The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1918-05-18

even step and a spirit worthy OF you
Oh Maid of Orleans! Thou once
daughter but now mother of France.
No. Z, Girls Combination wands and
dumb bells. All went well and grand
ly The music played merrily along
and the pretty girls sang along with
it in silent motion, swinging here and
there, leaping up, now back, turning
gracefully, kneeling and bending to
the floor, rising together in perfect
unison and sounding bell against bell,
wand against wand, while all per-
formers bent backward and forward
in matchless, tuneful style. No. 8,
Boys Battalion-Inspection and Re-
view-developed seeming satisfaction
to their commanding officer, certainly
satisfaction to their commanding Off
Ger, certainly to the audience. No. g.,
Girls-Indian Clubs directed by a
physical training cadet. The writer
wishes to commend the girl that per-
formed directly in front of the South
entrance. There was positive preci-
sion, grace and ease in here execu-
tion. The Sham Battle was great,
new, realistic, inspiring. It's execu-
tion was characterized by a fitting
hustle and hustle and an energy fully
showing important phases Of war.
youths FrivoIities."
Eternal youth as it is frolicsome
and blithesome is joy unto itself and
all, when clothed in the beautiful sun
shine of purity. We cannot picture
in infinite detail the complete story
that the extended ballet narrated in
glowing and beautiful numbers. All
we attempt is to recall the scene as
a whole. We close our eyes and
think back to last Friday night and
see the fitting visions pass and re-
pass in effusions of poetic time and
coy step. They skip, bow, swing and
turn and bow again. These daughters,
some as sable and lovely as midnight
when the quiet beautiful stars bristle
down from the sky, some brown and
gold as the varying ears of sun-kissed
corn all move to the matchless spell
of music-music that would inspire
trees to dance if they had soul-heart
and temperament as these children of
the happy. The scene is a delightful
one. Youth, music and freedom-a
blessing, an elixir-a joy. The pleas
ures and gayety of childhood-a near
approach to heaven for of "such is
the kingdom" said the Master The
story is fascinating to dancer and OBJ
server alike. The aesthetic" num-
bers leaped out prominently for at
tention. What is the aesthetic? The
aesthetic is art which has reached a
sere state of perfection where crude
thought may not enter it's holy sane
tum, where the ideal and the ideals
lover become one in expression and
blend happy wedding like the fair
morning with the solemn day. So the
freshmen blended with "Marche Mig
non" So the great chorus with the
Polka Fantastique. So the Village"
flirt entered the soul of happy hours
and danced and danced the spirit, of
jo yon finely poised toe, and so
danced the wedding party" The
Minors were none the less artistic
in their delineations. "Pierrot and
Pierette" brought a fine atmosphere
of rumor. The Spanish" dance nat
urally had its castillion air of gran
deur. One dark beauty was striking
ly Spanish in her general makeup.
She came from the south entrance
as if from Sunny Spain itself, now
the land of Jack Johnson! The Gold
en- Butterflies" were all dreamy, fairy
like creations fitting indeed, capri
ciously with the wavy winds of mu-
sic. The unpronouncable (Pavlowa
Gavotte) we are told calls for much
rehearsing on the part of profession
ais who use it in their classic roles,
yet we, in our humble way, found no