Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-03-10 | Page 16 | Fights Her Own Dance

1 FIGHTS HER OWN DANCE Left: Marths Lorber, sneer with "Mecca, haled to court In Chicago on chsrsjs of dancing without sufficient clothes. Might: Mercedes Guthrie of the Van Vliseingen Interpretive School of Dancing. Inset: Mrs. Jean Van Vliasln. gen, originator of the bar. legged dance, who l now soaking to stop it. I CHICAGO, March 10. Mrs. Jean Van Vlissingen of ChScajro, who started the vogus of here-footed, bare-legged dancing dan-cing in ihis country, han epiidlatd lt ' "Commerclaliam . haa so debauched esthetic and Interpretive dancing that much of It Is now only an excuse for the vulgar display of feminine nudtty." she says. "Hereafter I will teach religious re-ligious dances and will do all In my power to have stopped the vogus that I created. "Americans should dance for health's sake. Hut I hang my head in shame when I ee how the art has been made ia-noole by money-grabbing people. We ' should set up at once a censorship against ' euvh dam-es." -