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HOW PAvLOwA TRAINS.
The Way to Keep In Fern "a
Dance.

Since Anna Pavlowa began her ex-
tended engagement at the Hippodrome
many have written her asking the
question, "How do you train?" and
since she has established the free
ballet school at the big playhouse In
terest in her method Of developing
suppleness and grace has been revived
again. SO she answers the question
here in her own way:
Il used to be much surprised when
people asked questions like that: How
do you '.train' for your dancing?'
"'vvhat Is your secret?' Now I am a
little amused. My secret. you see. Is
that there is no secret al all In dane
ing. My chief rule Is not to bother
about rules at all.
81 will tell you how I spend my day,
II you wish.
Here you are, then. I rise al nine.
] have almost nothing to eat or drink
q little coffee, perhaps-until Vol l
rest every afternoon for an hour and
a half, ana 1 spend about an hour ia
preparing for the stage. I dine at six.
after which l eat nothing until my
dancing Is owe
II eat what | like. That may sound
rather daring - almost wilful. You
| probably had the idea that q dancer
had TO diet herself terribly, But Il 10
merely q matter Of taste. As II hap
pens, l like fairly simple food. though
I am by no mea a Spartan. II I did
really yearn for things which were
indigestihlc- well, am afraid ! should
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great crowds OF people. ia draw that
wondrous response with which at times
they reward those who please them.
And II you are dancing with your heart
If you are living your d~ances-you
cannot model your life on a rigid plan.
You must live a real life. with Its ups
and downs. Its excitements and some
times its sorrows. Even your disap.
polntment must be worked into your
dancing. like dark threads in a gny
embroidery, Al artist who lives the
simple life Is never very brilliant. Even
my daily exercises do not matter. They
are not essentials. For dancing 10
something you lose. But
when you art %rehsarsing . dance you
see. oh, 50 many ways Of improving
yOu can add 10 many tiny touches to
your work-thst by and by you will
find you have invented . new dance al.
together.
Il do not sven NY down rules for my
pupils. When / dance before them II
In not that they may copy me-. I do
not want them to begin their careers
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81 have given you my rules Of diet
and exercise. and now you may Just
forget all about them. 1t IL not In
these that the secret OF my dancing
lies. They help: SO do the scenery. the
arrangement Of the lights. the costume
l wear. But they cannot make dane
ing.
Il have not even any rules for you.
II you ask most people how TO get on
they will say Work. I too warn you
that you must work II you wish to sue
coed as n dancer. But work you never
so hard you will not make yourself q
dancer by, that alone. You may culti-
vate a technique that one has only to
see to admire. But you will leave your
people cold unless you dance with your
heart. 1t needs something more-a sa-
cred fire, l would almost say-to touch
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EoN Enrol. acrosssso dance,

T EON Enrol. acrvNat3o dancer
Of The Century Girl" to
whom the managsmsnt credits
the staging q four Of the productions
most successful ana artistic numbers.
IL one Of ths-most versatile and accom-
plishsd q the yiunsse gsnsration Of
actors Ausesaltan born ana bred, Err
rol's thsat3cal career began IN Sydney
willis . boy. While nis family had
never b any Way bssn associated with
the stags. thsS were al musical to q
high asgrss. The elder Enrol could
play q nalf dossn kinds Of instrument.
and theugA his tour sons and two
Aaushtsss never rsosivsd any formal
mustcal training they each inherited
their fathers natural gtft for music.
30 too Aid they inhsrit their fathers
proves for athletics and for feats Of
strength and endurance.
When he was 10 months old. youne
Leon was plunged In the bathtub by
his father and straightway taught tho
FIRST principles of swimming At :
.ea,s Oh y no W. soIe 70 SWIM creu,
i'ao'y .ssins' cnnoren o. ~
years OF ~, mo nc was
a"a.ueo . so'a meoei uy 'he oyo"ey
N'nIe.ic H's''on - .he ~,"ner OF
youngest OF his competitors wa II
years old and tho oldest II.
no iear"eu 70 oAhco quito - hatu-
ny a ; no hao earneo 10 swimyacro-
"~uc oahcins makins q speciai ap-
pea' 70 M" AZ 10 no w
rnousn 70 securo IMAM part WIN
rau, Asrc"etu. tne FAMOUS psnto'
,ni"'s'.3nen touring Austraia. WINE
nIs nseSement Win Martihetti orig
many cahed tor Errois serv'ce niy
~ roush aho tum' , oahcins' ne 700
auvan.ase OF hn Opportunity 10 learn
wnst nc coun rom tne master panto'
'h'Hlis'' Win the result that In q rev
months ume ne was entru'ted Win
Ssr.s recurring cohs'derao'e ski" ana
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have TO conquer my yeaming. for I
must keep healthy.
As TO exercise. my dancing itself
gives me enough Of that. Remember,
the dancing which the public sees does
o represent all my days work by
any Even IL you include my
private engagements. there 10 still .
lot more that has to be done in q day.
l must rehearse my dances and evolve
ideas for new ines. And then J have
nv pupils. I dance to them toe.
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ON STAGES,

