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...from the Atlantic rate, under which they had signed on, to the Pacific rate, some $5 a month higher. While the officers talked of arresting the entire crew for mutiny, most of the 441 passengers settled down to await the dispute's outcome. A few voyagers, including onetime Dancer Adele Astaire and her husband Lord Charles Cavendish, started East by land...
RUSSIAN SOMERSAULT - Igor Schwezoff -Harper ($3.50). The head of a ballet school in Amsterdam tells of his life in Russia during the Revolution and after. Son of an English-Russian mother and a German-Russian father, Dancer Schwezoff had to perfect his plies between visits from the police. Written with little art, Russian Somersault won the $5,000 Hoder & Stoughton autobiography prize in England...
...best a mere appendage to real dynamic feeling. Laban theorized down to the smallest detail, studied movements in relation to character and mental attitudes. First to give his ideas concrete expression was his pupil, Mary Wigman, a tense, rawboned woman who was 27 before she decided on a dancer's career. Wigman soon claimed that she could feel herself "as one of the primal things, unable to speak life, only to dance it." To drum & cymbal accompaniment she danced in 1919 before an audience of the sick and neurasthenic at a Swiss Kurhaus. She looked scrawny and underfed...
Martha Graham became a leading Denishawn dancer, a Denishawn teacher. Still she felt frustrated, broke from the California studio to teach at Rochester's Eastman School of Music, left Rochester determined to free-lance her way no matter what the odds. The way at first was vague. She had had no contact with Laban or Wigman. Yet she felt the same urge to escape from pretty dancing. Striving for a vital, spontaneous expression, she took to lunging and prancing, projected a sincerity almost severe. In 1926 with $11 to her name she gambled on her first Manhattan recital. Chronically...
...docket of the French Court of Appeals came the case of U. S. Dancer Joan Warner, "Poetess of Naked Rhythm," who was found guilty of "publicly outraging modesty" by dancing in a respectable Paris restaurant in blue powder and a gossamer cache-sexe (TIME, July 29 et ante). The court reaffirmed Poetess Warner's fine of 50 francs ($3.30), lowered the restaurant owner's fine from 250 to 50 francs. Carefully the judges pointed out that the ruling does not prevent Miss Warner from practicing her art in theatres and music halls...