The Washington herald., 1916-11-21
New York, Day by Day
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Special Correspondent Of The washington Herald.
New York, Nov. 1s.-Mme. Valentine de
Saint Point Is in our midst She Is a
geometric dancer and does not believe
In love. She finds her aspiration and
ecstacy In spirals-which sounds reason
able II true. II you don't get It here is
the explanation. The square is serene
and the circle Is restless. / thought that
would clear 1t up for the reader.
As Mime. Valentine points out. what
can express the feelings more perfectly
than the cone attained by spirals? And
indeed we ask what? She Is pet. phil
osopher. esthetician, playwright, painter,
engraver, lecturer and author. These IL
seems take up the greater part Of her
mornings. 4
She does not wear corsets. She abhors
them and she loathes modern fashions.
Geometrically speaking, she IL totally
different. But to get back to the geo.
metric dance. Nine. de Saint Point
thinks OF some geometric figure before
she begins her Interpretation. She dances
her own poems set to music.
One Of her dances symbolizes the war
In Europe and is called the poppy-the
poppy indicates the blood of French
heroes who have fallen. The effect Is
heightened by music, perfume and the
highly original costumes she wears. She
has come to New York to interpret for
US the art of metachory, which she has
invented. Metachory among the low
brows and uncouth people Is known as
geometric dancing. There you have It.
Pity the poor messenger boy-the kind
the cartoonists picture with spindly
legs eating out of a garbage can Under
the new scale in vogue one youngster in
Broadway office made $3.50 in a single
day last week. Another messengers total
earnings for the week were 81.
When the Democrats put out a poster
FOR Wilson bearing the inscription: He
has protected me and mine"' the Re-
pubhcans put one out labeled: He has
neglected me and mine" The other day
Broadway wag pasted a picture up in
front OF a drug store OF the Hughes fam
lily. Underneath was the inscription: He
has detected me and mine" And when
Lawrence Green secretary to Mr. Hughes
passed 1t. he stopped and looked and
could scarcely repress a smile.
Prof. Gustav Meyer. of Hoboken. is
only little bit OF a man and he's almost
baldheaded. but he certainly knows a lot
about what is going to happen in this
world.
Still he has a right to know, because
he Is scientific astrologer and gets in
side stun direct from Cancer, Aries, Leo
and other members of the well known
Zodiac family. He knows all the stars
by their first names too.
When an ordinary mutt goes out and
sees a brilliant star all he can do is
gurgle lot of foolish stun about 1t and
recite Twinkle, Twinkle" But the pro-
fessor can talk to 1t like a father would
to a child.
One OF them tipped him off the other
day that Roosevelt was going to get shot
about Christmas Day and another slipped
him the inside Info" that there will be
big naval battle in February with a
fifty-fifty result.
The professor admits that we are going
to have some weather this winter Some
Of 1t will be cold and some not SO cold.
And also we will have some sunshine
There is a new soft drink on Broadway
known as Sweet Kiss. A shy young fell
low walked up to one Of the girl atten-
dants the other day and asked her for
sweet kiss and she boxed his ears And
he had her arrested and hailed into court,
but the magistrate dismissed the case.