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Comments on the progress of the modern dance from the common level of entertainment to that of an art. Evidence of the growth of the modern dance from within the past ten years; Movement of modern dancers constructed on physical rhythms and built into phrases and themes; Instruction of dancing conducted not only in dance studios but also in colleges.

In four brief summers Bennington, Vermont, has become an American center nationally known. The Bennington College School of the Dance, with which the author is concerned, in its festival of August 12 to 14, 1937 assembled an audience from Ohio, Utah, California and intermediate points; and will send out 160 new students and teachers this season as far west as Hawaii. Four dancers who were and still are the most Important in the U.S. were chosen to head the teaching staff. They are: Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Hanya Hoim and Charles Weidman. In 1935 the Theater Workshop was added to the general program and in 1936 a department of choreography and one in music for the dance.

This article focuses on various types of dance. The emergence of the dance from extraneous divertissement to an art form in its own light was vaguely felt by dramatic critics during the early presentations of the Diaghilev Ballet, a kind of dance. The delicate filigree of the classic Les Syiphides, a type of dance, gave way to a stronger dramatic form that plunged deeper into human life. But the ballet could not bridge the gap between pure abstract movement and pantomime, and continued to mix the two haphazardly.

Presents an evaluatory note on this journal, considering some of the previously published articles. Discussion of an article by Hamilton Basso on U.S. novelist, Sherwood Anderson; Claim that the said article is a part of English poet and novelist, Abraham Cowley's capital scheme for a series of literary revaluations; Discussion of the personality of the so-claimed emerging U.S. novelist, William Faulkner; Discussion over the article "Fontamara Revisited," by Mario Michele, concerned to the Fascist regime, published in the May 26 issue; Discussion of author Ralph Bates' series of Spanish articles; Details of particular Puritanism of the Counter-Reformation in the so-called new era.

The article focuses on four books "Either Is Love," by Elizabeth Craigin, "A Place in the City," by Howard Fast, "Eve's Doctor," by Signe Toksvig and "The Anointed," by Clyde Brion Davis. "Either Is Love," Craigin professes to contrast and reconcile the two loves of her unnamed "I" one for the man she married in her late thirties, and the other for the girl, Rachel, for whom the has had a previous blind infatuation of which she feels obliged to tell her husband by letter. Directly opposed is Howard Fasts "Place in the City," recalling any number of other novels offering a melodramatic cross-section of one alley in the city.

Reviews several plays. "Race of Life"; "Happy Hypocrite"; "The Passion".

Presents several events in the American entertainment industry. Recognition on the performance of the actors and actresses of the play "A Plant in the Sun"; Exhibition of various photographs, paintings, sculpture, and drawings at the International Building; Number of companies sponsoring the ballet program at the Center Theater.