Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1900s 2

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1900s 2

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MAUD ALLAN'S INT H H Your next rou is to the familiar , rather too familiar , tune of Mendelssohn's ' Spring Song , the dream figure Hitting hither and thither alle gretto grazioso in pursuit of an imaginary butter fly . This is , of course , no time for languorou : melancholy ; the girl's movements are brisk and la ruches backward and for California Girl Applies Her Art to Music of Mendelssohn and Chopin tation seems destined to become known as cone Stalt of Jassic dancers . It is only a imme barefooted Isidora Duncan , hail ing from the Gulden West , created a sensation Loco cities , more especially in Germany , by an inte borean interpretations of the music i thi Hot womposers , and since she withdrew tem perbu nouce to teachi lutle Gemman pirls grucelul at her school in the Grune Weid , Berlin , Malawendolyn Allan , likewise Calorniau has give forward as it similar e nenit the art , though developing her theo along individual lines . intily , Miss Allan has extendid ber Luro pentrumpli to London , where , at the Palace Talee ollutieties , she ba been ilustrating in Tas pases of the dance the moud and mean Chopin valses and Mendelssohn " Soligs Martie ut lords , " the " Funeral March " from LB Flat Minor Sonata and th · Vision ame " that bus won her her greatest popu A. B. Walkley , writing in the London Is thu describes the " dream picures " she ward like ' Camilia , shims along ihe plain . Now she is on tiptoe , with arms outstretched , now swiftly bending to the ground , now'settling ' for a moment like the butterfly she pursues - in short , she gives you the quintessence of the pa pilionaceous . This you count a day dream . “ But the dancer has reserved her master stroke for the last . This Vision of Salomé ' has not only made her famous , but has so haunting a fascination that many people cannot keep away from it and return to the Palace to see it night after night . To the strains of weird Oriental music Salomé slowly descends the palace steps . There are jewels on her neck and bosom , and she wears a tunic of black gauze . Thir dancing as Salomé , though Eastern in spirit through and through , is absolutely without the slightest sug gestion of the vulgarities so familiar to the tourist in Cairo or Tangier . She achieves the distinc tion we admit it risks being a nice distinction , but she achieves it - between the lascivious and the voluptuous . “ Salomé dances as one lascinated , slowly ad vancing toward the head and swiftly receding from it , gradually drawing nearer and rearer , then falling upon hands and knees and gloating , half savagely , half amorously , over it then poun cing upon it like a hawl upon its prey . There after she dances fear , a quivering , shuddering dance , and finally collapses , a huddled but still graceful , still beautiful- mass . And there you have the secret of her art , heer beauty , every Tine in it , every rhythm , every movement , every posture , every pause is beautiful . " . holis Allan's ' turn'arrives , ai quar his point , there is the sudden stle that be hent espectation . The stage is unfur . medvelar a lew pedestals for plumbeaux , and La mund there ar plain velvet curtains of NHÀ HÀNG ( 11 . Then the violin buwsglide softly thuhet struins of Chopin's Valse in A Minor , 14 No2 and the dream begins , The nale i the dream is a young girl , you perceive her that is to say , to be a giri when you wake To , but to your dreaming sense she is a nymph Tanagra statuette . Timidly she slips through De carins , and then appears to be drawn un ( as cously into movement by the music , Snear lightlassic drapery that seems not elchio Jothe her as to serve as ambient ain herein the floats Hier limbs and feet are bare : Shes and supple lumts , bet thai seom rather to cares the gwi dan to be supported by it . Barnis war it is a wave in the true as that the lurm , a upple runs along them , sly dying out at the fingertips . Her hands wave something of the leaf or petal about them , key opening and tolding or upon Il re they expressa pensive on holy , the vague sad reverie of Chopin's Mus . Amer . April 25 , 1908 . curving back But the minor valse , a : every one knows , umes into the relatie major and the trai's fait changes and expresses por and her hand and hunt and all exprs hepe and in moment , however , for again EPO see the joy fading out of the girl's face and leaving her arms and hands , and she dances as one oppressed , falling at last into a wan despair . The music ceases ; the dancer is quite still , with heart bowed over hands that seem lifeless ; then she glides quietly through the curtain and you