MAJESTIC - The Majestic
Theatre, which will be dark this
week, will reopen on Christmas
afternoon with Richard Walton
Tully's 1.-THE Flame" Then will
follow Lima Abarbanell in Flora
Bella" with the original company,
beginning with the special NATL
nee New Years Day. For the
week beginning January 8 "Alone
at Last" the Viennese operetta,
Is announced, with Forrest Hun
and FRITZ Won Busing.
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Mr. TYLER TALKS SHOP.

And Does IL. MoPeovaf, Very In.
structive1y.
The change made In the. end
ing, Of Under Sentence" q change
made nearly two weeks after the
launching of that piece. makes peril
ncnt q recent remark OF George G.
Tyler. whose activities Al a producer
have embraced the staging Of nearly
200 plays in the last twenty years.
Nothing 10 more certain to cause
an audience to 'yawn and lose inter
est" said he. than bringing the cur
tain down on a tame situation. Each
act Of Q play should end with q sus-
gestion Of suspense. with q tense dra-
matte situation or with q striking
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a a the
z OHDE RV 90 q.

having happened! This. OF course, does
not prove that it never did happcr-stili
less than il never will. But ii does make
II. TO say the least, highly improbable
that such a Erucsomc calamity ever 0c.
Cured
Oddly enough, the only apparent in
stances of any such 'revcTsionS occur
ring that could be discovered by the Com
mission were the appearance III The family
group of two muiattOs or OF QuadrOon
and mulatto Of very dark. or even coal
black ncgroid children, much darker and
more negro-lkc than either of their par
ents. This is not at all uncommon. and
tho writer has found several instances OF
il in our own Southern States, but. OF
course il is easily explained by the fact
that both parents being muattoS Lad each
two factors OF black. so that il was posi-
bic for any child by nhcriting all the
hlackncss OF both parents TO be born
black.
Mathematical illustrations arc not
always illuminativc. but, perhaps, a brief
ariihmctical statement may make the
matter little clearer. Between a black
parent and Il white parent there arc Of
course. four possible combinations OF
color in the offspring: White.whitc.
hack-hlack. black White and whitc-biaCk
Now, applying this formula 10 tho mating
OF two muattos. We might have one white
white, which would mean n light-colored
child. inheriting all the white blood OF
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By Dr.. Woods Hutchinson
The Worlds Foremost Physlcian.Author.

