Felix Cherniavsky - Clippings 1900s 1

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Felix Cherniavsky - Clippings 1900s 1

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Lp . Donts ABOUT PEOPLE • P ! Casediaa Dancer la England . March 21.1908 THE HE interest in things Canadian which exists in Eng land has no more curious and perhaps no more ac curate manifestation than in the fact that even performers in the music halls find it worth while to proclaim their Canadian birth . A few years ago it sufficed to be an American . Now the man or woman of Canadian birth is careful to let the difference be known . In England the newspapers treat the music halls with greater critical seriousness than obtains on this continent , and the reader of English journals not infrequently runs across a piece of good writing about some " turn " that would be dismissed with a line in a vaudeville notice on this side of the wat er . They also go into the back history of the performers , and it is to this fact that we learn that a Miss Maud Al len , appearing at the Palace Theatre , who has become a fad among the better classes of playgoers , is a Canadian by birth . Miss Allen is an artist in stage movement and first made a hit on the continent of Europe . In the subtle representation of emotion , we are told , in the portrayal of the passion of sound , in the dance , interpretation of poetry and song , she is the personification of grace . We also learn that she has a charm of her own rare among stage performers . She gives life to the classical melodies of Chopin , Mendelssohn and Rubenstein in her mode of dancing . It is stated that though a Canadian by birth Miss Allen spent her early years in San Francisco , and later learned " the poetry of motion " in Berlin , where she also studied music , and gained the highest diploma at the Conserva toire . As a dancer she created her own " school . " She studied old Greek and Assyrian.manuscripts and tablets and learned all she could of ancient dance lore until she had identified herself with the movements of the great past . Perhaps some reader can inform us from what part of Canada this phenomenal young woman comes . Salendar Night Maria Dressler a Canadian . M ing a great hit in London . Miss Marie Dressler seems to have established herself there as a permanent favorite , and her earnings are nearly as high as those of anyone , except the great musical artists . SATURDAY Night can claim the credit of having published the first portrait of Marie Dressler which ever appeared in print . This was in 1891 , before she was at all known and before she had even made a New York appearance . Old residents of Ontario in the sixties and seventies will , some of them , remember an old German singing teach er , Prof. Koerber , who lived in various towns and taught many of the elder generation to warble at exceedingly . low rates . Port Hope , Chatham and Guelph were some of the towns where he resided for considerable periods . It is of this Prof. Koerber , who left , a trail of melody through the province and amused many with his teutonic . drollery , that Marie Dressler , whose real name is Liela Koerber , is a daughter . Marie Dressler went on the stage less than twenty . years ago as a young girl in a repertoire opera company , travelling in the Western Statea nd struggled along learn ing the rudiments of the business until she was given a chance to get into New York , in the forces of Lillian Russell . Her ' sudden jump to fame as perhape the drol lest woman on the American stage took place ten or fwelve years ago . Her remarkable gift lies in her abil ity to make the driet and gravest matter funny by a sud " twist of expression . Thua in reciting Lytton's stiff astie translation of Schiller's ballad . " The Gover da makea the dull lines excruciatingdy funny by antonalne

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