The Ogden standard. [volume], December 27, 1913, 4 o'clock p.m. City Edition, MAGAZINE SECTION, Image 13

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ijggJ THE OGDEN STANDARD liiiiiil
' OODKN CITY, UTAH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1913. I
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O -fr"3 " XX T 1 1 J frftfSJljw Th. n she went abroad to study.
ClXlvi W- W O -v.-ri:' i..T 'jdMBfgV Ml-- Si Ucnls is much taken with
X ictr - "v ';! Jap " '" dancing. She says It Is
A . - 'irti :P7K?fu' fei'1 lovely She says it is divine.
1X1"? Rtf , irflfii ' 'r Vf'SiKTiJ-1fe N'ow. Ruth St. Denis Is not the
w4-- Vw . ., j ,., j -.J" real name of the dancer. That Is
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fr ES . ' 1-.v7 -jy.-' "v . . ' ' 1 i - . tt?$ PNrmGHp r--- 1 ( enta often do not donate thlr chil
li :y t 'i'.-n with those lovely names they
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If you saw a beautiful woman
lttlng on the floor with her feet
jja crossed and wearing a sad smile
H1 you wouldn't call that dancing.
would you?
It's a long way from the tango,
jj, anyway. and there Is nothing
from South America that looks
like thnL Yet Ruth St. Denis colls
rrjf that dancing
lt Not that Ruth hain't a nimble
I set of toes and feel. Quito the con-
JM trary Ruth St. Denis can dance SO
jA fast that it is difficult to follow her
i J graceful movements, but she Is scv-
eral kinds of a dancer. She can
$ dance in English. Spanish. French.
-Jj Ccrman. Italian. Egyptian. Japan
jjjl ese. Hindu and Sanskrit.
j Further than that she can dance
I" with her toes, her feet, her fingers,
her body and then she can danco
'j. without dancing at all. She calls
that last kind of dancing the lOUl
dance. She learned it in India and
Is now showing Americans how to
dance while sitting on the floor,
f "When I sit motionless, as the
Hindu idol Vlyhu. I am dancing."
nho assert. "The Impression Is
tub mental. I send out what might bo
called vibrations which are felt by
tl the audience. As the Imagination
of the dancer expresses Itself In
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movement, an Impression is made
on the brain, r.nd then the Imag
ination, enriched by the experience
of the movement, Is able to realize
Itself oven when tho dancer re
mains motionless."
All dreadfully involved, but In
Germany Jacques Dalcroze is run
ning a school on these principles.
Tho science Is called eurythmy and
goes back at least as far as Plato,
whose words are quoted to the ef
fect that 'it Is through the phys
ical body that eurythmy the ex
pression of the symmetry hidden
within the soul is awakened into
being and It Is by the 'dance gym
nastics' that reactive harmony of
soul and body is attained."
Miss St. Denis Is going abroad at
her first opportunity to so Mr.
Dalcroze. whose views are strikingly
In accord with her own. He is
quoted as raying: "Many who are
well acquainted with the rhythm of
music, painting, poetry and prose
have yet to realize tho extreme
value of rhythm in life. Music may
still bo the privilege of tho few, but
rhythm will be the Joy of th many.
The different arts will becomo
united by a general fooling for
rhythm which at the same time will
form the ilnk between art and or
dinary life It was tho privilege of
the last century to make full use
of science. It will, we hope, be the
privilege of this century to make
full use of art."
RHYTHM is ABSENCE
OF AIX FRICTION.
Again Dalcroze says rhythm Is
tho absence of friction, mental and
physical. Neurasthenia, he declare?,
la nothing more than a lack of bal
ance between mental and physical
powers, a lack of rhythm, a nervous
strain produced by mental excite
ment when it is denied bodily ex
pression. Ruth St. Denis says wo aro
Just beginning to learn about danc
ing. "Tho world knows less about
dancing today than It knew about
electricity before Benjamin Frank
lin's time," sho says. The poor old
world has to admit sho la telling
tho truth becauso who could dis
pute St. Denis. Not so very long
ago the world thought It knew a
great deal about dancing Dancing
Is as old as the human race. What
the civilized world did not know
about dancing was known to tho
savages.
Down In South America they
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were dancing the tango years ago
and doubtless the Mt Everest Hop,
so popular now In Thibet, will some
day becomo popular at Newport.
Somo one in the world knows
something about dancing and all
tho something! added togothnr
i
make a total sum of knowledge
about tho art, we are prone to be
lieve. But Ruth St. Denis says not.
When one speaks to her of danc
ing she says. "My Art " She Is
the only one perfect In the art.
