DANCING IN CHURCH

Stratford Evening Post, Volume III, Issue 346, 29 April 1935, Page 5

DANCING IN CHURCH

*iflr —*— GIRL WITH SCARLET PAINTED TOENAILS. Ruth St. Don is danced in the chancel of a famous Presbyterian church in New York with her toe-nails tint- , ed with cantiine, says the London News-Chronicle. Horrified elders of other churches protested to the New York Presby- j tery, that the dance was an '.attack j on the purity of the Church." Miss St. Denis was interpreting the verse from Psalm G 3. "When I remember Thee upon my i bed and mediate on Thee in the night ; watches."

She wore severe robes of black and white, but the bright painted toenails peeped ou't. This is Miss StDenis's retort to her critic;

"I am quite sure that the choir Women powder 'theiCr noses before they enter the choir stalls, and the minister takes a good shave and brushes his hair before he goes into

.the pulpit. "When I, as a dancer, put nail polish on my toes it is no different from a choir girl putting polish on her finger-nails.

"During the next five years dancing in church will become so common that (here will he no criticism.