Felix Cherniavsky - Clippings 1900s 1

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Felix Cherniavsky - Clippings 1900s 1

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remember this pelan as she performed the spring Pall Mall Gazette Marches opening pampraph ) ( ) other planos , dom form pacsy refu phrases inchide Lee lo It is to be regretted that so inuch extravagant writ . is the performed the Spring ing should have been circulated in connection with the appearance of Miss Maud Allan , the dancer , at the song and the Valdo and , perhaps , most of all as she appeared when , in response to the applause , ' she came Palace Theatre . Born in Toronto , we are told that she beiore the curtain and modesty bowed her thanks . She ** belongs to a land where the fires of the French tem- strikes one as a rather interestisse personality , whose perament glow ardently through the icy purity of the work it would to a pity to vulgaris by extravagant People of Snow . " . And we are also told a good deal description and , as bas been said , her bagement of hér arms and hands is extraordinarily beautifun more , calculated only to have the effect of making the young lady appear rather ridiculous . This , his we have said , is a pity ; for , when she makes her first public F appearance on Monday evening next , the audience will .. 1908 unless we are much'mistaken , recognise a very genuine talent . She gave her entertainment yesterday alter noon before a large company of invited guests ; and any lack of enthusiasm displayed may , we think , be put down , to the absurd expectations held out and the sin gular picture painted of her in a certain circular . A lady of whom we are told that she has ransacked the shrines of plastic Beauty and worshipped humbly and prayerfully , before the Art of the Universell unust , be prepared for a little coldness of scrutiny from an English audience.iN Misa Allan dances to classic music , principally that of Chopit ; and one of her most dramatic performances is given tid the strains of the far - famed Funeral Xiarch . Draped and hooded in sombre muslins , she seeks to express by her movements the emotions conveyed by the music ; and , upon the whole , one may say that there is a good deal of Harmony between her performance and the melody . In agayer mood she gives a perfectly delightful dance to the music of Mendelssohn's Spring Song = as joyous a thing as London has seen . To a Rubinstein Valse " ( aprice her novements are wilder , * more abandoned , always very , expressive ; and there is equal interest in her interpretation of one of Chopin's Valses , and of one of his Mazurka's . She dances with bare feet , which , one would say , is rather a handicap to her than otherwise . Her Arms , also , are bare ; and the most remarkable feature of her whole performance is the really exquisite use she makes of them and of her hands . We can recall no dabicer who has made arms and hands so expressive and sd fascinating . Her face is a handsome one , with a pleasant express sion , and of quite the English type ; but for her last dance , which she calls The Vision of Salome , " and which she apparently regards as her chef d'auvre , she wears a very unbecoming black wigt , and contorts her features into a variety of more or less exaggerated ex pressions , law of which are beautiful . This is presented as the dance of Herodias , which won as its reward the head of John the Baptist , and towards the end of it the head appears , as in a vision ; resultiog in divers disagree able / transports on the part of the dancer , This taka place to music of an Eastern colour ; and the whole thing se undeniably as clever as it is sensational ; but , for our own part , we took but little pleasure in it , and prefer to > $

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