Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 92, Number 82, 6 April 1922 — Page 9

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, 1ND., THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1922.

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ONE OF CHICAGO'S 7 HORSE-CAB DRIVERS KEEPS UP COURAGE By Associated PressJ CHICAGO. April 6. Repeating a . copy-book maxim to keep his courage up, Edward Budd, the only horse-cab driver left on the south side and one of the l t seven in the city, remains on duty despite the motor competition which he says la starving the old-fashioned cabby out of existence and will soon make him a memory. , "Five years ago there were about 500 of us, and plenty of work for all," he remarked as he waited for customers. "No, I am lucky if I make $5 a week, and sometimes two weeks pass without bringing me a -nickel, though I'm on watch from earlv In th after

noon unUl 2 or 3 o'clock In the morning. "When I get discouraged, though, I remember a saying I learned at school, 'Preserverance overcomes every obstacle.' I say that over to myself sometimes, and then I think of school days in Hampshire, when I saw her majesty, the queen. We children stood on a bench as she passed, and her majesty stopped and pinned a white rose on my lapel. I'll never forget

mat. "I'd quit driving if I could do anything else, but I froze my feet twentyodd years ago In a storm that tied up all the trains. I was out all night driving people home who would have frozen to death if I'd stayed in and taken care of myself. Now those same people would pass me by and take a taxicab." Mr. Budd was a coachman for a family of means in England before he came to America 40 years ago, and has been a cab-driver in Chicago ever Eince.

A New Home for the Ballet By FREDERIC J. HASKIN

FERRY FARMERS TO DISCUSS G9-0 FIRM

ECONOMY, Ind., April 6 Farmers of

J-Trry township will meet in the Methodist church at Economy Friday night to discuss the co-operative livestock commission firm at Indianapolis. Tho

plan of the company will be explained by County Agent J. L. Dolan. v Fertilizer orders also will be taken at the meeting. The women of the community will hold a special , meeting at the same time as the men. holding a separate session, with an address by Miss Herman on "Dress Forms," at which Mis 3 Stella Harman, county director of 0.0mestic science instruction, will tell of the uses and manufacture of homo made dress forms.

JACK SON BURG MEETING JACKSONBURG. Ind., April 6. A special meeting of Harrison township farmers will be held in Jacksonburg Thursday night, at which J. E. Scholl will talk on the United States Grain Growers' corporation.

WASHINGTON, April 6. Is American ballet to be the next development in the art of the dance? Paul Tchernikoff, former dancer with Pavlowa and now ballet master of the Washington Opera company. Bays that the most promising progress in the art of ballet is being made In this country. France, Italy and Russia have had their turns at being the center of the dancing stage, Mr. Tchemikoff poiit3 out. Jt was in France that the ballet was fixed into its conventional form almost four centuries ago when Louis XIV was patron of the dance. Fo: eorne years this king and more supple members of his court took part in elaborate ballets presented at Versailles, and finally this dancing monarch established a royal academy of the dance to promote his- favorite art.

Dancers still describe their steps by the terms fixed upon about this time. Given a list of such terms as glise". assemble', ronde de jambe,' arabesque, reverence, ballet dancers In different countries would build practically the same dance. Dramas done In pantomime and dance, performed according to th-3

French standard of what should be good and bad form in ballet, gained popularity throughout Europe, and it

was not until a few decades ago that

the art was very much changed.

This time Russia was the innovator Russian dancers took the conventional technique of the French ballet for a basis and began to do radical and beautiful things. They went out of the Russian schools and astonished their audiences with great variety in what was supposed to be a restricted form of the dance. The Russian influence has been so strong that we have almost forgotten that a billowy, tarletan skirt was once the stock costume of a ballerina. Almost any kind of a dance Indian, Greek, Oriental, Gypsy, pastorale i3 material for the modern ballet dancer. The traditions of the dance are not lost, however. There is a difference, for example, between the Greek dance which an inspirational dancer might create and the Greek dance of

a ballerina. She builds her interpretation on a foundation of technique positions of feet and hands which have been found beautiful. The rythmic, or nature dancer finds such a founda

tion hampering to the freedom of tho dance. Her work is less restrained, but ballet devotees hold that it is apt to be less artistic, since the dancer's emotions and ectasy may not always lead her to take the most pleasing poses. The Ballet Russianized. Russia broadened the horizon of the ballet. But now it almost seems as if Russia, as a country, is beginning to peter out in its dance offerings, due partly at least to unsettled Russian affairs. The well known Russian dancers are scattered. We are told that Mordkln is conducting a ballet in Moscow under the protection of the government there, but very littl$ is heard of his work. Nijinsky remains an uncertain quanity. One re

port has It that he is dead, -white another says that he has recoverod from his attack of insanity and is new conducting a ballet school in Switzerland. Other members of the Russian bal let are in this country dancing, producing and teaching. Still others ara working abroad in cubist like productions which are attracting attention as a novelty. Straight lines are a feature of these ballets. Stiffness of costume is achieved by such devices as padding the shoulders with wood. Heads of wood built up in cubist liko squares are sometimes worn. The effect is heightened by geometric riots of color for costumes and settings. Music is of the futuristic type at its best reminiscent of Debussey a trifle off key; at its worst a capable Imita

tion of the baby maltreating the tld family piano. In this futuristic atmosphere the dancers create bizarre compositions. It is the latest phase of the Russian ballet. Mr. Tchemikoff believes that it is a step to the side rather than an advance.

