El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-25
DANCER SELLS
PICTUREFORS $40
Miss Ruth St. Denis Aids
Charity; Presents Spleen
did Dance Carnival.


Miss Ruth st. Denis auctioned two
OF her autographed photographs at
the TeXas Grand Tuesday night and
nelted SSl for the FL Paso Womens
Xlted to appear at the Charity ball
W euneSday night and give q solo
dance, as she had done in Dallas at
similar social function, but being
LHaDIe 10 remain in FL PasO, she de-
clced TO sell two of her photographs
LOT the cause. The first, a picture of
nerSelt in peacock costume, was sold
70 HoDert krakauer on the second BID
LOT 30. The second picture, started
az %, was finally run up to S25 and
scld TO Abe Bargman. 1t was a pic
, lure OIL Miss st, Denis in her Cobra
costume. As an auctiOneer, Miss ST
Dcnls was Irresistible and her witty
good humor
Miss St Denis and company enter
tanned the audience for two and half
hours with their dancing and it was
an very enjoyable. The audience
showed its appreciation of the modern
udnces rather more than it did Tor the
classical affairs, if applause is to be
/ Iaken as a criterion of its likes and
/ dislkes. However the classical dances
received sufficient applause to show
lhat FL PasOans are not insensltive
10 this mode of entertainment The
performance closed with Miss St
4Cenls famous Mystic Dance of the
rive Senses-the Hindu Temple Dance"
the act in which she has appeared in
vaudeville throughout the world. 1t
is accompanied by an elaborate temple
I setting, with real Hindus as attend
ants, the burning of incense and the
weird native music Of the East In
dams. Miss St Denis opened the per-
| Torrance with her famous Cobra dance
, and also presented her famous Egyp-
tlan desert dance, perhaps the most
| beautiful of her offerings; she also
gave her Peacock dance and a Japanese
flower dance, and appeared with Ted
shawn in some modern dances, includ-
! lnE the newest New York sensation,
The Fox Trot." An Egyptian solo
dance was another. feature.
Assisting Miss St Denis, besides her
company Of East Indians, were her
bI other, Rene st. Denis, a very grace
Iu- young man; Mr.. Shawn, Miss Hilda
Beyer and Miss Eva Fontaine. Miss
Boyer is said to be considered by
sculptors as one of the most perfectly
termed young women in America, and
! there were none in the audience to
dispute the claim She is as graceful
as she is pretty and in her dancing with
Mr.. Shawn, who is as graceful as a
bird and almost too handsome for a
I man, she won the audience in a second.
Miss Boyer is of the blond type. Miss
FCntaine is of the opposite type
lithesOme bruqet-and these three in
the classic allegory that followed the
opening act by Miss st. Denis, present
Cd stage picture that was the very
poetry Of grace and motion. Miss
Fcntaine was a strong favorite with
the audience in her South American
solo dance, the Syvillia, and in the
Chinese minuet with Mr.. St. Denis she
I also was a favorite. Miss Boyer gave
graceful presentation of the classic
/ Pipes of Pan" dance, a conception of
1 her own and of Miss st. Denis.
1t was the biggest dancing carnival
that Ell Paso amusement lovers have
seen in a long time and was witnessed
virtually by a crowded and fashionable
vac AZ
rather a remarkable tribute to the per-
formers since two crowded houses had
greeted David Warfield the day be-
fore. G. A. VI.