| Show I Y I J Q Q bT t 4 1 J Why Psychology Thinks the Standard Oil Heiress j 1 r 1 Count calm von Was Actually Intoxicated With the e t the believed winning to of who owe his Melody and Rhythm of the Dance Q bride brido H W nr T T g grace Iria as a dancer IF When en She e Rushed Headlong Into ft t F a Marriage With the Count I who Swept swe Her so Delight Delight- J f g F y AFT fi fully Over the tr i r c Ty i y I St t r y Ballroom 2 I S f ff t t I f Floor 11 T TI A AL AA L A fi j K I It t t P s 's ti ti r Rd F to toi i ya v F Fy y i Wk v I a t M 7 IdL A 1 c 9 1 By Professor Ernest R Groves 01 Boston ott m OLD beauty youth youth-Ja youth a heart in m inH GOLD G H exchange for Cor a fox Cox trot the trot the scales tipped heavily to one side when Millicent Rogers twenty old grand grand- granddaughter granddaughter daughter of oC the Standard Oil multimillionaire multi multi- multi millionaire swapped all she had for Cor a perfect dance slipped out of ol her luxurious luxurious luxurious rious Ritz Carlton C a r 1 11 ton o n apartment only a few lew ff x v weeps after first meet meet meet- y ing the Count Salm y gg v o 0 n J a y went down to the mar mat mat- roar roar- license luense bureau fand and anel married this Ana Ana- Anaf f r is isher of almost twice her age a Oil scheme u promoter Tun bj idL A y i T 1 t aerie f y v 4 r rM a tiny r y T N l lv I r i C I IJ t t tt dT e y t t J 9 i t P PJ iG J 3 r A scene from The Queen of Sm Sin one of several films in which the Count claims t to tt a t g Y have figured but where he seems as in this thin case to have had such sucha a minor part that that hIS v r s sg t di l y figure gure gureY b is not visible u Tun dealer in antiques ac- ac ac actor K TJ V Very few Cew tor of oC small email parts in inthe iA t 41 x men Inca m in c e a n the movies and bearer dance well of oC ofa oCa a somewhat shaky hado o g f k- k kI h I Most men title the Count had m 1 dance be- be r t but little to give his bis y ty bw c a use n e e of oC bride l k-l l A J the Al lox fox A sIne sate trot pleasurable that it tore her heart fi tY is t associations from rom its moorings not f C from T F o 0 m When he met MISs pure love of oC Rogers Rogen ho he was on terms ff 4 F y W d dancing a n c i n g as of intimacy WItha with a r t girls do When number of beautiful ul p pt t r a bunch of of'S women S 'S j jr r a tt KV school g girls i ria w ta tv j have free time l I u I ill at it The late they spend it taut hUll Lut but 1 Ller one Henry H H Rogers Millicent's multi multi- d dancing WIth dance danee with willi the youth youth- tul millionaire grandfather one one another ful heiress he threw but who ever nil over and devol devoted d himself to winning little Miss Millicent It seems reems to have been a genuine fox Cox foxtrot foxtrot trot romance The Count is a graceful grace grace- graceful graceful ful person and every woman who has known him goes into raptures over the way he dances It was WIlS this accomplish accomplish- accomplishment accomplishment accomplishment ment that first drew Millicent Rogers's att attention to him and that finally seems reems to ha e won her heart The two waltzed and fox trotted and tangoed together dar after day and night after lifter night at atall atall atall all the tho smart places Attuned to the tho lilt of musIc music sensitive to the charm of an exquisite dancer was as Millicent Rogers actually intoxicated by bythe bythe bytha the melody and rhythm of th the dance just as na people are by alcohol and drugs ben the she rushed headlong into a mar mar- marriage ruage nage that dismayed her parents and startled all her fashionable friends Young girls naturally love loco to dance Their bodies pulsate to the barbaric rhythms that float about them as they give themselves up to the magic that lies In the harmonious combination of mUSIC color and bodily movement movement repeated in- in in indefinitely definitely with endless variations They feel themselves caught aught up on the springtide spring spring- springtide tide spring tide of a rhythmic force that will not let their feet touch the solid ground of every day life he An AD unusually intelligent and well well- well educated educated girl of twenty had bad to admit that dancing meant more to her than anything else in m the tha world orld She would rather dance than eat sleep marry travel or succeed sneered financially or professionally protes When Ten a Ii girl is too tired to do any any- anything anything thing else she will dance her fatigue away growing more refreshed in mind nod body as IL the she yields to the lure of the tho dance It is s hard for a 0 young woman who cares much about dancing to think of marrying a man who a bo ho does