Word: dunham
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...terpsichorean rout, rumbaing, impersonating Inca and Martinique maids, flaunting a big cigar in her mouth as a West Indian on an excursion, shimmying in a Florida barrel house, cakewalking as "de Tah Baby" in a ballet on Bre'r Rabbit. This live-wire dancer was Katherine Dunham, young Chicagoan, starting a series of Manhattan recitals with the best Negro dance group yet assembled...
...University of Chicago, decade ago, Katherine Dunham majored in anthropology, with her eye on the dance as a primitive social manifestation. On the side she taught dancing, formed dance groups. In 1936 Miss Dunham persuaded the Rosenwald Foundation to send her to the West Indies to study the dances of Jamaica, Haiti, Martinique, Trinidad. Un like most anthropologists, Miss Dunham could break down the shyness of her subjects by cutting expert capers. Awed Haitians were sure she had "a piece" of their native god. Conversing in English and French patois, she picked up many a trick step, including...
...Walter Ranson, professor of Neurology and director of the Neurological Research Institute at Northwestern University since 1928, has been appointed Edward K. Dunham Lecture at the Medical School for the current academic year, the University announced today...
...Dunham Lectureship is intended to "bind closer the bonds of fellowship and understanding between students and investigators in this and foreign countries." The lecturers are appointed annually, and are drawn from among the leaders of medical research by a committee at the Medical School...
...Onyx Club has closed and it looks like for good. . . . Sonny Dunham of Casa Loma fame, starting another band again. . . . Not content with raising general hell with the Metropolitan Opera and its "great gold curtain," blind pianist Alee Templeton has just developed a fifteen tone scale. The only instrument he can find which it will work on is an old zither, so unfortunately his invention is a bit limited...