T HE theatre IS one of the most
powerful influences in the build
ing up OF morality. Upon its stage
ere presented in vivid colors and high
relief tho problems which are puzzling
us in our daily life.
IL IL therefore n matter of great in
torest and importance when the theatre
presents ably and graphically a gripping
play which deals with n live problem in
racial morality But il Will sometimes
happen that while presenting IA real
moral problem or struggle between
higher and lower sanctions OF conduct,
instead OF holding the mirror up 10
nature. play presents the reflection OF
some purely imaginary or legendary
event.
An interesting illustration is a play
now running with much interest and
success which presents with great
artistic ability and skill tho tragic prob
lem o! man apparently white. but with
slight and perhaps questionable strain
OF negro blood from some remote an
"estor, who marrics white woman. only
TO have his secret and shadowy misfor-
tune shouted 10 the whole world by the
nj q %,
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both parents. and probably lighter in
color and more apparently white than
either Of them. Both white-back and
black white children would be OF the an
proXimatcly same grade OF color as their
parents. and the one black black child H.
heriting all tho black blood OF both
parents 1.-TWO factors in cachI would have
the full four factors and be pure black
negro. But in the mating OF a pure white
with Il pass for white it, is, TO say the
least, highly improbable that any child
could be born more negrod in its appear.
ance than its darkest parent.
incidentally another biological inaccu-
racy in the play may be pointed out. and
that is the tense and spectacular moment
when the mother, who can no longer be
denied seeing her newborn baby, leaps
from her couch, bursts from the arms OF
her husband and discovers, 10 her horror,
that her baby is black. followed by an in
human revulsion OF feeling against her
innocent child. The only defect in this
situation is that 1t could never have hap
pcned, for the simple reason that negro
babies. even OF purcst African strain. arc
never born black. or any tint approaching
il. still less child OF such highly diluted
mixture as represented in this situation.
Negro babies AT birth are OF a dull
saty or blush white tint skin. and re-
main so for several weeks. The reason
for it is the same as for white babies
never being born with black, brown or
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The Elements of
Mcndcls Law Of Hereditv.

To make 4 long story short, The
method has since been tried ont upon a
great Variety OF plants and domestic ami
mails With the net result that while il is
not accepted in its entirety by the scien-
tine world, it is regarded as having given
us clearer idea Il closer picture Of the
actual mechanism OF inheritance than we
ever had before
Just 10 give a single, simple illustra.
ton from the poultry yard when a Black
spanish rooster is mated with a Silver
Hpangicd Hamburg hen. one being a
glossy, raven black and the other a beau.
ilfn!y notified and spangled whitc-and-
black, and if,! OF the resulting eggs are
Matched IN an Incubator. the chicks when
lrdthcr"d out We're found 10 he not cuual
mixtures and mottling OF white and black
but Ouc-lourth Of them glossy black like
me father, onc-fourth $panglcd white like
me mother, ana onchaIf OF them a beau
tiiul siaty blue with black trimmings"
These intermediate. Slate-cOlorcd birds
are known as Blue Andamsians and
curious As II may seem this beautiful
ana popular breed has 10 be produced
atrcsh each generation in thi, same fash
ION. because by the further working OF
me same ingenious law. if a pair Of blue
chickens are mated together, their off.
spring instead OF hcjmg all blue. like
nom parents. proceed To split up into
perfect Kaleidoscope OF different colors,
again according TO 4 definite rule Of pro.
PORTIONS, which are too complicated to
-" further followed. on the other hand
YOU play both ends against the middle"
ana INtlc one OF the black chicks re.
Schn.ing the father with one OF the white
Spanr'cd chicks resembling the mother.
lhe sam" combination viii repeat itself
." per cent OF Blue hndalusians, % per
GEM hach Spanish and - per cent Silver
SrangIcd ilamburgs
non "" attempt "a discover whether
III" hcndcliaM law applies 10 human she
clcs, "" are OF course. cut off from tho
JhoS, valuable resource Of all, the cxpcri.
mental method, partly because human
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that a 'SPass- for White" Person Married TO
q Pure White May Have q Negro Child

