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Her Work Can Make Girdles Obsolete
By PAQUITA FINE
Dorothy Berea Silver, talented
dancer and choreographer who
now calls Chapel Hill home, be
lieves that everyone should
dance. “It’s healthy and it
would soon put the girdle people
out of business." she claims.
Mrs. Silver knows what she is
talking about. Her stomach is
flat, her legs are shapely, and
she can sail through a dance rou
tine that would leave many of her
young students gasping for
breath.
Choreographer for “Anything
Goes,” which goes into its final
performance this evening at the
YMCA in Durham, Mrs. Silver
staged ten numbers for the mu
sical. “It nearly killed me,” she
said, “but there was the chal
lenge of making the routines dif
ferent while conforming to the
dance styles of the 30's. It was
so funny—l had to teach the dan
cers how to truck, shag, and
even how to do the box-step.”
Although Mrs. Silver is equally
talented in choreographing exhi
bition dances, such as those in
“Anything Goes." or classical
dances, such as ballet, her forte
is modern dance, in which the
entire body is used to express
anything that can be danced.
“Modern dance is a creative
dance—like a poem or a piece
of sculpture,” she said. “It comes
from within the dancer who cre
ates his own movements and
style according to the idea for
the dance. It’s not an ‘alpha
bet’ dance which conforms, but
a personal and simple art.
“Most of the choreography I
do can be defined in two ways:
one is for musical comedy and
I am usually dealing with the
style and period of a certain time:
the steps are not original but I
take some and make up some
to go with the music I'm using.
The other is the art form such
as modern dance and I try to
find original movements to tell
a story or express an idea. Dan
cing is often referred to as the
‘Mother of the Arts,’ and it should
be expressive.”
A native of New Orleans, Dor
othy Berea began dancing when
she was four and she cut her
baby teeth on the most spectac
ular show of all the annual
New Orleans Mardi Gras, which
turns every native into a natur
al-born showman.
“The Mardi Gras is such a big
thing, especially for children,’’
she said. “There's always a
wrangle with parents over cos
tumes and it's unthinkable to
wear the same costume two
years in a row. When I was in
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Dorothy Silver At Work
high school, it was really fun.
As students, we all dressed just
alike pirates and pirateers
or clowns and pierettes end
we rode in trucks behind the pa
rade. At every stop, we'd all ®op
down and dance."
She recalls only one traumatic
experience as a child dancer.
She picked up a tack in her
backside while performing but
claims it “didn't hurt anywhere
as much as having my grand
mother turn me bottom-side-up
to remove it in front of every
one backstage.”
During her high school days,
Dorothy not only sang and danc
ed in a number of Gilbert and
Sullivan operettas, she also ex
celled in swimming, track, and
basketball. On the scholastic
side, she was a good student
and editor of the school maga
zine.
At Randolph-Macon College in
Virginia, she was story editor
of the literary magazine, presi
dent of the dance club, and a
member of the varsity basket
ball team. She also appeared in
productions presented by Stage
Door, the college’s dramatic
club.
At some time during these
years, she became interested
in modern dancing so much
so that she asked for a dance
course under Martha Graham in
New York as her graduation
present. While in New York,
she also took e dance course in
composition from Louis Horst,
and appeared in an operetta and
in two concerts. Asked to take
part in two more concerts in the
Fall, she went home long enough
to persuade her family into ex
tending her “visit” for two more
months.
“Then, in November, Martha
Graham began preparing for a
Broadway production at the Zieg
field Theater and asked me to
be an understudy, so I wrote
home and asked if I could please
stay,” she said. "I took a little
one-and-e-half room apartment
in Greenwich Village, the same
one Margaret Sullivan used dur
ing her Greenwich Village days.
It-.was a great winter but I
almost got malnutrition because
I couldn't cook. I was glad to
go home for the summer when
it was over but, the next year,
I went right back to dance with
Merce Cummingham s company
and with concert groups. That
was the year I also taught at
the Beard School in New Jersey.
I kept receiving offers to teach
from Cornell and other schools
but I didn’t want to leave New
York just then. I felt I had
finally whipped the subway, the
weather, and the city, and I was
just too caught up in what I
was doing.”
She was a member of Mar
tha Graham’s company for three
years, Merce Cummingham’s
company for five years, and
Pearl Lang’s company for two
years. She danced at the Zieg
field and Alvin theaters on
Broadway, in Madison Square
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Garden, and with the City Cen
ter Opera Company in Center
City. She toured all the major
cities in the east, south and mid
west. She also appeared on pro
grams with singers Patricia
Neway and Robert Roundsville,
and actors Richard Boone, Dave
Clark, Rod Steiger and Kim
Stanley. For one summer, she
was a resident artist at the Con
necticutt College for Women.
"Then, one day I got a des
perate call from Sweet Briar
to help them with their Art Fes
tival” she said. Their teacher
had left. That was in January
and I thought it would be a great
change from the New York wea
ther.”
Mrs. Silver didn’t find a great
“change" in the weather but she
did meet the man who was to
change her life. She met Mar
vin Silver, a New York Univer
sity graduate student who was
there to visit a friend. They
were married shortly after he
received his master’s degree.
Between having babies, Mrs. Sil
ver continued to dance and teach
while her husband worked on
his Ph.D in physics. In 1958, the
Silvers moved to Chapel Hill.
Mr. Silver works with the Army
Research Office at Duke Uni
versity. He is al9o on the faculty
at UNC on a program of re
search with graduate students.
