The New York herald., 1922-05-28

SlrlS, snOTt glTl5, WlSlIul eySd girls anu
girls with sullen faces; frowsy and neat
girls and some only generation re-
moved from the Old World. all listen and
prepare for their lesson in philosophic
dancing, If that term can describe in any
adequate way Miss Wanger's work. Each
one Is tired when she enters. Each one
now is beginning to revive.
And then they rise and fall into the
gentle, zephyrlike motions of the dance
as Miss Wanger joins them, stopping now
and then to speak a quiet word to girl,
a hint on arm movement to another, a
smile of encouragement to a shy little
wallfower not yet accustomed to the
floating draperies and to the sight of her
fine young legs flashing in and out with
other girls in undulating and delicate
motion.
"Quiet, now" murmurs Miss WangeP.
And the soothing quality Of her voice
falls like a blessing on the young heads
that SO recently have been bent in ugly
and grim tasks necessary for the earn
ing of bread
When the lessons are over the girls
cook their meals on the gas stove in the
kitchenette and Miss Wanger cooks hers
with them. They dine from plates inse-
curely poised on their knees.
II could tackle another dozen hats"
the little millinery apprentice says when
she takes her first sip of tea.
Miss Wanger is interested in her girls
and in how their lessons In philosophic
dancing are helping them solve the prob
lens of their lives. She pointed to one
girl
THAT girl lost her Job to-day" she ex-
planned She was respondent when she
came in. She was absolutely untitled to
tackle the problem of life and to start
again on the upward grind. Watch her.
Her courage is coming back
The girl was the center of a group of
girls dancing the Ave Maria" With
look of infinite repose and confidence she
sank upon the floor with the final note
of the music in an attitude Of utter, rapt
alteration.
"It is really little home we have here
for these working girls" Miss Wanger
says "On Saturdays we have tea.
teach from to IL every night and go
home healthfully tired, but not tagged
1T is less firing than bridge parties or
flirting or shopping and much more in
teresting Don't you suppose that the
development of these hungry young souls
is more fascinating than a devotion to
\ my own privileges of parties and fire.
quent extensions of the wardrobe?"
Miss wanger is something of a prose
lyte. She wants to convert other girls of
wealth and prosperity to her way of
thinking.
Every girl ought to work hard" she
says. eff she has one accomplishment
she ought to work hard to pass 1t on. 1t
may be needlework; it may be music; it
may be domestic science. She could give
lectures on household arts and hold
classes in needlework."
The lovely, dark head of Miss Wanger
is full of stories of what has become Of
her pupils; all of them interesting. One
girl went to London and became sensa-
ton, though that is far from the object
80 Mice wapoar, training Che ie pof
she insists, in the business OF making
Pavlowas. but in the business of making
lovely womanhood in tune with life able
to meet life's problems and enjoying some
of the rare and plentiful beauty of life
An example of the effect of this purpose
is to be found in one young woman who
became show girl in revue. But she
remained only one season. She returned
to Miss Wanger and said she did not like
the atmosphere of the revue 1t was too
. hectic, she said, and too full of excite
ment. This summer that girl has a posi-
tion as a teacher of dancing at Wood
stock
Other effects Of the training are a
substitution OF frmness for looseness.
and Miss Wanger hopes that this en-
braces character as well as physical poise;
a new appreciation of poise and rhythm
and love for what is beautiful and fine,
rather than for what is ugly and sordid
And so the dark eyed young heiress
floats among these developing young girls,
giving balm and beauty and character.