The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-02-15
ROY M. JOHNSON
WRITES ABOUT
NUMBER ARDM0RE
PEOPLE AT TUCSON

An interesting letter from Roy NJ
Johnson who with his family are in
California where Mrs. Johnson and
little son, Otey, viii remain several
weeks, was received recently shortly
after their departure from Tucson.
Arizona The letter was written while
they were ON the Sunset Limited.
dated somewhere between Tucson and
Los Angeles" and is as follows;
"Elnclosei is clipping l have just
taken from Los Angeles Times Of
February ., concerning Ann Thomp-
son.
spent last night at Tucson. A
number of ArJmore people were stop
ping at the Santa Rita, our hotel.
John Cameron, who has been there
about four weeks; Wilmer Anderson
who has been there since September
and who looks in the best health |
ever saw him; and Mrs. A. c. Cruce
who is spending her second winter
there, and has become one of the
towns best boosters. 1 understand
Hattie Burnitt is attending school
there also.
Lee Cruce and daughter, Lorena,
and Miss Ada Bennett are oldtimers
there, having spent a number Of years
in this popular southern Arizona
health resort
tha hao1thft1 nd 1arliant fanAc
OF all these Ardmore people are a
criterion, Tucson must be the most
wonderful health resort in the world
And when they once get u new
conner from Ardmore in their clutch
es IT is next to impossible TO break
away-how we did it l know not.
well, / am coming right back tc
Ardmore as soon as l get my family
settled in Los Angeles, for the rest
of the winter, but ! hardly dare return
the same route, for fear l will never
get past Tucson II Healdton crude
drops again, / shall have to return
via side door Pullman"
Troy NJ. JOHNSON
Mr.. johnson is expected home with
in the week. The clipping relative
to Miss Thompson, one of Ardmor'
most brilliant musicians and who ha:
scored a wonderful success on th'
Pacific coast follows:
The fact that poetry, the dance anC
music can apty be presented as ;
synchronized art was definitely provet
last evening by Ruth st. Denis in |
varied program at the Ambassador
This combination of the three arts i
so extremely new as TO seem at times
incrcdulous. Nevertheless, with Mis-
st. Denis'a aptness for color, staging
ami movement, it bids fair to establish
itself as n new school of theatrica
poetry-provided, of course. that it !
sponsored by artists of the rank o
Miss st. Denis.
At last evenings recital the Persian
Triart Suite was the most note
worthy. Miss st. Denis's interpre
tation Of the dancing girl, Graf
Wards version of the romantic poet
Ann Thompson's vivid piano work a
lent color 10 this series of old-worl
poems set to music with aplomb b
Arthur Foote.
The St Denis "visualizations" Of tn
two composers, Chopin and List. an
her Grecian veil plastique. howevel
do not harmoniZe so well with he
personality and physique as do dance
more dramatically oriental. Her II
: depreciation Of List "Valse Oubliee
was, to say the last, outstanding
its daring in an other wise moderai
program.
. Ann Thompson played a MacDowe
Concert Etude, Beethoven's Germa
Dance and the Mana yucca Vals
=, Rrillante, colorfully, with facile pr
, ductlon. The next Of this series I
programs will be given Tuesday at Il
c Ambassador.