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...grain, beseeching fertility. Lining the walls on three sides sat 80 interested men and women. Some were young, some were white-haired, most were matronly looking women and burly, oldish men. Fascinated, they began to beat the rhythm with their programs, then one by one they rose, joined the dancer and for 15 minutes stamped their feet, bowed low, bent back, sowed grain...
...dancer was Agnes Boone, onetime performer with Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn's Denishawn Dancers. The rest were dancing masters and mistresses from all over the country who form the American Society of Teachers of Dancing. For 51 years members of the Society have convened annually, usually in Manhattan, to sit in judgment on the dance, to review old dances, see and invent new ones...
...Dancer Boone, traveling in the Far West among 50 tribes on Indian reservations, has studied and gathered much aboriginal dance material. What she exhibited last week she calls the Butterfly Dance, a dance of fecundity from the Klamath tribe of Oregon...
Married. Eleanora Ambrose Maurice, 27, widow and partner of the late Dancer Maurice (Mouvet); to Samuel Katz, 37, potent president of Publix Theatres, of which there are 1,100, including Manhattan's gold-domed Paramount Theatre; in Stamford, Conn. For his bride Cinemagnate Katz is constructing a "city" on a hillside near Centenary, N. Y. It will contain lakes, bridges, swimming pools, 150-car garage, tennis courts, bowling alleys, a house that would cover an entire city block, a separate "hotel" for Katz guests...
Married. David Ludovic George Hopetoun Carnegie, 27, 11th Earl of Northesk, onetime (1923-28) husband of Jessica Brown, Follies dancer; to Miss Betty Vlasto, 22, cousin of Tennis Player Didi Vlasto; in London...