Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1915 — Pose Plastique Is the Winter’s Fad in Boston [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Pose Plastique Is the Winter’s Fad in Boston

BOSTON. —Eurhythmies, the latest method of dancing through the application of musical rhythm to motion, sponsored by Mrs. Oliver Ames, Sr., Mrs. Larz Anderson, and other leading Boston society women, and approved by

President Emeritus Eliot of Harvard, will be a popular winter divdtsion among Boston society girls. About a dozen debutantes, including several who "came out” this season, nave formed a class and are taking lessons at the school of Miss Marie Ware Laughton. Several other classes are being formed, one of which includes a number of matrons of the smart set. Still another class is made up of athletic and gymnastic professors from Welles*

ley, Smith, and Bryn Mawr, who, when they become proficient, will teach the “pose plastique” to college girls. Learning to pose so that each position assumed registers a desired expression of human emotion,, is one of the first steps toward the acquisition of the deeper significance of eurhythmies. This new psychological method, a» it is frequently termed, now promises to rival in its results even the modern i dances Eurhythmies, it is asgerted, not only satisfies the joys of dancing, but enables the devotee to develop self-expression; f • - —-