Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-03-24


transformed into vast bower of
flowers. with smilax twining up the
balcony columns from window boxes
on the balcony rails, and with the
stage set with the prim rows of nod
ding hollyhocks, sun flowers and
peoples of an old fashioned garden
with it's painted picket fence and
trellises, and with the participants in
every number of the eighteen spe-
cial interpretive, character. folk, and
society dances on the program COM
pletely coStumed, the second annual
Spring Dance Recital by the young
pupils of Miss Dorothy Elise Gray's
classes bids fair to be one of the
most elaborate and gorgeous exhibit
tons of its kind ever to have its
locale in City hall or in this city.
The recital will occur on the eve
ming of Friday. Apr. 4, and follow
ing the hour and a half of the re-
cital program, there will be two
hours and a half Of general social
dancing.
Miss Gray, besides her training in
her profession at the Zorn Normal
School of Dancing at Boston, has
in New York. and part of the pro-
gram for the 1924 recital will be
made up of numbers which are
typical of the Chalif school and
bear the artistic impress of that
great Russian master. Several Of
the other special dances will be
original compositions by Miss Gray,
and her wonderfully conceived and
executed compositions are widely
known. Besides the Spirit of I'M
mortality dance which she origin
ated and danced at the Independ-
enct day celebration in the Capital
City two years ago. and again pre-
sented at Pawtucket, r. l., last
summer, Miss Gray composed the
Heart of the Storm" dance, which
/ was one of the outstanding features
of the elaborate entertainment at
the 1924 State of Maine Winter Car
nival ball.
Half a hundred young dancers
will appear in the exhibition. and
besides the Is numbers Of the pro-
gram by the pupils, Miss Gray will
dance two solo dances. The young
Augusta instructor of dancing is
probably the only Chalif trained
teacher conducting classes in this
State at the present time, and the
dances to be presented at the recital
oh faPi IL X nave AS'cf pccH SlaBeu
in Maine.
The Chalif compositions will in
clude the following: "Capriccio," an
interpretive solo dance by Miss Lii
liam Foyt; "Marionette." doll dance
by four little girls; "Krakowski."
which is of Polish sentiment, a
solo number by Miss Christine Ell
lis; "Hopak." a Russian peasant
dance which will be delineated by
four girl dancers, two of them Co.'S
TUNED as boys; "Habernera," a
Spanish dance which will be pre-
scented with all the fire and nerve
of it's native CASTLE by Miss Mary
Nelson. Little Miss Nelson is yet
but six years of age. but her dance
interpretations are exceptionally
clever and artistic. Rustic Waltz"
a solo dance by Miss Dorothy Nc
Donald; Spring" an interpretive
group dance by nine girls: Are
/ There Fairies?" solo character dance
by Miss Marjorie Gray: dance de
! Societe," a number by eight of the
older girls of the high school class
! in evening dresses. La Zingara." e
gypsy solo dance, will be interpreted
| by Miss Dorothy Elise Gray.
1.-THE Flappers," a very modern num-
! bcl SOllpCSSu 10y MISS dIdS, Will De
! danced by Miss Edith Garcelon; "Mah
! Jongg," an original composition show
! ing the Chinese influence and particu-
/ larly timely, will be presented by five
couples: a Dutch Dance" conceived by
Miss Cray, will be danced by Miss
Doris ThibCdcau. The music for this
number has been composed by another
, Augusta artist, Miss Alice B. Good
, rich. Comm Thru the Rye" is a fan
! tasy, which will be given by a boy and
girl: The Valentino Argentine Tango
will be danced by two couples Miss
| Blanche Violette and Thomas Cahill
| giving the senior interpretation, and
| then diminutive Miss Marjorie Gray
and Master George Dearborn will
present a pocket edition Interpretation.
Little Joyce Goldberg. five years old,
| in tiny ballet costume will be n most
charming little toe dancer as the
Fairy" and the awakening OF the
Tulips" will be enacted by group of
eight girls. &c Papillon," an inter-
pretive solo by Miss Jessie Nichols;
"NCvelette," a modern society fox trot
with costume and swagger stick by
Miss Madeline Fox. Miss Gray's sec
end solo number will be an interpretive
dance, Grace"
The young dancing pupils have been
busily rehearsing their exhibition
dances, and in many homes in the
city the mothers have been occupied
with the costumes which will make this
recital one of the most ambitious and
attractive ever attempted in the city.
In another home workshop Miss Gray
and her able assistants have been pre-
pairing the great numbers of vari-col-
ored paper flowers which will carry
ont the decorative Schcma
Some $500 separate blossoms have
been made up of poppies, tulips. sun
flowers, jonquils, hollphocks, wistaria
and smilaX. Red and yellow will be
the predominant colors in the gorgeous
decorations, and petaled tulips in these
colors will shade the low of lights I'M
der the balcony. High up in the CEN
ter of the auditorium there will hang
a great basket Of old-fashioned flow
ers, and projecting from this basket
there will be sweeping arms of stream
ers and gay Japanese lanterns.
The orchestra will be placed in the
little latticed enclosure with urns of
spring flowers on the columns. The
corner of the hall next to the kitchen
will be set aside for the refreshments
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