The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 2, 1923, Page 9

\ 4 WEDNESDAY, MAY 2 One of the superstitions of the Chinese is LYZs, a ( ‘hinese Grive Weird Dance ‘Dr agon Brinas Good Luck that the dragon ts the symbol of good luck, and in order to insure safe journey across the Pacific, members of the cre of the dent McKinley Wednesday morning gave a dragon on the deck of the ship. Wan Gun, expert Oriental dancer, is inside the big papier mache dragon head, while two other members of the crew are furnishing the music for the act. President their celebrated di before McK just t im for the Orient h he passen gers. Grouped on the top deck, they waited -until the signal hour b¢ fore Mo weird yet beautiful dance would begin Seon the h were startled by th big gong, accompant Nar nois> of ing of of passengers clanging which ship. a drum, 0 big the music starte first beat Wan e dragon as the Ci DRAGON MADE OF PAPIER MACHE n huge one, made of colored and bespangied, s shoulders of the dancer. of pretty colored silk, was so constructed as the body of the msthi hat ts an omen of good luck in the Orient. It is the irnperial family’s badge | and is considered ene of the deified | forces of nature. To that weird music, specially | constructed for the dance, Wan Gun started hig dance. @ lying position. the huge beast wriggied acroes the deck, its head Swinging and its body swaying to and fro. It was looking for Its prey. Then it slowly raised Its head, the eyes Mashing and the jaws mov ing. As the music began to in- cada in Yokaes, the 3 the head badsstd Marvel at Star’s Rise Stenographer Now in Vaudeville *"\a majority of the funds from which Sylvia Clark From stenographer to chorus, from chorus to a speaking part, and then a plunge into vaudeville, where she is now one of the leading sing- ing comedienres, is, in a sentence, the life history of Sylvia Clark, en tertaining little “kinswy klown,” who fy at the Moore theater this week ‘The monotony of pounding a type writer from & a. m. until & p.m, #ix days in the week, hrd come to pall on her when she advertisement for chorus girls, She applied and was accepted. ‘he show war 4 Weber & Wialds’ production, cailed “The Sun Dodgers.” Miss Clark was picked to understudy Miss Bayes. One day Morworth happened to overhear her in, re- ledrea} and recommended her for A spenking part M Clark was born nedr Jerusalem, Her home has been fought over by Gen, Allenby in. his | conquest of Vulestine. She is look fg forward eagerly to the day when | he can return to the Jand of her | Mirth, no longer under the domina- tion of the Turk, ‘ut rvs und liberated country, >) highe From in almont | noticed an} in Jaffa, | once again ay wemed docile begin the dan’ . WAN GUN LEARNED DANCE IN CHINA | Finally a of lettu thrown in the path of the and he began to move tow Slowly be crept up the music played reely hear it nd then head crushed From a crude . he has mas. ter the art until today his dance is a thing of beauty. His gracefuiness| is evident as he moves along the | | deck It hag been years since this dance |haw been seen in Seattle, but hun- | dreds watched it today, many for the| first time, and remarked at Ste) lbeauty and the excellent way it was produced, ‘CHARGE JAPS FIGHT TINDALL Friends Claim Nipponese Funds _ Are Used | Friends of Counciiman Philip Tin-| jdall were aroused Wednes by} what they said was conclusive evi- dence that the Japs are behind the campaign of abuse which has been made against Tindall, who is a can- | didate for re-election to the ?| council. A printed circular hag been broad+| cast over the city, signed by U. G Murphy, who for some years ha [been widely known as the friend and apologist for the Northwest Japanese. In this circular, Murphy | attacks Councilman Tindall on ac: | count of his antiJapanese stand, and demands his defeat for re-elec- tion, Murphy lays stress on a telegram sent to former Secretary of the In- terior Fall by members of the Amer- fean Legion, for which he holds Councilman Tindall and Prosecutor E. D. Colvin responsible, The tele gram criticised Murphy for his al- leged propaganda in behalf of the Japs on the Yakima reservation and lreferred to him as a “paid local jagent of the Japanese.” Members of the Legion reply that }Murphy himself is their authority |for this statement, quoting his tes. timony before the house committee Jon immigration during the hearings jon the Gullck bill, to the effect that is salary was paid “came from Japanese who are not Christians.” | He further’ stated that “a few | Japanese, mostly non-Christians, |guaranteed his support’ Murphy's | testimony is embodied in the printed |report of the hearing. | Friends of Councilman Tindall say this testimony proves that funds |with which not only the Murphy circular, but a mass of other print- ed matter of a highly abusive na- ture are put out against Mr. Tin- dall during the present councilman- je campaign, I4 of Japaneso origin. 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