BENNETT is not satisfied, and
declined an invitation to appear at the Devonshire House Ball last week on
the ground that his achievement does not yet square with his ambition.
Moreover he has decided not to dance in public under his real name, but is
not yet quite certain whether to choose the artistic pseudonym of Ben
Netsky or Cinquecitta--probably the latter.
Above all he is firmly resolved to preserve in his dancing the sympathetic
and humanistic tone of his presentation of life in his books. It will be a
message of hope. He is determined by his gestural artistry and resilient
thistle-downiness to "sanction and fortify the natural human passion for
believing that life can somehow, behind all the miseries and the mysteries,
mean something profoundly worth while." To render justice to his mental and
physical agility is beyond our powers.
We have been driven to culling this memorable sentence from the latest and
most preternaturally precious of his American admirers.
It is only fair to say that as a dancing fictionist Mr.
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