Since her arrival in Chapel
Hill, Mrs. Silver has appeared
with the Carolina Playmakers in
“Oklahoma,” “Under Milk
wood." and “Beggar's Opera.”
She also assisted Foster Fitz
simons in “Carousel,” and
“South Pacific.” She staged and
danced the “Can Can” for the
Alliance Francaise Mardi Gras
Ball, did the choreography for
“Murder in the Cathedral" in
Raleigh, and has done TV work
for Channel 4. She has also been
teaching adult classes at the
(Bounds Studio.
Mrs. Silver believes that wom
en should always do something
creative but admits she would
find it impossible without the
support of her family. "My hus
band is a wonderful critic and
he'll tell me when something
isn't right while another person
might tell me it was okay. My
daughter Lin, who is 11, helps
by playing the piano for me.
I can’t play a note.”
The Silvers have two other
children: Paul, 3; and Douglas,
1.
Patricia Metzger
Goes To U. Os R.
Mrs, Patricia P. Metzger of
Chapel Hill, has accepted a posi
tion as an instructor in art his
tory at Westhampton College,
woman’s division of the Univer
sity of Richmond.
Mrs. Metzger, who has been
teaching at the University here
will join the faculty of the Vir
ginia University in September.
Prior to accepting the position
in Richmond, Mrs. Metzger was
curatorial assistant at the North
Carolina Museum of Art, in ad
dition to her teaching duties.
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ANYTHING? Cole Porter’s mus
ical comedy, “Anything Goes,” will be
performed by the Triangle Summer
Theatre at the YWCA auditorium in
Durham in a final showing tonight at
Police Overtime Is 1,500
Hours; More In Prospect
Chapel Hill’s Police Deport
ment is shaking down: foil the pro
spect of continued demonstra
tions. While policemen are still
piling up overtime, Chief W. D.
Blake said “a few” had been
able to take partial vacations.
Last month, midway the dem
onstrations against segregated
businesses in Town, Chief Blake
reported to the Board of Aider
men that the Police Department
had run up a total of 777 hours
of overtime, completely disrupt
ing its normal vacation schedule.
The overtime figure for the
entire force is now approximate
ly double that of a month ago,
about 1,500 hours. The patrol
men now have around 248 hours
8:30 p.m. Above, Charles Hoye as the
Captain and Betty Setzer as Mrs. Har
court are, respectively, amused and
aghast at Public Enemy Number 1,
Moon Face Martin, played by Bill
Shawn.
more. Department officers a
vastly larger amount. Chief
Blake himself has quit keeping
count of his extra hours. “I knew
when I took the job that there
would be a lot of overtime any
way,” he said.
The demonstrations of the past
several weeks have not been as
difficult to handle as the earlier
ones, and fewer patrolmen have
been required. Following resump
tion of the demonstrations after
a one-week moratorium begin
ning July 19, the bulk of the
marches have been made on the
sidewalks. This has lessened
traffic difficulties. Street march
es have also been less difficult
also, because of smaller groups
because of smaller num
bers participating and more ord
erly demonstration procedures,
Chief Blake said. The moratorium
permitted three patrolmen to
take vacations, and others are
being granted partial leave as
conditions permit.
Chief Blake said that on the
average six policemen could han
dle a sidewalk demonstration.
The six includes the chief, the
sergeant and lieutenant on duty,
and one patrolman on the De
partment's traffic scooter.
Eighteen police now cover
street demonstrations, as oppos
ed to almost the full force a
month ago. Two shifts are call
ed in, plus all policemen not
normally assigned to patrol
shifts record clerks, traffic
detectives and desk men.
No plan for compensating po
lice for their overtime has been
arrived at by Town authorities.
The Board of Aldermen has
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Dr. Clifton E. Crandell repre
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masters Club last week at St.
Louis at the 32nd annual con
vention of Toastmasters Inter
national.
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heard proposals that all or a
portion of the overtime be com
pensated by paying patrolmen a
bonus, and that additional pa
trolmen be added to the force to
cut the overtime load in the fu
ture.
The Town presently compen
sates for overtime by granting
an equal amount of time off, but
the total hours are now such
that time off could not be grant
ed without completely normal
schedules.
The matter is expected to be
discussed further by the Aider
men.
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Have a summer/fall buying ball
with the following below cost
items from now till Saturday, Aug.
31st.
69 imported Far Eastern
Batik sport jackets mas
sacred from $35.00 to
way below cost $10.99.
28 imported India Madras
sport jackets slashed
from $35.00 to below
cost $14.99.
35 imported car coats just
in time for Back To
School . . . regularly to
$50.00, at below cost
$19.99.
152 pairs shoes including
$25.00 leather lined cor
dovan loafers and leath
er lined imported Eng
lish shoes, formerly to
$25.00, all at one below
cost price of $9.99.
14 straw hats formerly to
$7.95 at below cost crazy
$.99.
289 short point collar
shirts, fine single needle
tailoring, some short
sleeves, some long
sleeves formerly to
$7.95, all at below cost
$1.99.
422 short sleeve dress
shirts in button - down
and English tab collars,
regularly to $6.95, Frog
strangler price, 1 for
$3.00 or 3 for $8.50.
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58 belts formerly to $3.00
at below cost $.39.
326 skirts, including wool
shetlands and
dacron/cottons, import
ed madras, imported ba
tik, formerly to $22.95,
at below cost $4.99.
397 of our famous Lady
Milton shirts, regularly
to $10.95, now 1 for
$4.00 or 3 for SIO.OO.
Our cupboards are chock full of
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