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First of them to break away was the mask-faced zealot, Martha Graham, who left a lucrative job with the then-popular Ruth St. Denis company to brood and prance alone in a Manhattan studio. Results of this brooding, Graham's Manhattan concerts in 1926-29, were the first doses of modernist dance Manhattanites had ever taken. Soon, however, two other former Denishawn dancers, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, joined the procession. When famed German Modernist Dancer Mary Wigman visited the U. S. in 1930-31, the U. S. home-grown modernist dance had already taken root. But Wigman...
...Zealot Emerson, whom the Philadelphia County League of Women Voters had summoned for help, had a piece to speak, and he spoke it. One of his pointed paragraphs was directed at Health Director William Cosgrove Hunsicker, 65, homeopath, genitourinary surgeon, onetime State senator: "The present incumbent's qualifications would not permit him to be appointed to any full-time position in any city or rural community in New York State, nor would he meet the requirements of district health officer of New York City, responsible for a city neighborhood of only 2,000 or 3,000 population...
...Nahas Pasha, leader of Egypt's greatest party, the Wafd, lost his job as Premier. Last week, however, he had the laugh on his successor, Mahommed Mahmoud Pasha. Nearly three months ago one of Mahmoud's Greenshirts attempted to shoot Nahas in the street. When the young zealot, Abd El Kadar, was arraigned in court, Nahas instead of demanding the extreme penalty contemptuously asked damages of one piastre (5?). Lest the Wafd make too much capital of this disdain. Premier Mahmoud's Government hastily held Abd El Kadar for criminal trial...
...arrived at Town Hall in 1930. The League, founded by a group of women suffragists, had for 40 years provided a platform for civic reformers, outstanding Americans from William Jennings Bryan to Will Rogers, and music concerts. But George Denny conceived a bigger mission for Town Hall. With a zealot's belief that revival of the old New England town meeting was needed to make democracy work, he began in 1935 to put on a weekly town meeting demonstration in Town Hall for a nation-wide radio audience. Soon a good part of the U. S. population was listening...
...Scene I, a curly-haired youngster (Alexander Kirkland) gives up sweetheart and golf clubs when off-stage voices, quoting scripture, call him to the Church's service. Through 14 subsequent scenes, stern dominies keep this young, progressive zealot from his project of awakening the Church to "the demands of a changing world." They block his plan for a Church dance, they prevent his sheltering a pursued harlot, just as he has concluded that the Church is not all that it should be, his disapproving seniors unfrock him. He is glad...