life is so long that il would take nearly
century to get the three successive
generations required. and partly because
unions between brothers and sisters are
not permitted by law and public scnti
ment. So that the best that we can do is
to take two races as widely apart as pos
sibe. and with some striking. singular
difference between them. and find out
what happens to this difference when
those possessing it intcrmurry.
1t Is, OF course, impossible TO go into
details, but after several yeal r.; OF careful
study. Of actual facts OF race mixture in
the Bermudas. Dr.. Davenport. OF the Flu.
Senlcs Laboratory. came to the following
working conclusions: That there are four
factors or units required for the prOtiuc-
ton OF the full black negro color. of which
the pure or Guinea" negro has all four
the thrce-quartcr blood negro. that is half
way between pure black aud mulattO. has
three; The muiattO or hal!-breed two the
QuadrOon one. the OctorOon onc-half
while the white, OF course. has none at all.
Or course, there are many difficulties in
the way, questions OF paternity among
different children in the same family
questions OF accurate birth registration
and family history. but when the doubt
full cases have been eliminated. il seems
fairly clear 10 the Investigators that
when white or partially white man or
italy black mate. the children. instead OF
being all intermediate in point Of color,
vary widely in color between the CIV
tremcs possessed by both parents And
whenever a sufficient number OF families
representing the same racial mixture
could be secured TO give fifty or more
children, il was found that, roughly speak
ing. onclourth would be as white as III"
whiiesI parent oncfOurth as dark as the
darkest. and onc-half Of q varying mix
turc between the two.
Another feature. however, soon came
to the front With great distnctncss. and
that is that while there might ne a wide
variation in The color OF the different off.
spring OF one pair OF parents. none OF
those offspring was ever found darker
than The sum of the darkncSscs Of the
two parents. For instance. when pure
white man mated with 4 black woman,
some Of the offspring might he jet black,
like the mother, some nearly pure white
like tho father. and the others interim"
date. because there were present III the
maternal parent four full factors OF black.
ness, and consequently any child might
inherit all four
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The Color Problem Settled
by Exact Scientific Methods.

But when a white man married
mulatto woman. though the children
would be varying degrees Of color. not
one would b. darker than the mother. or
the darker parent. that is TO say. The
mother having only two factors and the
father none Il; all. none Of the children
was in the mcltn@-pot. The same thing
held trnc in the marriage OF white man
with an octOrOOn or quadrOOn woman. No
child was born darker than the mother.
From which purely scientific piece OF alb
stract investigation emerged the interest
ing. practical result that no individual.
either knowing or suspccting that he has
some slight trace Of negro blood, need
have any serious fear OF having a child
born TO him darker in color or more
n"gro.likc in feature ;han he is himself
If he mates with white partner.
This so strongly contravcncd the
popular belief. embalmcd in legend and
story Of tho 'Rlack Frankcnstcin" order.
that tho Commission al once proceeded
To investigate the evidence upon which
this belief in Il "ihrowback" to the Origi-
nal type was based. and made thorough
and careful search for all reported or
recorded instances OF the occurrence OF
such distressing incident. Two OF their
most skiiiiul trained pcdigrcc-traccrs
and records. Tho result was, considerably
to their own surprise. that they were nm
able TO find a single authentic and docu-
mcptcd chsc OF such a catastrophe ever
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chiefly because the wcil-known result in
point OF color. hair. features. etc, OF the
intcr-brccding OF white and negro races
arguments in disproof of the Mendelan
theory OF inheritance. 1t had nothing 10
90 with the question OF Misrepresentation.
or the dcsrability or undcsirablity OF
the mixing of races merely cold
hlooded scientific desire 10 get at the
facts OF what actually happened when
two diverse races were intcr-mated To
avoid the possibility OF misunderstood
ings and for other obvious reasons, the
studies we're carried out not in the
United States, but in some Of the British
West lndicS-thc Bermuda Islands
The Mendeiian theory. 10 put il very
briefly and crudcly holds that in place
OF inhcrtins a "!ifty-liity" combination
o! the characteristics of both parents.
ana consequently representing a position
half way between their two extremes.
say, OF color or height or mental ability,
child receives them in most unequal
ANA varying proportions often twice as
much from one parent as from another
and vice versa. Indeed. il undertakes TO
Jay down law which would govern the
variations Of these rcscmb!anccs TO
father or mother: namely. that OF any
large body OF offspring. one-tOurth would
closely resemble the mother in respect
10 the particular character, one-fourth
the father ana one.half would present
a nearly equal mixture OF the traits and
either resemble both parents or stand
malt way between tho two This Men.
Gel mad worked out and Ccrroborated by
thousands OF most ingenious and pain
stalking experiments in crossing various
garden plants and flowers notably the
sweet pea, with astonishingly accurate
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.aSg-~,Srrwzw-vpY-~wswE.s

