New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1928, Page 19

The Apache,— een, Daring and Cruel. The . Study Is Posed by M. Andr Paviey, of the Famous Pavely-Oukrai ky PARIS. PRETTY American girl and a Paris apache met recently in a tangled web of jewels and justice spun @cross the sinister shades of this city's underworld. The sequel was startling. Not only did the young lady ehatter all Kreudmts for American behavior abroad, ut gave the French courts a new wrinkle on “How to cure crime.” If a movie camera mzn was bent upon filminf the little drama he would betake himself to that uncertain region off the “beaten track” of tourists seeing Paris, Berlin's BERLIN. TEMPLE to Terpsichore is the lat- A est innovation to arouse the Ger- ns to admiration and in some uarters to gasps and protests. The ““Temple of the Dance” as it is known, was founded by Berthe Trumpy, a pupil of Mary Wigman, and the school c. ed there concerns itself exclusiv futuristic and impressionistic dances. Boys and girls both are taught. The Trumpy motto “To the pure there is only beauty!” and the pupils are instructed to “forget sex” in one great aim to create beauty by dancing. Berlin is a logical place for such a movement to start. Despite the fact that Paris and New York offer a great variety of stage dancers specializing in esthetic and interpretive work, and a generally increasing interest in this mode of ex- pression for entertainment purposes, the younger set of Berlin have long been in- in the development of dancing slong modernistic lines, and before the “Temple” was built there were many large classes devoted to this subject. he athletic dance finds a warm recep- Chicago Opera. and known as Les Halles. By day it is & sec- tion of markets. Peasants troop in from the prov- inces, their wagens piled high with mushrooms and other vegetables, and the place becomes a seething cauldron of perspiring bodies, excited shouts and milling men and women. Wooden shoes clatter up- on the worn flags, bur- den bearers dart to and fro with almost unbeliev- able loads, and the sharp jargon of the auctioneers rattles all over. But when night steals over the city, blackenin streets; when pink an grcen lamps blink and sputter, and when =& high riding moon casts a silvery, evanescent shadow athwart the quar- ter, Les Halles becomes a pant- ing, mysterious monster of sinister promise. Men in corduroy trousers, n2ck- erchiefs and caps lounge silently about. Windows are close-curtained and gen- darmes prowl always in pairs. For here, according to good authority, one finds the famous apache. . Here, one night, strolled Robert Thibaut, young Frenchman. His cap was pulled far forward over his black eyes, his hands were thrust deep into his pockets, his chin was sunk into the folds of the dark scarf twisted about his collarless throat, Head of th Exclusive Photogrephs from Berthe Trumpy's “Temple of the Dance” in Berlin Where Youth ls Given the Metto: tion here. For the last year a wave of athletic and hygienic interest has been sweeping Germany. Its adherents declare that enlightenment along this line has > The Stolen Pearls, - the Pretty Student and---a Finish Nobody Looked and he was lost in thought. For Thibaut needed money. Evidently it did not take him cision, after a while of pac- ing beneath a pale moon he< struck off for the river. Dawn still was some hours away when Thibaut reached the object of his quest, a small family hotel set back in one of the little streets giving upon the Boulevard Raspail, e rue Edgar Quinet. Silently he reconnoitered the situation, moving with a litheness and grace more suitable to a panther than a desper: apache. Assured that he was unobse: he entered the tiny court around which the hotel was built, ducked into the shadows close by the wal started climbing upward, aided by some vines and the rough surface of the brick. He was sure-footed and worked swiftly, reaching a third floor window which was open. With a bound he was over the sill, crouching in the blackness within, d clutching the knife which he held ready for instant, noiseless use. The room was empty as he had expected. Methodically he scooped up the contents of a jewel casket which stood exposed on a dressing table. He did not rifle the place, being content with this loot. A moment later he was out again and cat-footing across the court toward the street and freedom. But here fate took a hand in the pro- ceedings. Two gendarmes were passing. Despite his cunning and bravado Thibaut K s progressed further in Germany than in any other country. German magazines devoted tg these subjects have had aston- ishing success, and the German public has been educated to a point where they cept without comment pictures and pri h discussions on h'flienlc subjects, which problems are met in Germany in the would be censore frankest fashion, and there has been a 4 could not elude their suspleions. They stopped him and were not satisfied wit! his answers to their questions. Accord- ingly he was taken to the local commisa- riat, searched, and the jewels were found. They were valued at $4,000, and included & magnificent set of pearls. Thibaut’s record showed that he had been arrested for similar thefts before. While Thibaut languished in a cell the police traced the jewels and found