N" Yell. Saturday. . . ‘ a
I ' fashionable dancing teachers and.
wealthier litter.
wise would succumb to "jazz."
Stories are written about girls with less luminous
eyes than Miss Beatrice Wanger. the wealthy young
teacher. less earnest purpose, less philosophic grasp
of life. She is in fact, a “story book girl," from the
unusual circumstances of her upbringing
to the amazing purpose of her life and
the way in which she proceeded to fulfill
that purpose. ‘
Climbing the steep, narrow stairway
above the quaint old stable at 154 West
Fifty-fifth street Would
not ordinarily lead to the
suspicion that in the
front studio, at the top of
that flight, there would
be found a young daugh-
ter of wealth and culture.
Nor would the beholder
suspect that here in
studio No. 1, with the
great skylight and the
smooth floor, this same
young (laughter of pros-
perity and high finance
is literally putting over a
revolutionary dance idea
with the hope that she
will teach to girl workers
the true rhythm of life
through their bodies.
Miss Beatrice Wanger
was born in San Fran—
cisco, the birthplace of
’ Isadora Duncan and' of
other dancers of fame,
but her family is con-
nected with New York
financial kings and her mother's people
all were natives of New York. She be
longs to one of the most substantial and
prosperous of New York's moneyed
classes, but of that she begs that little
be said.
“Talk of my work, my great hope." Miss
“'anger insisted. when the topic of con-
versation was turned upon herself. "I
do not care how much of an inheritance
I have, and anything you say' about it
will only make a breach between my
girls and me. I do not wish that. “'9-
are all girl workers. I work six hours
a day."
Gowned in a simple but expensive black
dress Miss Wanger stood with that man~
her of infinite repose, almost magnetic
quiet, which is so much a part of her
personality and told what she believed
life was all about.
"My idea is the oppositeot the jazz
idea," she said. “an2 jarrs. I hope,
through the mind and the body, to create
a rhythm of life in the girl so that every-
thing she does will seem to be a part of
the great universal scheme. You know
how many girls lack poise. Jazz has a
tendency to destroy poise. My plan is to
encourage it. Poise helps us meet the
problems of life; it holds us in leash; it
gives us a saner viewpoint.
"It is the law of life to work," Miss
M’anger explains. “I could not, be con-
tented living in ease and comfort on file
labor of others. All of us have some
great contribution to give to society, and
mine, I hope, is a message for the rhythm
of life, the control of_the body with the
mind. the use of beauty in our daily
affairs.
"Those girls whose pm demands it
pay for their lessons; the others who
N cannot afford it are not obliged to pay.
ASHIONABLE dam have ‘fluit equally
fashionable, the former pay the latter to. in .
keeping with their mutually high estates.
Now. it appears the working girl—she of the fac-
tory. alien and shop, even the sweat shop—bu her
dancing teacher too. and is learning quite as much
about the spring dance and its exuberance as her
And, reversing the custom, this
dancing teacher for the poor girls is herself a
debutante and a millionairess as well. Her “temple"
is a quaint, cozy loft over a stable: her pupils come
to her from work. And she pays most of the ex-
penses from her own pocketbook. She declares that .
she can amuse herself in no better way than in bring.
ing rhythm into the lives of working girls who other— .
both being
I have found out many things in my work
on the East Side," Miss Wanger says.
“I went ‘down there and learned that
lovely flowers sometimes bloom in ugly
soil, and I found that it Would be a
privilege for me to give what I knew of
the beauty and rhythm of life to these
girls who are giving the substance of
life by their labor.” ‘
One of. the most remarkable things
about Miss Wanger is the method she
uses in working out her idea that all of
life is a rhythm and that the body,
through the mind, can develop that
rhythm and thus put the whole personal-
ity of a man or woman or girl in tune
with the universe. Her method was to
live on the East Side, where she worked
for two years with girls in settlement
houses. “After I had seen them in their
native soil," she says, “I felt prepared to.
teach them, and I opened a studio."
In six years this lovely, dark haired
young woman has taught 2,000 girls not
only to danCe but to adjust themselves
to life, to attain poles and to acquire
some comprehension of the beauty and
meaning of the great world of beauty
that is only waiting for them to adven-
ture into.
Miss Wanger is a former pupil of
Isadora Duncan, andfrom that world
famous classic dancer. she says she re-
ceived' priceless gems of thought and
Tracing Heirs to England’s “Lost Money?
HERE is treasure in London await-
ing the taking. Millions of pounds
I of “lost money" is hidden away
in the Government treasury, and so far
as is known nobody owns it. Every three
years the Chancery Division of the High
Court of Justice in London Issues a long
list of the various funds in court to which
there are no known claimants.
