MISS RUTH: The `More Living Life' of Ruth St. Denis

by Terry, Walter

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NY:: Dodd Mead,, 1969. Dust jacket spine worn, chipped. Book: ink name on front endpaper; otherwise, condition rather good.. index. With 32pp. of b&w photos. Walter Terry, N.Y. Herald-Tribune dance critic & unabashed admirer, recounts life of `Miss Ruth'; of her rise from vaudeville & stage dancer to be called First Lady of American Dance. With husband & partner Ted Shawn, their Denishawn School & Company led the Modern Dance world, launching Martha Graham and other legendary dancers. ||| After their professional & marital parting in 1931, Miss Ruth continued dancing well into her eighties. Shawn organized Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, which later continued as an internationally important dance center.