But he was weak, as other men have been weak.
Now you know David's and so do I.
They are the ones who covet other men's wives.
Seeing Beth Sheba, David coveted her.
Yes, Joseph was just a boy.
But what about that big guy, Samson? Bulging biceps are wonderful.
But the steel in muscle can become as fragile as chicken coop wire, unless there's common sense between the ears.
Now witness Samson and his dancing dolly, Delilah.
Over the years, the very reasons for Billy's popular success brought him the most criticism from religious conservatives and political opponents.
But Billy had an answer for everything and knocked him right back.
I know that the charge will at once be made that I am a reverent.
This is generally said by people who don't want to see themselves as God sees them.
They don't like to be told that they are headed straight for a perdition in a language they can understand.
They want a violence and a ladylike proposition, I want to preach so plainly that a man can come from the factory is not professional baseball team in America.
Short and energetic, Billy was a speedy runner.
And whenever he wasn't out chasing fires or driving the undertaker's wagon, he found time to play ball for the team in Marshalltown, the Iowa state champions of It was his ball playing in Marshalltown that brought Billy to the attention of AC Pop Anson, manager of the Chicago White Stockings.
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I'm late.
And came to Monte Carlo.
We stayed in a little cheap hotel and the Diaghilev Company was here and Chiquetti, who was the ballet master of the company and did all the teaching, Diaghilev really believed in Chiquetti.
And I had studied with him in London.
So when I was in Monte Carlo, he formed a class every morning at nine o 'clock.
But Chiquetti invited Diaghilev to come see me in the class.
So he came one day and I was trembling, of course, and shaking and thinking, here's this great man and what am I? Period in my life, my mother called it the sack string and mask period.
And she didn't like it at all because she said, why should I hide my pretty face? Well, anyway, in the early thirties, Ruth brought a new look in choreography to concert stages throughout America.
She abstracted and impersonalized the body into new plastic forms in sacks designed by Noguchi, with strings and sticks by Chelechev and with masks by Remesov.
At the time, critics hailed her solo dance.
Got a few that were really first class.
So this idea worked perfectly for me.
And the one that I like the best is called Revenge, which is based on Il Trovatore.
I went to Paris and asked the Spanish artist Antoni Clavet, who was all the rage, to design the ballet.
And he not only designed five of the most beautiful sets you've ever seen, but he painted them himself.
And the ballet was a big smash hit in Paris.
We did it with the Champs -Élysées company and we were supposed to do it just for three performances and we did it every night.
Last year, I had a 40th anniversary.
I've written an awful lot of books.
And every time I write one and you read something that has been accomplished, you go and you double check and Ruth Page started it.
You were the only American woman to dance with Diaglos Ballet -Rousse.
You were the only American woman to be invited to dance for the coronation of Japan's emperor, Hirohito.
You were the first American to commission dances from George Balanchine.
And back home, you staged the first all -black American ballet and also the first jazz ballet.
You were also the first American to be a danseurs at the Metropolitan Opera.
You were the first to give Agnes Demille the opportunity to present her work under professional management.
And you were the first to commission and produce the ballet by Aaron Copeland.
And you were the one to present Rudolf Nureyev in his American stage debut.
Being first means being original and Ruthie, you certainly are an American original.
We don't think of Ruth as the choreographer.
She does the whole bit.
Well, the Chicago street will be getting a new name in honor of Chicago's first lady of dance, a stretch of Delaware Place on the north side will now be called Ruth Page Place.
The street sign was one of the birthday presents given by friends and admirers on Page's 88th birthday.
How does it feel to be 88 today? Just like it feels to be 16.
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