The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-06
PRETTY LORRAINE MISHLER CAPTIVATES
 DANCING BIRMINGHAM WITH HER GRACE
By DOLLY DALP.YMPLn

By DOLLY DALPYMPLn
 Supercilious sponsors for human frailty. vice crusading custodians of other peoples conduct, self elected archangels of militant morality are wont to warn you and me, particu- larly) to go to the ant and consider his steotyped, plodding, routine, hum drum ways, and be wisel
 For such as they the cello cadenzas of the skylarking, grasshopper going la-daneing on his gay fantastic way are merely plfflel 1 They will have none of him.
 To the grim visaged Puritan all the followers of the gay, light-hearted It. tie grasshopper cult are beyond the pale!
 In the melancholy lexicon of their bitter arbitriment there is no such act as-dancing! l But
 Alasl
 The majority these days belong to to the latter crowd. For
 It's dance, dance, dance, day and night, early and late, and young and old join inl Few, indeed, do we find now of the narrow minded kind who look upon dancing as a-sin. From ancient Greece every song, ev- cry poem, every picture of the gods contained at least one suggestion of the shimmering toe turned lightly lheavenwardl From Apollo and Diana, Venus and Mercury, the "graces" and "muses," we have had dancing depicted.
 The ancient Hebrews and Egyptians danced in contrast to the wicked Baby lonians So much for traditional sanction. In view of this example, why should not the world be dance mad now? To those who consider it foolish and silly and sinful, we have but to say: Fist! Tush! Tut Pifflei Pax! As long the world lasts dancing will last and 1t is only now that 1t is really come into its own Lambs In the field are kicking up their festive heels and so is every one else Grass grows and water runs flowers bloom and birdies sing, and the whole world this gay June-time Is a-dancing its way to joy and happiness. Could anything be more beautiful than the sight of undimmed youth, vibrant and pulsating, swaying, turning, twirling, mo- tioning to the rhymthmic grace of the latest dance? If you've seen pretty Lorraine Mishler and her clever partner, Mir. George Rule, | since they've been in Birmingham you know what I mean. They are the personifcation of every | thing that is exquisite and graceful and artistic. Their teamwork is little short of mar 1 velous. l So perfectly do they understand the steps and the variations of the modern dance | that they seem almost as one person when | they glide and slide and beat time to the l tuneful music. 1 Lorraine Misher is the loveliest thing that you've ever set eyes on. | Tall, svelte and stately as a lily, she embodies all the understanding grace of the native born dancer. 1 It's in her blood. | It's in her head. 1 It's in her pretty, slender, tapering feet that she handles like fairy. l. Her big brown eyes and her soft. wavy black hair frame hei pretty face that is expressive of intelligence and appre- citation. and she is charming to talk to as well as lovely to look at Even the little faltering note in her voice is perfectly fascinating and as you sit and pound the questions to her and she 'hesitates'-
 Now. honestly, I didn't mean that as a pun
 Honest to goodness, I didn't
 It just happened.
 And yet
 In these days He who doesn't hes itate' is-1osti"
 Worse and more of it-isnt 1t?
 But
 As I was about to say:
 Miss Lorraine is deliciously lovely, be- cause she's so different.
 She's very young not out of her teens as yet, if you please
 Just sweet, pretty, society bud" (from our neighboring city, Chattanooga, by the way) who declares that she'd "rather dance and make a name for herself than to settle down and get married before she's 20"
 She's very ambitious and means to do something really big!