Bankers, poets, conductors and even femmes fatales have shown that careers need not be over at 60. Last week the fact was emphasized again by two elderly ladies who kicked up their heels with the enthusiasm of dancers a third their age. ΒΆ In the Hollywood Bowl Ruth St. Denis, grandmother of the modern dance, unveiled her first new production since 1934, The Ballet of Light, set to Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy. Surrounded by nine young men and women in short, Romanesque costumes, "Miss Ruth," 74, impersonated the spirit of light, moving majestically in yards of billowing silk, her hands articulate,...
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