Felix Cherniavsky - Undated Clippings

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Maud Allan 258a 51 2008-1-27.jpg
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Felix Cherniavsky - Undated Clippings

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Maud Allan Research Collection
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All we like sheep ( ii ) Cont . All we like sheep , go to the Palace Theatre . Before ever Miss Maud Alklan had appeared in public we had been assured by the Press ( on the strength of an invitation performance before Pres and Parliament , painters and peers ) thta she was , in the beautiful American phrase " the greatest thing that ever happened . " By the art of the advertisement were we all drawn to the palace . Two monthsa have passed The audiences are as large as ever , and twice as fashionable .... Some of the adulation given to Miss Allan as a dancer ce should be tranſkerrakeko theraugiengęptbirkth9Ks wordeaket . As two to make a work of art , is not the thought of the audience as important as the skill of the performer ? If one is not easily hypnotised , however , one cannot help noticing the rigidity of the new dancer's body and the immobility of her head . One cannot help criticising the movement of the arms movements that seem to be made academically rather than as an expression of emotion , as if the dancer were instructing them a class in the Delsart method rather than translating beautiful sound into beautiful form . .... Sometime Miss Allan seems to obscure or misinterpret what she sets out to reveal . This is notably the case in Rubinstein's " Valse Caprice , " where Miss Allan hugs the ground like a lapwing precisely where the music suggests that she should leap like a hart . Miss Allan is a very esarnest young lady with a sincere conviction of her mission . She dances like a revivalist preacher and makes as many converts . It would be stupid not to admire the character that has brought about so great success . But i $ is just as stupid to mistake this characyter , a

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