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...Lafayette Page of Indiana, mother of Dancer Ruth Page, fell under the Wigman spell in Germany last year, interested other Indianapolis matrons who imported a Wigman teacher, started the first unofficial Wigman school...
...German Dancer Mary Wigman does her athletic prancing and lunging because she feels herself "one with the elemental things, the primal things" (TIME, Jan. 5). But the reason for her large following lies in the fact that the gymnastics she teaches are simple, far easier to master than formal dance steps. There are thousands of Wigman dancers in Germany. The cult is growing fast in the U. S. among women who find the exercises exhilarating to mind and body. Still another reason for Wigman dancing was advanced last week in Manhattan by Dancer Erna Wassel, pupil of Dancer Wigman...
Died. Mary Desti, 59, friend and biographer of the late great Dancer Isadora Duncan, mother of Playwright Preston Sturges (Strictly Dishonorable) who is the son of her first husband, Solomon Sturges of Chicago (she divorced him, married Capt. Howard Perch, from whom she later separated); of superabundance of white corpuscles in the blood, a rare disease which she contracted soon after the death of Dancer Duncan in Nice in 1927; in Manhattan...
...Fatigay's horror he discovered he was married to a chimpanzee! The parson would do nothing about it. Mr. Fatigay rushed off to go to the dogs; Amy showed herself in true and unattractive colors; Emily, despairing but practical, went on the stage as a dancer. Mr. Fatigay dropped lower and lower; Emily made a fortune. One day they met again, and Emily was able to explain everything, for in the meantime she had learned to typewrite. A chastened, wiser but still admirably simple Mr. Fatigay returned to Africa with his monkey bride...
Dour, red-haired Director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (real name Plumpe-murnau) was born in 1889, educated at Heidelberg and Berlin University. He got Max Reinhardt to give him a part in The Miracle. In 1921 he started to make movies in Berlin?The Hunchback & The Dancer, The Janus' Head, Nosferatu. In 1925 he surprised the world with The Last Laugh, about a doorman in a big hotel, by many considered the best silent cinema ever filmed. A year later he made Faust, then went to Hollywood where he directed Janet Gaynor in Sunrise and Four Devils...