The rest of tho crowd of porfect
ones arc simply perfect in their
own art.
"But the world nil learn," says
SL Don!?. "My art is the kindred
art of music. It Is the kindred art
of sculpture. It Is the kindred art
of painting and It stands equal to
poetry. These other artti have been
Vk UTH ST. DENIS in irjt
rious poses. The central
pose is the Hindu Soul
Dance.
brought to perfection. Poetry has
been the subject of great thought
for ages. The groatcut minds of the
earth have helped develop poetry.
Homer. Virgil, Shakespeare. Milton
and all the rest have striven to
ward the Ideal In poetry. They have
given their lives to Its development
and have made It perfect.
"The ' ancients have worked long
and hard at sculpture. After tjhe
close Of the middle aces modern
men have striven to perfect sculp
ture and today men arc still tolling
and gaining perfection In sculpture.
Music at first was only an outburst.
It was far from perfect How could
they gain perfection?
"Then came the master minds
and we have attained perfection In
music. Music Is a wonderful art.
So Is painting a wonderful art, but
none the less is dancing."
Dancing is caused by Ruth St.
Denis as the Cinderella of the arts.
Whllo the more favored sisters were
being patted on the head and led
on to greater perfection dancing
has been shoved out In the back
shed and made to look shabby. But
some of theso days the Cinderella
Is going to get a chance to go to
tho king's ball In her true colors.
Then her sinters will have to look
to their laurels, for dancing will do-
mand her rights and If she does not
demand them ho will get them
without demanding.
Miss St. Denis Is another fairy
godmother rescuing the art of danc
ing from the house of neglect. That
Is what sho modestly says and her
press ajrents have not denied It.
-l il Ms OUT I l l IDE V
FROM l. Ki TTI POST! 1 : .
Kuth St. Denis was not always
famous. Sho was not always draw
ing a fortune a week dancing be
fore enormous crowds. The fuct Is
that once upon a time just like in
the story of Inderella she was un
known, unloved anu drawing 121
a week. That was a good many
years ago when she got a Job from
Mr. Belasco as a minor a'-tre.v.
Some weeks Belasco couldn't use
her and she had to remain at her
home In N-w York wondering bow
In the world she was going to live
on nothlmr a week.
Then came the cigarette poster.
An humble artist trying to gTub a
living from the lovers of art In
New York painted a daughter of
Egypt for a poster and sold tho
poster to a manufacturer of cigar
ettes. Small pictures were mado
from the big poster and pasted on
cigarette b'orxCB. I-iter they were
printed right on the box and they
gained great circulation. Looking
at the picture of the Egyptian one
afternoon an Idea struck Ruth St.
Denis right straight between tho
eyes.
"Wow!" said Ruth
In Just about seven weeks she
was drawing $2,000 a week. she
had a press agent all of her own
and was heralded as the newest
dancer and the classiest of them
all. She had gotten the Idea of
dancing from the poster and It whs
x great Idea. Everybody In New
would like to hae. Parents often k
hue some ordinary name ilke I
Smith or .loma or Brown. Somo v
of them have such names as Snacks
or Sihubaeh. Parents are so In
considerate When Kuth found she
was famous or -about to be famous,
she abandoned the name her folks
gave her. It has been so long since P
She used that old name her asso
clal a do not knoir v.-hat her real
nann- is. Sh .speaks, it so seldom
she hardly knows '.he name her-
But what Is the difference any
Bveryone knows ht-r as Miss
-i. I't-niM u-.d that Is all :i st.ige
worn m ffSfltS; Sho wtnts n name
t:, ,t erybody will call her by, Sho
v. inta a name that wlil look well
la ;.rint and one that will bo short
. .:ih to get in th- h id lines:
Now If you hod a name like
Sqhoetfelhelmberger it would be too
long to get in mpSl newspapers. St.
Denis Is O K for headline pur
poses: The man w'ho writes the
headlines In the newspapers will
put it in nine times out of ten.
MJSa St. I'enls does not look
like a dancer. A traveler who
prldM himself on hU ability to
guess the occupation of his com
panic na from their dress and man
netlsms. slzd up the prematurely ,
gi hair and prim figure of Miss
St Qenla and offered to bet monev
that she was "a maiden lady In
some dinky town, teaching school
(lye days ' i week, rending popors on
the suppression of Igirette smok-I.,-
on the sixth dny. and teachlner
a Sunday school class on the eev- j
cnth."
And this was the young woman
fm u New Jersey who furnished
e en Jaded New York with thrills
and Shocked the Rev. Dr. Park
hurst into semi-consciousness.