These funds have come into the court
in diner-eat ways, some of them in large
amounts, some in small, and in every case
the money is the legal property of some
person, but the identity of the owner is
unknown. These amounts. collectively,
are known as "the dormant funds." The
money has been accumulating for 200
years.
“The dormant funds” have been the
M for the utilising up in London. of a
\
strange profession whose members earn a
living by tracing down unsuspecting heirs
and offering to prove to them that they
are owners of fortunes. It is no easy pro-
fession. A tremendous amount of work
must be done in, searching for an heir.
The first procedure of the men is to dis-
cover which particular fund is of a large
enough amount to make investigation
worth while, and to get this information
a girl is constantly employed in the
Court Records office digging out all pos-
sible detailb. .
Frequently it is the case that's your ,or
two years is spent on a successfuibenrch
for an heir. The search occasionanylaade
to America or the British coloniea’on the
trail of an heir who'per‘nm 121; W
lacyearsago. '7
The authority on which the "dormant
funds” are hean an act of Parliament
of 1723. -
If a person thinks he or she is the legal
heir to a part of the "funds it is still very »
difficult to get it. Frequently old ladies
write in and inclose some such proof asa
copy of a letter written‘by a fathercor'a
grandfather, asserting that his heirs
could get £50,000 by writing to the court.
This is too little proof.
.After all, the best way to get money out
of the “dormant fund," if it is due, is to
put the matter into the hands of the pro-
fessional treasure hunters. They know
that trailer proofs are required. '
Now and then attempts by fraud are
employed. but such efforts are rarely suc-
cessful. - , - . "
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body development in conjunction with
mental expression.
"l longed to express beauty as a girl,”
Miss Wanger explained. "I had an op-
portunity to do so. I was, of course.
sent East to school. I found out that
there were means of 'attunlng yourself
to life. So many girls and women do
not understand this and perhaps that is
why their lives are so constantly at cross
purposes.
“Of all the girls I knew no one class,
it seemed to me,‘ so much needed help
in adjustment as the girls who work
in millinery stores, in sweatshops, de«
partment stores and oflicea. Many times
these young women are far superior to
their environments or to what their en-
vironments mean to them.‘ They are
restless. because unconsciously their
woman natures are seeking to express
the beauty that lies there and so.often
is given no medium of expression—rather
put out of harmony by ill advised gayety
and the whirr and stir of mere excite-
ment unaccompanied by any inner re-
sponse. ‘ ,, ’
“And this training, I- believe,. also
helps girls to find their vocations. It
gives them means of expressing them-
selves and removes shyness-fl ""
In short, every night at 6 o’clock, Wm
her class gamesgtrooplng up the stairs,
Miss! Warm Basins. what might be
menses; process of “soul development.”
Ina cornfihf the atadioovsr‘tbz batik.“
corral-eaten tickle sits ,3 small victroié. As
‘ ‘ _ ’v hut-s from'l‘iew York's stores
.
The large
lihotomph at
tie left is
. If “in
Beatrice Wanger,
the heiress,
who in devoting
her time to
teaching
dancing to
porn girls. In
the oval in one
of her pupils.
Below is n group
of her
’ students resting
between
exercise;
gr
and restaurants and factories pour in
with weariness on their faces she Starts
the machine. The delicate, wistful
strains of Mendelssohn'a "Spring Song”
float up to the high ceiling and to the
dressing room on the balcony. The girls
take off their hats. Already the repose
of the studio and of Miss Winger has
influenced them. ‘Ten minutes pass. They
have removed their dusty workday cloth-
ing and have donned filmy green and pink
and orchid draperies, chifion and cheese-
cloth and crepode chine, whatever the
particular girl could buy. With the gentle
suggestion of‘ Miss Wauger.
With their hair loosened, their bodies
draped with flowing garments of lovely
colors, they float. dowu to the dance floor
and begin to fall naturaiiy and gracefuily
into reclining postures on the door. Then
Miss “\er stops the ripple of the
“Spring Song“? andybeglae to talk. This is
to put their mine: into rhythm with
beauty. She tells them of books, of; pic-
tures and of music. She explains what
was in the mind of Mendelssohn and of
all the great. musicians such a Bach.
Beethoven, Kmart and List when they
created out of their emotions and their
minds matchleas tones of beauty to make
the world sweeter and better. 1va
movement, whether it be that our-ampe-
wrfter or on a hat frame; whether it
be in serving fafifmna tray or stamp--
tng bills inn cashier's cage, may be since
an and in harmony"; she explains. an
this. Risa Waxes“~ believes. tends to a
greateremcfieucy m_,work"and to a better
W to": forms of service.
