New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-12-07
In GARB OF GREECE
ChW Air Fails to Dim Their
Enthusiasm.
IBy Telegraph TO The Tribune ]

philadelphia Dec. s.-Among the passen-
gers landed by the steamer Friesland to-day
were three who attracted much attention.
Their limbs were barred TO the chill winds
as they stepped down the gangplank. their
costumes being replicas of the Greek %
Biblical times The trio were Raymond
Duncan. his wife. and their son Menalkas.
Mr.. Duncan is brother of Issdora Dun
can, the dancer, and he Gid not seem TO
mind the nippy air of Philadelphia as he
mingled with the ordinary passengers wear
ing trousers ard frocks as they looked after
their luggage.
For the last seven years Mr.. Duncan has
lived in Greece to study the music and
rhythm of the ancients. II was while
dwelling on the island of Leucada, from
which mythology says the unhappy Sappho
jumped into the sea, that he met the pres
ent Mrs. Duncan. As Penelope Sikelianos
she was kindred spirit of the American.
for Mr.. Duncan was born in California. and
they were married
The group looked like a section Of an old
Greek frieze as they assembled about the
growing pile of bags. boxes and bundles
which constituted the luggage it was
piled on the wharf. With them was Miss
Eleni sikeianos, of the Royal Theatre OF
Miss Sikelianos apparently does not be-
lieve In the garb of the ancient shepherds.
for she wore a becoming fur coat. with a
brown velvet turban end brown broad
cloth gown. Silk stockings to match the
skirt encased her ankles and low dancing
pumps graced her feet.
Like her husband. Mrs. Duncan wore
nothing below the ankles except the san
dat ufh haf
great toes And with those toes all the
other toes were nicely done in pink by the
weather. loose tunic hung from her
shoulders and a shawl OF olive green hue
was wrapped about her waist and then
tossed over the left shoulder.
Mr.. Duncan has kept pace with the times
in the seven years of his sojourn abroad
and acted as his own press agent i'm the
distribution OF modest literature having to
do with his fame and his purposes. One
of the modest documents he handed out
gives in cncumstantial detail lot of in
formation about him and his discoveries
which he thinks are destined TO revolution
ize the musical and art world. The docu-
ment says so. thus:
After revolutionizing dancing and bring
of the most important artistic events of
the last decade IN all Of the large cities
and countries of Europe-from the opera
house of Wagner at Beyreuth to the An
eient Theatre of the Acropolis at Athens
and afterward. after making a reconstruc-
ton of the Ancient Greek system of
rhythmic gymnastics. Mr.. Duncan has Just
astounded the scientific and musical circles
or Europe with great musical discovery
that Will revolutionize the sciences of
ethnolosy and physiology and make a great
renaissance of music an art.
Mr.. Duncan is perhaps one of the most
out-of-the-ordinary men of the present
day. lie not only always wears the an
Gent Greek dress, but he spins and weaves
II himself, makes his own sandals, pottery
knives. is a finished painter, prints, sets
and engraves his own books and makes
his own musical Instruments, furniture and
everything else he has need Of
lie is married to a Greek lady of Leu
cada, Ionian Islands, who is even more
remarkable a person She not only en-
cages in all of these different occupations.
but is a great musical genius and has a
voice of harmonic and rhythmic quality
that has never vet been heard in America.
They have little boy, four years old. OF
not only great beauty but extraordinary
Intelligence. and VINO. il is unnecessary TO
state. has looms. printing press. tools. etc.
with which TO initiate in play the occupa-
tiOns of his parents