docs not dance danca well LII An evening spent dancing with her hance who is but a mediocre dancer tor- tor tortures tor tortures tures her into lOto behoving for a tune time that th the he is not the man for Cor her heard of boys dancing together except in the case of sailors who dance danco to re- re relIeve relieve re relieve lieve the severe monotony of l life e on onboard onboard onboard board ship Ones One's partner Is the whole thing in these modern dances If It a girl delIghts in dancing follows easily and knows k tv twenty enty different steps andis and is crazy to tale take all ill those lovely it is lIke playing duets ducts with a person who ho can play only America to have to dance wIth a man whose dancing is stereo stereo- stereotyped stereotyped typed within narrow limits The man roan who dances surpassingly plays oc oc ha with the hearts of women Pas Pas- Passionately Passionately Passionately fond of dancing they easily include in their emotional excitement the m-in m who enables enable them to float on the tho thoM ings of melody Without a good partner art is domed denied expression having found a man to whose hose dancing they can fully respond they know delights such as no other man has been able to rp reseal repeal eal to them As the well-matched well couple executes a beautiful fox lox trot trot graceful and free beyond the imagination of the tho mass of 01 dancers the two become as it were one body gliding and lilting like one person per per- perron per person son ron son The physical harmony e a existing fisting be- be between be between tween the two dancers is so perfect that the one has but hut to think of a move move- movement movement movement ment and his Ills partner instantly per per- perceives per perceives hl his intention from the muscular accompaniment of ideas Ideus of motion The two carry out the new step stepas stepas stepas as smoothly as if it one mind governed both bodies The girl gut le feds s to be the com com- complement complement complement of the man merging me her identity ty in m his Her craving for lor the nearness of man 1 is more diffused than his desire for her A girl often finds the fruition of her sweetest t dreams in the arms of her dancing partner while bile ho he emerges from the soph sophisticated embrace less con con- content con content tent than before l Reveling in the emotional awakening wrought in her by the tho dance that has outdistanced ut her dreamiest pons the girl thinks to perpetuate the seventh heaven in I which she is drifting by linking her life with that of the man who vibrates with her to the tho barbaric rhythms of the jazz band The dance danco is botha both a stimulant and a narcotic Stimulated by the dance she attributes her mood of exaltation to the presence ol of her perfect partner partner and goes on to belle e that she can soar cr triumphantly dior tr all the obstacles Fate may throw in her path if 1 she but has this tills inspiring inspiring inspiring ing man at her side The ecstatic girlis girlis girl girlis is eager to prolong her state of ol happi happi- happiness happiness ness That his appeal is largely physical she does not guess but feels it rather to tobe tobe tobe be bea a subtle harmony of ol the spirit exist exiSt- exiSting existing existing ing between een her herself elf and her partner that colors the world with so rosy a hue Later in life the girl ma may fin find that she sho can an experience this same tide of ol emo emo- emotion emolion emotion tion lion when dancing witha with aith a man to whom she is otherwise indifferent or whom she really dislikes Ordinarily a man docs does not marry on the basis of a Il girls girl's dancing He lIe dances WIth one girl marries another r He en- en enjoys en enjoys joys dancing with the slip of a n girl who dances divinely but in a mate mato he seeks other qualities After marriage he be can still dance with the woman who enthralls him with her melody of movement To him a dance is a dance and nothing more to a girl it symbolizes the tho contacts of life Me But it tf ifa a man for lor any reason wants to take advantage of the infatuation of his dancing partner hl his hie course is s easy Ire has but to lead her whither hither M hither she sho would go With impetuous step she follows scarce observing even the propriety of allowing herself to be bp led lcd but keeping pace with her chosen mate or even out out- out outdistancing distancing him hun If It marriage is the mans man's objective he be heI bei heis I not hindered by a long engagement for the girl will brook no such delay Unconsciously bhe she realizes that her pas passion sion IllOn would not live through a matter of weeks or months unless