This collection consists of an audio tape of a lecture given by Ruth St. Denis at California State University at Los Angeles, May 22, 1964, and a typed transcript of the tape (transcribed by University Archives staff). Ruth St. Denis was 85 years old at the time this lecture was given. Topics discussed in the lecture include her slogan, "Wisdom comes dancing;" Isadora Duncan; Martha Graham; Margareta Wallmann; the Mary Wigman School of Dance; her Asian studies and how they affected her style of dance; her center on Cahuenga Boulevard; education; spiritualism; Mary Baker Eddy; modern dance in America; and women's rights.