. as Miss Wanger joins them, etc:
, gas filled tungsten lamps in
'rhcy'sst and absorb ;; —
girls, short girls, wistirzi ml ‘ _ Tan
girls with sullen faces; {rarity :11; hand
girls and some only a zencrflicl‘ m
moved from the Old “fetid, all listen Hill
prepare for their lesson in phmsopm
dancing, if that term can describe in ans
adequate way Miss Wanger‘s ucrk. gag;
one wired when she enters. Each one
now is beginning to revive.
And then they rise and zen .nm the
gentle, zephyrlike motions of lhe flan“
Te-
iri‘lizz now
and then to speak a quiet Word in 3 My]
. . t, .
a hint on arm movement to “1..
smile of encouragement to a s}
wailflowor not yet accustwrtte
“her. a
5' little
g ' e
floating draperies and to the rigliium 1::
fine young legs flashing in and out with
other girls in undulating :iin'i delicate
motion.
“Quiet, now,” murmurs 11’s,: Wane",
And the soothing quality «vi 3;...— Voice
falls like a blessing on n~,. >1 . . ; Leads
that so recently have been :. in ugzy
and grim tasks necessary y; (am.
ing of bread.
“’hen the lessons are
"cook their meals on the = w
kitchenette and Miss \‘i‘;
with them. They (zine .r~“ ; .
cureiy poised on their PM
"I could tackle .‘lllililzi‘ ‘: . 1,: "
the little millinery 3mm .
, , « man
she takes her first sir. , 1' : ..
Miss Wanger is izzmnr- ; . l. 7 gas
and in how their its-runs _ 7, 1328
dancing are helping tit :t: -' .7 _ r.
19.315 of their line. \ . .fl
girl.
"That girl lost her :2 .‘.« . > rs»
plained. "She was deg. :: ' -' r, 34
came in. She was v.2» .. 3,,
tackle the problem « 2' Ir - T-ri
again on the optics-vi ,1
Her courage is remix; 3.
The girl was the an. 1' _ Mg
girls dancing the " " a
look of illfillili‘ In?! :9 7 7 ~ , ”a
sank upon the if”. r tin“: ' j : re
of the music in an :21'3'. . . - "2-,:
adoration.
”It is really a litzie T .-
l‘or these “oi-kin; ; '1‘ . I . ‘ 7.?
says. "On 92:21:21. _'.» -_ . , . l
teat-h from 6 i: l: _
home lieaithtuiiy tin .3.
"it is less tiring 1?... . ‘ 7 . ,T
flirting: or 51‘ ippiztc :,:.i g 3.
te'csting.
development of the... " 2‘ _ .‘z
Don‘t }'-‘l '
is more inst-Emilia: .‘
my oun privilezgs
quent cxtensic ns -
Miss \Yl‘llf—Icfl‘ Q .\ "
i ii'i
iyté. She “Wants t1
wealth and 112'1'>;u -
thinking.
“Every girl «127:: ‘
says. “it she .
she ought to work inmi '
may be iieeilmwurk: i: .
V... .
All):
may be domestic >1 i.:.
lectures on
classes in needieum-k "
The lovely. 3- .
is full of stories of x m
her pupils: all of ll‘
girl went to London and 1- ' . ~
tiou. though that is far
oi Miss \Ynnger's trn'
she insists, in the
I‘avlowas. hit in the in
lianseiiz ' i .
bib.
lovely womanhood in '.
.to meet lil'e‘s prolrlnn. .
of the rare and ? cntiiul i-mzz'.
An example of the offs: . :‘ " ~ , ;',
is to be found in one your».
became a Show girl in a rm:
remained only one sea<-:»n. *~ :,-~:.-..
to Miss “finger and salt? KW; - ' ' '
the atmosphere of the runs.
hectic, she said. and ion :11:
ment. This summer the! 7:4": Y» 2 _
tion as a teacher of dun-pix: _: ~1-
stock.
Other 659625 of the trait” _' i
substitution of lli‘llllii‘ss i i
and Miss W'anger ilupes 13..“
braces character as well as
a new appreciation of p ‘
and a love for what is en‘i‘ ' "
rather than for who is ug‘y .r; .
And so the dark eyed
floats among these xle’vclcpin ,
giving helm and beauty aui .
“Not the rant of jazz, but i" ’
life,” is her message she say»:
T a country club ‘li-Zl?‘
A there is Cl‘jpit-yt-i .4 :t w
of electric fish's: :12,
that there are two cani- Ii
term the terminus «.::t' 2‘52: , ,
each of which measures -
by seventy-two feet. Tit. -~
ceilings are tinted a faint 9.: “
The light is all su,
tout pedestal which v.
\ .lfil'fi'
rot“ reflectors. liarsli _
are avoided with this .
fishing. and every detail 01 im-
tions has been clearly brought out.
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