bright blue eyes, namely, that il takes light
TO de"clop color or pigment. All babies
are born with eyes OF the same color. like
kittens and puppics--that is, IL dull lead
color which is sometimes romanticized
into blue by adOring parents and relatives.
but which gradually. under exposure TO
light, develops in from two 10 four
months time the black, brown, hazel or
blue color which will distinguish it for
Similarly many white children arc
born with light flaXcn or even golden hair
which, to the bitter regret of their
mothers, gradually darkenS to brown.
mud-color or even black Nor is there
any clear clue distinSuishablc save by an
expert. to the race OF newborn baby
from features or hair. For tho good and
sufficient reason that all babies rich and
poor. black, white, yellow and brown
come into the world with exactly the
same set OF featureS-that Of the prim
tive ancestors OF all human breeds. tho
Congo dwarfs. who are thousands of years
older than any OF the so.callcd -Four Great
Races Of mankind.
The same uncertainty applies to tho
hair, which, in many babies. is neither
kinky nor straight at first, but (such as
there is Of IT'D Of curious wavy. half.
frzzly texture, with n strong tendency
toward a rusty brown or reddish orange
tint, regardless Of the degree Of kinkiness
and blackness or straightness and flaxen.
ness which 1t may assume later in life. |
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A Very Deeply
Rooted Popular Delusi0n.

hirth OF 4 BLACK
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-15
Beauty Of PsnnsyIvania.

In one respect only Pennsylvania Is
unchanged and Interchangeable. Men
have dealt harshly and shamefully by
her, but nature has crowned her with
beauty. Her founder knowing moth
Ing Of his broad tracts. save that they
were forest lands, gave to the new
province the pretty name of Sylvania,
and Charles H., always postmaster
Of words, prefxeNthe Penn, for which
pleasant conceit every son and daugh-
ter Of the state owes him n grateful
thought. Thus the word Pennsylvania
perpetuates history, honors noble
name and symbolizes the loveliness OF
the land, a land Of woods and waters,
hills and valleys, fat farms and rocky
solitudes. The shrieklng engine that
drags It's trainload Of passengers
through the valley Of the Juniata,
across ridge after ridge Of the Ale
ghenies, past the Tuscarora gap and
the succession Of narrows-Long Mar
rows, Jacks Narrows, Packsaddle
Narrows-has traversed a country SO
widely and nobly beautiful that, In Eu-
rope, It would attract the tourists OF
the world.-Agnes Repplier In Ameri-
can Magazine.
The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1916-09-15
KEITH'S THEATRE

The vaudeville season at Keiths
Theatre, Providence, began this week
with corking big bill, with capacity
audiences every performance the early
part of the week, and every act making
the most pronounced hit. The new
| Cut Rate Matinees were doubtless re-
| sponsible for much OF the crowds and
surely never before was such brilliant
array OF vaudeville stars offered at such
absurdly low prices. Geneyieve Clife,
the former Albee Stock Company favor
ite, was given a rousing greeting, and
her one-act play, "A Breath of Old Vir-
ginia," proved one of the most genuine
ly enjoyable comedy sketches ever in
vaudeville.
For the coming week another espec-
tally strong bill is. announced, an all
star program of a most promising
nature. Among the headliners will be
the Navassar Girls, sixteen talented
musicians, who give the most pictur-
esque and novel musical act of the year.
These versatile young women are all ex-
pert musicians, and their act is de-
lightful treat of harmony.
Nan Halperin, the Personality Girl, a
diminutive miss who is rated vaude-
yille's cleverest singing commedienne,
will appear with an all new song cycle,
depicting Ave phases of girlhood, and
Van & Schenck, the popular dialect
singing comedians, will appear in all
new songs. A feature of special import
ance for the little folks-and for adults,
too-will be Meriam's Forty Canine
Actors, the greatest animal novelty ever
in America. "The Pretenders" is the
title of a very funny comedy to be
presented by Ryder Keane and Ilka
Deigl, and "Around the Compass" is a
big scenic spectacle to be offered by
Estele and Adelaide Lovenberg and
Thomas and Simon Neary, consisting of
characteristic songs and dances of the
North, South, East and West.