Word: shawns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...given during the fortnight, the audience of 5,500-near capacity of the temporary tent-was as impeccable and polite as any in Symphony Hall or Carnegie Hall, included such folk as Violinists Efrem Zimbalist, Albert Spalding, Jacques Gordon, Mrs. E. Parmalee (Alta Rockefeller) Prentice, Dancer Ted Shawn, Mrs. Alvan T. Fuller (wife of Massachusetts' onetime Governor), U. S. Ambassador-at-large Norman Hezekiah Davis, Novelist Owen Johnson, Mrs. Edward S. Harkness and many another social column name. Most of them sat in boxes which were shrewdly placed in a double row in the middle of the tent...
...Shawn and his company of male dancers are to appear in Symphony Hall tonight, presenting a variety of solo and ensemble numbers. The group has recently had quite spectacular successes on the West Coast. Another event is the performance of Cesar Frank's choral masterpiece, "The Beatitudes," by the Federal Music Project tonight and tomorrow night at Jordan Hall. This work is rarely given and should be well worth hearing...
Dancer Ted Shawn M.Ed...
...nine young men had been trained by Shawn to help prove his conviction that "dancing is not a sissy art." He set out to form an all-male troupe as soon as the Denishawn chapter was closed. He wanted real men, not half men. So to start clean he left Manhattan, went to the Y. M. C. A. College in Springfield, Mass., where he talked to trackmen, wrestlers, footballers. Dancing, he argued, was originally a male prerogative, forbidden to women. Primitive men have always danced as a natural part of their worship. The young athletes who followed Shawn...
Sophisticated observers regarded the venture as a freakish experiment, pooh-poohed the idea that a troupe could succeed without women to decorate it. But in less than two years Ted Shawn has made a success. With no capital, he took to the road when times were darkest. In 1933-34 he and his dancers visited 115 cities. This season's record was 125, with sufficient profit for the dancers to go this week to London where they have hired His Majesty's Theatre...