1938-12-10 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 10, 1938

WOMAN GLOBE-TROTTER SEES STRANGE EXAMPLES OF PRIMITIVE DANCING

Dark-eyed Mrs. Carl Werntz, now send among savage peoples who had in London, doesn't dance, Says she's never before seen a white woman, "a wall-flower" in ball-rooms, writes a correspondent. but-

This globe-trotting American beauty has probably forgotten more about dancing than even Fred As- taire ever knew!

She's seen the famous Fan Dan- cers of Fiji; the Pigeon Dancers of the Veiled Islands of the Solomons; the Whirling Kandyan Dancers in the Temple of the Tooth at Kandy; the Zulu Tribesmen's War Drums Dance; the Pigmy Warriors' Ballet and hundreds of others strange and beautiful examples of primitive and civilised man's response to the urge for rhythmic expression.

Wife of Carl Werntz, famous American artist whose hobby is tra- velling the world, wandering in re- mote islands and mainlands along the Equator, sketching queer tribal dances, Mrs. Werntz has hobnobbed with cannibals, lived for weeks on

Widespread Plot Against Hitler

A WIDESPREAD PLOT TO AS-

SASSINATE HERR HITLER AND OTHER NAZI LEADERS IS NOW BEING INVESTIGATED BY THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNAL.

ACROSS THE SAHARA "With Carl, I have 'bussed, camelled and elephanted across the Sahara," she told me.

"We

have crossed the French Sudan and Nigeria, and worked in Gao, Kano and Marua, three of the Dark Continent's largest native cities.

"I have seen the dances that pre- cere the weddings of native chiefs, the tribal rites that attend-the- honeymoon nights of young warriors in the Belgian Congo, and many other queer sights.

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"I think it is because I have seen how divinely these simple peoples dance that I don't care to join in what is called modern'

dancing."

ballroom

In Formosa, Mrs. Werntz met a number of young women who look- ed hideously ugly, because they all seemed to have moustaches sprout- ing from their upper lips,

RAVISHING BEAUTIES "I saw the same women a little later" she said, "and they were ravishingly beautiful. The 'moust- aches' had merely been painted upon their mouths by their hus- bands, so that other men, looking upon them, would pass along quick- ly!".

Mr. Werntz; president-founder of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, is showing some of his sketches of Herr Ernst Niekisch, the well-world dances-he calls them "sixty known author and journalist, and 20'on-the-spot' pictures"-at other people will be brought to trial; Walker Galleries in London's Bond 50 others who played a minor part Street. in the conspiracy have a already been sentenced by lower courts.

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"My wife is the best pal. a man could ever have on jobs like mine," he said. "She's never afraid, though she's been in some tough spots with

More than 200 witnesses have been examined by members of the Tribunal, who have travelled all over me." Germany in their efforts to unravel the plot and to visit places where weapons and explosives have been discovered. The accused include people who formerly belonged to par- ties of the Right as well as Left- Wingers. It is expected that most of them will be sentenced to death.

The accused are being kept care- fully segregated from other prison- ers in the Moabit Psison, Berlin. They are regarded as the most dan- gerous band of conspirators ever un- masked in Nazi Germany,

terdorist

The existense of this group, to which several hundred persons are believed to have belong- ed, was discovered by the Reich Se- curity Service.

This is the or- ganisation to which Herr Hitler's personal safety is entrusted.-

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It has a network covering whole of Germany. Specially brain- ed men of the Nazi Guard and the Storm Troops are enrolled in the service, which is believed to more than 7,000 members.

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