Music: Shawn's Way

When Dancer Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis chose separate ways three years ago, there ended a record partnership which even the fluttering world of the dance thought never to see dissolved. They had married 18 years before, when Ted Shawn had scarcely forsaken his plan to become a Methodist minister. When they separated the famed Denishawn School went out of existence. Now Ruth St. Denis heads a Society for the Spiritual Arts, keeps a ''temple studio" and dances abstractly in churches (TIME, Dec. 31). Ted Shawn sails for England this week with nine...

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