"America now has a chance to bo

the center of the stage, bo far as ballet

is concerned," Mr. Tchemikoff ex

plains. "That so many of the Russians are in this country working In different cities proves that the American people are interested In the art.

"Whether America can add some

thing to the ballet, as Russia did, remains to be seen. It is not so easy

to evolve anything racially characteristic out of modem America because of the melting pot atmosphere. There are possibilities in the Indian dancinf,, however, and nego forms are an- almost untouched field. The cake walk and shuffling steps and mannerisms

of the negro dances, adapted for ballet, with suitable music and settings, would be very interesting. "There are American institutions, too, that offer dance material. Few people would think of a newspaper cartoon as the germ of a ballet, yet Adolph Bolm is doing a ballet with specially written music, based on a newspaper comic character called Krazy Kat." .- But whether America adds any of its personality to the ballet or not, most of the important ballet work of the near future will be done here, Mr

Tchemikoff believes. Ballet is featured in operas, spectacular stage pro ductions, vaudeville programs, and recitals. Ballet is popular, and yet. strangely enough, people know very little of its history or technique. Mr. Tchernikcff tells of a series of recitals given by himself and several other dancers which were accompanied by lectures on the history of ballet and demonstrations of the exercises and positions on which ballet dances are built. To most of the audience these exercises were the novelty of the program. Popular Fallacies. There is a great deal of misunderstanding in this country regarding the ballet, Mr Tchemikoff finds. "For instance," he says, "there 13 a

popular belief that a dancer must begin as a small child and spend years doing nothing but exercises. This idea discourages many aspirants to balk who feel that they cannot enter the work because they missed this early training. Pavlowa did not begin to study dancing, until she was about 11 years old, and even then she studied a number of other subjects at tne school which she attended. "Years of work do not necessarily make a great dancer.- Many a balleina has worked as hard and as long as Pavlowa without achieving prominence because she lacked the rare combination of a strong constitution, a body suited in build for ballet work, personality, finished technique, and a gift for pantomime. V Lacking any of these qualities a dancef may just miss being a star. Yet the idea persists that the main requisite for a successful career as a dancer is to start training as a child of three. "Another misconception regarding ballet is that a dancer must be a mcfrstrosity of muscle. We know now

that there is such a thing as overtraining. The French ballet dancers used to give unnecessary attention to exercises that overdeveloped certain muscles. The bend of the knee called a plie would be practiced by a ballet dancer four times in each of the five positions of the feet, alternating the right end left foot, or forty times in all. That would develop the knee

muscles so that they were not beav.tiful. and yet there was no particular benefit derived from practicing this simple bend, of the knee 'so strenuously. "Both the muscular back, arm and leg, and the normal appearing body are seen on the stage today. The dancer of great muscle may be a good technician, but not necessarily to." - Such fallacies about the ballet haa become deeply rooted, Mr. TchernikofT eays, because so little has, been seen of the art in this country. Until re

cently, ballet in the United States was a familiar spectacle mainly in Nov York and Chicago where the big opera companies maintain their corps of dancers. Other cities saw exhiibtions only semi-occasionally. But now, with the development of community opera and with ballet schools springing up over the country, we have the prospect of ballet as a popular American art. '

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CATTLE AT EPILEPTIC VILLAGE' ARE TESTED

- NEWCASTLE, Ind., April 6. Cattle of the herd of the State Epileptic village were tested for tuberculosis by Dr. Alexander Wednesday. This is practically the last herd remaining in the county plan of T. B. eradication by which state and county co-operated with herd owners to establish clean herds in Henry county. Any individual cattle that remain to be tested in the various townships will be treated later, it is stated. The work of the last few days is a continuation of the work that was Interrupted last winter when a county wide T. B. testing plan had been arranged by the county agent and the farm bureau.

