The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-15
INDIAN DANCE GIVEN
AT PETE FOR BLIND
Tribal Rites of Arizona H0pis
Contrasted With the
Steps Of To-day.
PLACE FOUND FOR MINUET
Mrs. Glynn and Mayor Mitchell
Take Part in Hotel
AstOr Affair.

cess last night In the "Fete Terpsichori-
enne" given In the ballroom OF the Hotel
Astor for the benefit OF the New York
Association for the Blind. For several
seasons entertainments organiztd by MISS
Holt have been given for the same object
and always following some fad OF the day.
As dancing Is The popular thing at tho
moment, Miss Holt In her latest tnort
selected something suggestive OF the evo-
luton of dancing In America from ths
primitive tribal rites OF tho Hopi Indians
to the modern dances.
Before the dance Miss Holt entertained
at dinner In her home. ~ East Seventy
eighth street. Mayor Mitchell and Mrs.
Mitchell. Mrs. Martin H. Glynn, wife
of the Governor: Mr.. and Mrs.
william Church Osborn and others
later aided her In receiving. There
was no effort toward decoration in the
ballroom except for national. state and
city flags, which were draped from the
boxes OF the grand tier. Many or the
guests wore fancy dress costumes and the
guests in the boxes and on the ballroom
floor presented a particularly brilliant APP
pearance.
The dance programme did not bec!n
until II o'clock and the first number was
the Hopi Indian snake dance. This was
n faithful representation OF the dance as
seen by Mrs. Jean Dwight Franklin and
her son. Dwight Franklin. in Arizona last
were reproduced from originals ard some
OF them were brought from Arizona The
Indians circled about the kisi, or clunp
of bushes where were concealed the
snakes tpapier machc). Holding them
In their mouths after having sprinkled
them with sacred corn meal. the dancers
clrcled about with jumps and starts to an
accompaniment OF monotonous sort or
chant and the sound OF rattles.
Those who participated In this dance
were aided in learning 1t by the motion
pictures OF the American Museum or Ma
tural History. The dance were Mrs
Jean Dwight Franklin. Miss Augusta
Lloyd. Dwigh, Franklin. Howard Nc
Cormlck. Arundel Nichols. Charles F.
Chapman. Enos Comstock. Thomas Larre-
more. George Mills, Robert Ingersoll
Brown. Hibbard Kline. George Mable,
Ellsworth Kolb. John Perry, William w.
Irwin. c. William Beebe. Alfred Gentzch.
Howard Smith. Walter Paving and Id
ward De Witt.
Next came the stately m!nuet OF Colonial
days. Miss Angelica Schuyler Church In
this dance wore a gown which belonged
20 her Observation-Disclosures who
danced with Washington and Lafayette.
| Others in the minuet were Mrs. John Hore
| Auerbach, Mrs. John a. Dix Mrs stuart
Duncan. Mrs. James Il. Miller. -irs.
Charles \. Van Rensselaer,. Miss Eva
Ingersoll Brown. Miss Constance Buel.
Miss Kissei, John A. Dix. Stuart Dunc\n.
James T.. Miller. Robert Mckee. Gerald
/ Ona;ivia. Charles NJ. Post. Louis Tread
/ well and w MacSsili Rodew Id.
/ A crinoline lancers, such as might have
/ been danced in Washington Just after
/ the close OF the civil war. followed. The
women all wore the elaborate furbelows
/ of that period as well as huge crinolines.
The men were costumed officers OF the
Northern and Southern armies. Those
F Nra Aahfpy DaNafar
Mrs Halliburton Fales. Jr.. Mrs. Lyle
Evans Mahan, Mrs. G. Wheaton Vaughan,
Miss Gladys Endicott, Miss Louise FIRTH.
Miss Abby Morrison, Miss Caroline Weir,
Charles :. Butler. David II. Crockett. {.
1 Percival Detsch, Francis II. kinnlcuu.
Nicholas +. Lenssen. Lyle Evans Mahan,
Ernest II. Osborne and Henry Morgan
Post
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle gave an
exhibition of the maxine, hesitation waltz.
tango and some new steps. General dane
/ ing then followed
on the floor committee were J. Henry
| Alexandra Jr. Vivian palmieri. C. Brettc
| Glaenzer. Seth Il. French Theron r.
Strong. Chalmers Wood. Jr.. Austen II.
| Fox. Gano Dunn, a. Lawrence Hopkins
Paul Jaccaci. Frederick n. Wooley. Harold
| Tappln, Lawrence Durant, Alfred ELY.
Jr., T.. Gilbert Schermerhorn. w, =. Gros-
! beck Fowler. George Ftatherstone. u.
/ w hFftn 'FCuudrU, t'rr Np'A's' SA'i' IN
| Pryor. Eckford c. Dekay, Henry Bart
! lett Simpson. Duncan O. Harris. j. Prem
lice kellogg. Joseph Rowland Hunt,
/ A. ID. u. Pratt. Henry Holt. Jr.. Rache
/ Brown, StuyVcsant Fish. Jr. Theodore \.
| Steinway, Walbridge : Taft. Walter W.
! Stokes Lewis a.. Morris. T.. Vail Steh-
bins. Seymour Johnson. Kenneth Board
man aud William Bdyliss, Jr,
| Among the box holders were Mr.. and
Mrs H. Fulton Cutting. Mr.. and Mrs,
! William H. Bliss. Philip Van Rensselaer,
Van Wyck. Mr.. and Mrs. John T., Parsons,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward : darkness. Arthur
williams. Mr, and Mrs. Paul Warburg,
| Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Il. choate, Miss
Annie Burr Jennings Mr.. and Mrs. 1o-
seph :. Auerbach. Mr.. and Mrs Russell
Wcllman Moore. Mr., and Mrs. r. a. c.
| Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Cherries G. Stillman.
Mr. and Mrs. George T. Turnure. Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas w. Lamont, Mr. ana Mrs,
Henry FaEhed Osborn. Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry :. Brinsmade and Clarence IL,
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