The most beautiful man in the world has been found. According to spectators at recent outdoor pageants near Boston, Mass., he is William Alfred Williams, of Pittsburgh, Harvard, ’15, who has delighted by his esthetic dancing.
He performs bare-legged, very bare-legged, in fact. The only one compared to him is Paul Swan, a New York bare-legged dancer, but Williams is rated more Adonis-like. Experts say he has a perfect masculine profile.
Mayor Curley, of Boston, prevented bare-legged dancing on the stage in Boston during the winter, but this spring pageants with bare-legged dancing by both sexes have been given on a number of estates of wealthy folk in and about Boston. Williams has been a leading figure in all of them. His costume surely has been suited to the most tropiclike day. The girls have been bare-legged, and that’s about all, but Williams goes much farther than that.
A reporter found him bare-footed, bare-legged, and bare-headed, practicing in the back yard of Miss Virginia Tanner, who directs the pageant, and dances bare-legged duets with Williams. He said he had been dancing a year and a half and was thinking of adopting it as a profession after graduating from college. This was his defense:
“The attitude of the body, in dances, is the most graceful and artistic way of telling a story.”
Rooster is Phenom; It Crows Backward.
Jacob Newman, a clothier, living in Washington Street, Tarrytown, N. Y., owns a rooster that crows backward. He has another rooster that crows naturally. The other day, as two strangers were walking by Mr. Newman’s yard, the natural rooster crowed, and the other answered.
“Did you ever hear such an echo?” said one of the[Pg 62] men. “It’s backward.” Then they looked over the fence and heard one rooster crow and the freak rooster answer.
Mr. Newman, who was in the yard, explained that the rooster crowed backward, and it had always puzzled him.