HOLLANSBURG. Ohio Mr. and Mrs. Sater Horn, of Richmond, . Ind , called on Grandma Chenoweth and Mrs. Ethel Reid and son. Richard, Sunday afternoon., . . .Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Rhodes spent Sunday with Mrs. Carl F. Baker.. . . .Miss Mary Williams, Marie Harris, Roma Simpson. Amon Richards, Harry Downing. Henry Miller,

Jim Owens and Robert Thoma3 spent i Sunday evening with Virena and Do-!

othy Slick Mr. and Mrs.' Emmot Baker and children, of near Whitewater, spent Sunday here with Mrs. Jane Coppock Mr.- and Mrs. Orville Baker, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Spencer. Mary Lowdenslager and Mrs. Pearl Petry spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Petry..-.. .Mr. tnd Mrs Will Lamb of Richmond, Gertrude Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Thomas, Harry Aron and Lowell Downing were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. E. E Whiteman Clarence Hinshaw and family, from Weaver's Station, Theodore Thurston and family, of Union City, Anna Miller, of Troy, and Mr. and Ms. John Swanton, of Richmond, Ivan Thurston and family, of Williamsburg, and Mont1 Moore and family, Richmond, were guests of Mr. and

Mrs. L. C. Thurston, Sunday Mr. and Mrs. N. R. Clear and Pearl Hariman, of Richmond, called on Mrs. Mary Chenoweth and Mrs. Ethel Reid and son, Richard, Monday.. . . tMr. and Mrs. Riley Mikesell spent Monday at

Winchester.. ; Mrs. Ben Richards, Jessie Simpson and daughter, Roma, Mrs. Viola Richars, Irene Armacost. Roy Sink and mother and Mr. and Mrs. J.

G. Norris were Richmond visitors cn Monday... Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Woif of Richmond, spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. 'and Ms. John -Wolf... . .Mrs. Little and Ethel Williams spent Monday afternoon with C. F. Baker. ....Miss Virena Slick is spending a few weeks in Franklin, Ohio Miss Norma Chenoweth spent Sunday with

Mr. and Mrs. Vera Chenoweth.. .Norma Wolfal called on Alice Rife Monday Mary Williams and Amond Richards spent Sunday, with Mr. and Mrs. Descan Richard.. .Ida Piatt entertained Friday evening, the following guests: Misses Dorothy Williams, Donna Ireian, Mary and Christine Morgan, Irma Spencer, Susan Billmp.ii, Martha Albright, Norma Wolfal, Alice Rife, Pearl Irelp.n And Viola Richards. Mae Wolfal spent Tuesday eve

ning wiah Mrs. Sara Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Rife, Rosa Caskey, Mrs. James Caskey and Lilla Mikesell called on Otto Jenning and family Monday Hrs. Viola Richards spent

Monday evening with Mrs. Will Moore, j .... Ruth Caskey entertained Saturday evening the following guests: Mr and Mrs. Ray Wright, Mr. and Mr. Carl Moore, Rosa Caskey, Lillian Cox, Nola Teaford and Pheba Piatt i Luella Timmons spent Monday evening with Anna Beteley Mr. and Mrs. Herman Horn and son spent Sunday with Mrs. Lida Richards Mar Morgan, Ida Piatt and Edris Chenoweth spent, Saturday with Dorothy Slick.. ...Mr. and Mrs. Sam Caskey and Chalmer Caskey and family spent Sunday at Palesaine with Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Clark Mr. and Mrs. Orviile

Baker and daughter spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Norris Mr. and Mrs. Jim Dill of Richmond, spent Sunday with Mrs. Susan Green Mrs. Guy Spencer spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Spencer Mis3 Ella Woods spent Monday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Stapelton. Miss Ida Piatt called on Miss Edna Davis -Monday, i.. Clem Peden spent Sunday with Mrs. Rilev Mikesell Ralpff Piatt spent Sunday at Hollansburg Mr. and Mrs. Ora Chenoweth called on Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Chenoweth Sunday Lu Emma Chenoweth returned home after a few month's visit with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chenoweth, at Finley.

LEGION SHOW RACE FEELING

THING UNKNOWN; HONOR NEGRO

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 6.-

That race feeling is a thing apart with them is shown by the action of the

several San Francisco, Cal., American

Legion posts In turning out almost en masse for the funeral of Col. Charles Young, one of the few negroes to graduate from West Point.

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y: -PIG CLUB MEMBERS INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. April . 6. '

Prizes to the number of 25, and

amounting to J275 are'offered Indiana boys and girls who enter Duroc Jersey pig clubs, according to announcement made by the pig club committee of the state Duroc Jersey breeders' association. For pigs shown at the state fair, 17 prizes amounting to $200 are offered, and eight nrizes of $75 are offered for record books. All members of the Wayne county or other countV pig clubs are usually eligible to the state contest, the county clubs conforming to state requirements. State prizes were won by Wayne county boys two years ago and last year. Entry sheets for the state club may be secured from G. G. Carter, of Fairmount.

OWNERSHIP OF DOGS IS CLASSED AS "LUXURY? (Brr Associated Press) BERLIN, April 6. Ownership of two or more dogs Is classed as "luxury" here and extra heavy taxes are imposed under a new schedule. It Is estimated that the owners of 140,000 dogs in Berlin must pay the government 50,000 marks for licenses.

PLACE JAPANESE GOLD FISH CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 6. Several hundred gold fish of rare Japanese varieties have been placed in a pond at the Cincinnati Zoo.

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