word: shawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...rumor ran through Manhattan last week to the effect that Dancers Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn were to be divorced and that Dancer Shawn would desert the Denishawn School for a teaching partnership with Bill Robinson, Negro tap-dancer. To many it seemed an odd arrangement: Dancer Shawn does his leaps and bounds, usually half clad, in an earnest attempt to interpret fundamental moods. Natty little Dancer Robinson keeps his clothes on, is famed for his wide grin, his slick, metronomic way of hoofing up & down a flight of steps, and for being able to run backwards...
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...
Married. Margaret M. Eddy, daughter of famed Evangelist and Y. M. C. A. Leader Sherwood Eddy; and George Kerry Smith, an instructor at the King School, Stamford, Conn.; at Denishawn House (dance school) in Manhattan, where the bride was given in marriage by Dancer Ted Shawn (Mr. Eddy was in England writing a book). Before the ceremony Dancer Ruth St. Denis (Mrs. Shawn) danced a prayer of invocation before an altar of fiery dahlias...
...gratified by the enterprise and alertness here shawn," said the Great Chief. "I hope that other cities will follow the example of Baltimore and Philadelphia next year, so that the United States may be adequately represented at this great fair [largest and oldest in Europe...