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In the summer of in the parlor of Mrs William Vaughn Moody	A
and in the following winter in the Chicago Little Theatre	B
under the auspices of Poetry A Magazine of Verse and in Mandel Hall	C
the University of Chicago under the auspices of the Senior Class	D
these Poem Games were presented Miss Eleanor Dougherty	A
was the dancer throughout The entire undertaking developed	E
through the generous cooperation and advice of Mrs William Vaughn Moody	A
The writer is exceedingly grateful to Mrs Moody and all concerned	F
for making place for the idea Now comes the test of its vitality	A
Can it go on in the absence of its initiators	G
	-
Mr Lewellyn Jones of the Chicago Evening Post announced the affair	H
as a rhythmic picnic Mr Maurice Browne of the Chicago Little Theatre	B
said Miss Dougherty was at the beginning of the old Greek Tragic Dance	I
Somewhere between lies the accomplishment	J
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In the Congo volume as is indicated in the margins	K
the meaning of a few of the verses is aided by chanting	L
In the Poem Games the English word is still first in importance	M
the dancer comes second the chanter third The marginal directions	K
of King Solomon indicate the spirit in which all the pantomime was developed	E
Miss Dougherty designed her own costumes and worked out	N
her own stage business for King Solomon The Potatoes' Dance	I
The King of Yellow Butterflies and Aladdin and the Jinn The Congo page	O
In the last 'I am your slave ' said the Jinn was repeated four times	P
at the end of each stanza	Q
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The Poem Game idea was first indorsed in the Wellesley kindergarten	R
by the children They improvised pantomime and dance for the Potatoes' Dance	I
while the writer chanted it and while Professor Hamilton C Macdougall	S
of the Wellesley musical department followed on the piano	T
the outline of the jingle Later Professor Macdougall very kindly wrote down	U
his piano rendition A study of this transcript helps to confirm the idea	Q
that when the cadences of a bit of verse are a little exaggerated	V
they are tunes yet of a truth they are tunes which can be	A
but vaguely recorded by notation or expressed by an instrument	J
The author of this book is now against instrumental music	W
in this type of work It blurs the English	X
	-
Professor Macdougall has in various conversations helped the author	B
toward a Poem Game theory He agrees that neither the dancing	L
nor the chanting nor any other thing should be allowed to run away	Y
with the original intention of the words The chanting should not be carried	Z
to the point where it seeks to rival conventional musical composition	R
The dancer should be subordinated to the natural rhythms of English speech	A2
and not attempt to incorporate bodily all the precedents	B2
of professional dancing	L
	-
Speaking generally poetic ideas can be conveyed word by word	C2
faster than musical feeling The repetitions in the Poem Games	D2
are to keep the singing the dancing and the ideas at one pace	E2
The repetitions may be varied according to the necessities	F2
of the individual dancer Dancing is slower than poetry and faster than music	W
in developing the same thoughts In folk dances and vaudeville	G2
the verse music and dancing are on so simple a basis the time elements	B2
can be easily combined Likewise the rhythms and the other elements	B2
	-
Miss Dougherty is particularly illustrative in her pantomime	H2
but there were many verses she looked over and rejected	I2
because they could not be rendered without blurring the original intent	J2
Possibly every poem in the world has its dancer somewhere waiting	L
who can dance but that one poem Certainly those poems would be	A
most successful in games where the tone color is so close to the meaning	L
that any exaggeration of that color by dancing and chanting	L
only makes the story clearer The writer would like to see some one try	K2
Dryden's Alexander's Feast or Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon	R
Certainly in those poems the decorative rhythm and the meaning	L
are absolutely one	R
	-
With no dancing evolutions the author of this book	L2
has chanted John Brown and King Solomon for the last two years	M2
for many audiences It took but a minute to teach the people the responses	N2
As a rule they had no advance notice they were going to sing	L
The versifier sang the parts of the King and Queen in turn	R
and found each audience perfectly willing to be the oxen the sweethearts	O2
the swans the sons the shepherds etc	Q
	-
A year ago the writer had the honor of chanting for	P2
the Florence Fleming Noyes school of dancers In one short evening	L
they made the first section of the Congo into an incantation	R
the King Solomon into an extraordinarily graceful series of tableaus	O2
and the Potatoes' Dance into a veritable whirlwind	Q2
Later came the more elaborately prepared Chicago experiment	J
	-
In the King of Yellow Butterflies and the Potatoes' Dance	O2
Miss Dougherty occupied the entire eye of the audience and interpreted	V
while the versifier chanted the poems as a semi invisible orchestra	Q
by the side of the curtain For Aladdin and for King Solomon	R
Miss Dougherty and the writer divided the stage between them	R2
but the author was little more than the orchestra The main intention	R
was carried out which was to combine the work of the dancer	B
with the words of the production and the responses of the audience	O2
	-
The present rhymer has no ambitions as a stage manager	B
The Poem Game idea in its rhythmic picnic stage is recommended to amateurs	O2
its further development to be on their own initiative	S2
Informal parties might divide into groups of dancers and groups of chanters	O2
The whole might be worked out in the spirit in which	T2
children play King William was King James' Son London Bridge	U2
or As We Go Round the Mulberry Bush And the author of this book	L2
would certainly welcome the tragic dance if Miss Dougherty	A
will gather a company about her and go forward using any acceptable poems	O2
new or old Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon is perhaps	O2
the most literal and rhythmic example of the idea we have in English	X
though it may not be available when tried out	N
	-
The main revolution necessary for dancing improvisers	O2
who would go a longer way with the Poem Game idea	Q
is to shake off the Isadora Duncan and the Russian precedents for a while	V2
and abolish the orchestra and piano replacing all these	O2
with the natural meaning and cadences of English speech	A2
The work would come closer to acting than dancing is now conceived	W2

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