bolstered up by bythe bythe bythe the support of marriage A girl wants a man she aha can bo be proud of one whom other women will honor with a second glance It pleases the tho feminine heart to be the acknowledged mate of a man desired by many Women The Tho exquisite dancer is in a position to bring to his bride this s satisfaction satisfaction for forthe forthe forthe the roost most distinguished women are aro glad to danco dance with hun him The rhe close and familiar pairing of ot the themen themen themen men and women dancers of to-day to is un- un un no unknown known among savages set et their dancIng is 18 no less Intoxicating than ours The gu girl 1 of day to-day v who ho los loses s herself In the throb of the dance is only reveal revealing ing the primitive strain which in her savage progenitors was closely connected C y e ein in the sf still SM I r p A AM M a M Ma 2 I Y s sr X XI r w t r L y yr r t r y y t 4 y f O f k s y le r rA Se A ki rt r r t tR R rl 4 q V v a M Millicent's n mother who may be sorry she didn't let her bead headstrong strong daugh ter have her way in one of her previous love affairs with the ecstasy of the dance Among primitIve men tIle the most usual method of arousing physical excitement that would lead to pairing is 15 some form Corm of th the dance Generally men dance Wore before the tho girls of their tribe intoxicating them them- it I Ij 0 r rI I 4 r yr ts 3 C s i w- w of 1 j if l a r l-r 1 tt s f Ala Alaa IM a S 'S t y t 9 a b byj 1 t t y t I I 2 rr i 1 A l Jt t- t tf f SJ OU OUI I The former Millicent Rogers Rogen who surprised her bet parents parenti by coming home with witha a wedding wed ing ring on 00 her finger and anda a rather mysterious Count for a husband selves and their spectators with their crescendo of frenzied movement Among primitive people dancing acts na as a mighty force fusing together the WIlls and wishes of the dancers in away a away away way that makes possible operation cooperation and unity of purpose in m other parts of their We life Since the dance is BO so powerful a means of getting many men to act as one often oCten contrary to their immediate personal advantage it is easy to see why our modem modern version enlon of the dance as car carried ried out by a couple moving together In Inthe inthe inthe the closest possible proximity so often sweeps a girl off her feet and impels her herto herto herto to accede to the mans man's desire Muscular movement tends tend to awaken bodily e excitement A famous physiologist git gi gist t has said The visible effects of pf f ex- ex ex exercise heightened heightened color bright eyes resolute air and walk are walk are those of slight Intoxication anda and a n girl who has walked for lor a II quarter of an hour bour is in the same condition is as as if she had bad drunk cham sham champagne One wonders ft what hat hat happens to the tho girl who waltzes and fox trots from Crom three to six hours daily A young girl who ho loves dancing has a dancing self sell So far lar as that part of her heris is 13 concerned the kind of man she ahe likes Is a man who can dan dance well If U she ahe is isan isan isan an ordinary girl with Yell a well developed well d financial self sell she ahe is s not likely to marry a man just because he satisfies her dane dane- dancing ing mg self sell for lor she has the tho wit t to know a aman aman aman man lannot cannot dance his way through life and earn a II living But what is money to a girl who has always had all the tho money she wants wanta and looks forward to always having baving more than she can spend 7 Her lIer dancing self is a good deal more significant than her finanCial self The thing that to toi others seems unimportant is to her as liS full of oC meaning as anything else The fact that a man maa is an exquisite dancer is reason enough for lor this girls girl's budding a friendship with him for in her world dancing Isa Is la a big thing So Soshe Soshe Soshe she develops her friendship and falls Calls tin un- un der under onder the sway of her interest until she oho be come comes dancing intoxicated with her friends friend's done ing skill just as another person becomes saturated with admiration for a man who business ho is doing colossal things in the busi bust ness world The girl whose dancing self Belt dominates her choice of a life lifa mate is s 1 only going back to a savage of way looking at things The savage would think more of ofa a mans man's man s being a good dancer than a good architect Inthe In lit the girls girl's reversion to a characteristic savage mode DIode of action adion there is nothing very strange ange Savage twits Swell its lie he close to the in women as well aswell as men l |
