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Originally Posted by GaylordWilshire
According to the Times, the Gishes rented "Denishawn" in the fall of 1915 while Ruth was on tour. The paper anticipated "lawn parties and pink teas galore."
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I can only imagine.
St. Denis’ biographer Suzanne Shelton describes their time there as idyllic. “After classes the students splashed in the estate swimming pool then ate their meals on wooden tables in the nearby rose arbor.”
But notes that the neighbors apparently weren't so keen on all the bohemian doings at #600. “Their worst suspicions were confirmed one afternoon when a dozen barefoot young ladies, their bathing suits barely covered by kimonos, raced from the school grounds into the streets in hot pursuit of Piadh Morh, Denishawn’s resident peacock.”