that they belonged to Miss Margaret Shotwell, an American pianist ltudyini in Paris. The gems were returned to their owner and she was notified of Thibaut's arrest. » Shotwell was in court when he igned for trisl. The man who stolen her jewels stood at the bar of justice, erect and arrogant, waiting for sentence to be passed. He had no hope of mercy from a hated “Yankee million- aire.” But Miss Shotwell had some ides of her own about criminals and criminal justice. She spoke to the magistrate. She told him that she did net think prison would be good for Thibaut. After all, she pointed out, why break an almost per- fect piece of human machinery on the ac- or buried deep in med- ¢ the Apach the Li Shotwell, the American an Who Returned Good for Evil and Taught the Pa B Is Pictured with Hes cruel grill of cold bars? Instead she sued for his release, and g0 eloquent was her plea that Thibaut was given his free- dom. Miss Shotwell's interest did not stop there, however. She questioned the youth- ful apache and learned:that he had an aged mother. Miss Shotwell visited Madame Thibaut and presented her with Startling New Dance Temple Where Boys and Girls Are Asked to Forget “To the pure there is only beauty!" ical journals were they to appear in any ed other country. Birth control and similar Romance Problems of Real Reaplé Engaged---Governor's Widow to the Scion of 18 Emperors THE MAN Cyrus Dimitri Comninos, endant of the em- perors of Byzastium, and mow a Boston medical student. THE WOMAN Mrs. Dorothy Woodman Parkhurst, Governor Parkhurst of Maine. THE PROBLEM widow of l Should members of different races marry? Analyzsed by ELEANOR TOWN. WO very interesting people are plan- ning to marry each other in Boston. One is Mrs. Dorothy Woodman Parkhurst, widow of the late Governor Frederick Hale Parkhurst, of Maine. She was first lady of Maine for less than a month, for Governor Parkhurst, who took office on Janwary 81, 1921, lived onmly twenty-five days after that. That's an example of the irony of fate! But at that, Governor Parkhurst was more fortunate than many of us, for he lived to attain his goal, even if he didn’t live to enjoy it. And how many of us never even get within sight of ours! His young widow has a lot of the things that make life worth living, including beputy. So it is rather startling to hear that her fiance, Cyrus Dimitri Comninos, is a head-waiter! But he is no erdinary head-waiter. He is also a medical student at Boston Uni- versity. The Smyrna disaster in 1922 wiped out the fortune of his family, and he came to the United States to see what he could do about accumulating another. Furthermore, he claims to be a descend- ant of the Byzantine emperors and his In the days when Constantinople was "4 Ameriea But Reyaity Abread. ancestry includes 18 emperors, 19 kings and many independent princes. Truly an unusual heai- Byzantium, and the Crusaders were sight- seeing in the big city, the Comminus fam- ily (they spelled it with & U then) was the whole thing. Their history is as color- ful as that of {he Borgias and the Medici. But they were never too fortunate. No matter how gre. an emperor you are, you can’t dodge all trouble. So far this thirty-one-year old descend- ant of theirs hasn’t been overwhelmed with good luck either. Neither has Mrs. Parkhurst. Both have been faced with the hard necessity of changing their whole lives. And they seem to have come through with flying colors. On the surface, it hardly seems that they can have much in common. But why not? It is a frequently stated fact that the aristocrat of one country finds it easier to understand a foreigner of his own class than a member of a different class in his own land. The same thing holds good for the workers, the mem- bers of the middle class. In every case it's not a question of blood or money, but of habits, of thought. Probably the widow of the Governor of Maine and the de- scendant of Greek emperors have a broad- er basis of understanding than the average engaged couple. Here's wishing them luck! & small amount of money, sufficient to stave off want until the son secured em. plovment. Upon leaving she presented Thibaut with a Christian Science traet, and wished him success in the life which he had promised would now be free from crime. The rest i up to Robert Thibaut. Sex vigorous campaign w. to tear aside the mysterious veils which surround sex in many countries. A concrete evidence of this is noticed by the tourist almost immediately upon reaching German sefl. It is the custom of mixed bathi g n ex- tremely scanty costumes. Many frem other lands profess to b shocked at this costum, pioned by some of the Thought. Thus esthetic dancing will, at least, find fewer barriers in Germany than anywhere else, experts point ou:; and those interested in “The 'rm,lo the Dance” may be free to develop such mediums of self-expression as they see fit, without the fear of censorship, whether official or by the people of the country. It is yet too early for the announcement of any results from the new impression- istic school. Just what lines will be lowed in the development of new danee forms is not known. It is believed likely, however, that the first work will be un- dertaken upon the basis of the rhythms evolved by the late Isadora Duncan and her disciples.