Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 1

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 1

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V March 27 , 1910 NS - Stage - Door Gossip A of O DOUBT a certain class whioh looks for morbid or sensational stimulation is going to be great ly disappointed in the art of Maud Allan , who is soon to eppear here in a series of interpretative dances at the Gerrick Theater , So far in her tour the United States critical com 1 . has united to declare her a . charming exponent of the beautiful in motion , and little objection has been raised to her on the score of impro priety . Indeed , her imitators have vul garized her ideas in their own per formances to such an extent that the delicacy and freshness of her efforts are received with a sense of pleasant surprise , Her interpretations are various and range from a moving suggestion of Mendelsohn's " Spring Song to the somber sway 01 Chopin's " Marche Funebre , " and the quaint and curious intricacies of Grieg's " Peer Gynt " suite . Something of the mood in which Miss Allan herself would like to be appreciated is contained in a booklet which she has issued , of which the following is an extract : * If Maud Allan is an artist , and an artist in a new kind of work , she needs interpretation . Most people can admire in a vague , uncritical fashion , although they may find themselves hard put to it to give reasons for the faith that is in them . But admiration of which , indeed , Miss Maud Allan has had a full share is not necessarily comprehension . The thousands · and thousands of spectators , who have seen Miss Allan dance at the Palace Thea ter , have understood in some nebulous way that she brings them something ney and rare and strange , and have , rewarded her etforts with unstinted ap plause . But they do not know , per haps , why they admire , and they be come speechless in argument against the assaults of those who are quick to fault . For instance , how many of have but the faintest idea what dancer is aiming at in " The Vision of Salome ? " It is not the actual dance executed before Herod by Salome . It is a repetition of it in half - conscious memory . After all the ghastly business has been concluded , the girl , left alone , repeats to herself in tragic reverie all the morbid excitements of an un forgetable incident . Is the head of the Baptist a real head ? Of course , it is not ; it is part of her vision , called up in thought , alternately repelling and attracting her as her imagination goes through once more each moment of the terrible tragedy . And if a mistake occurs in this instance , confusing the " vision " of Salome with the actual dance , it is easy to see how an equal misapprehension exists as to the gen eral.character of Miss Allan's dancing . NEW anecdote concerning Todwin into a distorted , unnatural and unnec Booth and his father , the elder essarily clever attitude to receive it , and then revenge their self - inflicted Booth ,, was recently related by discomfort on me by accusing me of Otis Skinner , who will soon appear lo- their own folly . I am sorry for them , cally . Skinner was for several years but I can't help them . " associated professionally with Edwin He had no dificulty with the Lord Booth , playing opposite roles to him Chamberlain . " After a prolonged scru tiny he passed the manuscript like a which Lawrence Barrett had previously lamb . I can't imagine what he was enacted during their joint co - starring thinking about . Probably he didn't un tour . It was in fact Lawrence Barrett derstand it . Or , perhaps , the announce who recommended Skinner to Booth . inent the 275th performance of Says Skinner : " One day in a chat with Mrs. Warren's Profession ' in Berlin has broken his once buoyant spirit . " the great actor behind the scenes dur . ' William Archer , the well - known ing an off - stage interval , I questioned critie , however , doesn't like the play him about the art of his famous ' father quite so well as Shaw . He writes : and asked him if he could describe to " When all said and dorre , or , me in what manner his own style of rather , when all is said , for nothing , of acting differed from that of the elder course , is done we have simply spent Booth . ' He , answered me laconically thres hours in an immensely diverting with the two words : ‘ By quietness . lunatic asylum . " Later on he resumed the subject , de claring : " I think that I act more quiet- The late Joseph Jefferson's home at ly than did my father . The old senool Buzzards Bay will be sold . * It must of aeting was much noister than it is go , " says Mrs. Jefferson .. " It makes me now , and effects were more vehement- unhappy to'live there since my hus ly obtained . " " band's death . Instead of being com Skinner himself testifies to having forted by the reminders of him , I am noted a steadily increasing trend of made miserable by them . " the actor's art toward a thoroughly natural and quiet style of reading and Konrad Nies , who ranks among the interpretation . " I doubt if Edwin For . rest's loud declamatory style would ap- give a recital Monday night in Kohler first . of German - American poets , will peal to audiences of today . Of course , & Chase Hall . His selections will be the probability is that he would , if alive today , achieve the same quſet , those of the giant figures in German from his own works as well as from but highly dramatic effects that are literature , now expected and demanded by a more play - cultured publici Rumor has it that this will be the last year of the theatrical association of The receipts of " Chantecler " are run- E. H. Sothern and Miss Julia Marlowe . ning to $ 3000 a night in Paris . Rostand Miss Marlowe has just announced that gets a . tenth , which ought to console she will devote , her entire future to the him for the heroic cuts he has had to interpretation of Shakespeare's hero make in the dialogue . ines , a somewhat arbitrary restriction which Sothern , evidently , will not sup The London Era relates that a rich port by confining himself to Shakes " London stock broker was seen leaving peare alone . the Haymarket Theater a few days ago after 9 : matinee of Maeterlinck's From all accounts , the benent mat " The Blue Bird . " " I never expected to inee to be held at the Van Ness The . see you here , ' said a friend who was ater on the afternoon of Sunday , April passing by . " You're the last eprsion in 3d , will prove one of the most success the world I should think would care for ful affairs of its kind . The desire of a children's play . " " It's the most won those who are undertaking this project derful play I've seen in my life , " said is to secure a sum of money which the stock broker . " It's made me be will be donated as a memoriál contri lieve I've got a soul . " bution to the Bush - street Synagogue and Eternal Home Cemetery Associa Frederic Belasco is en route to New Columbia , is devoting much time and tion . Charles David , treasurer of the York via Portland and Seattle , and while securing plays for next season joins with the others in presaging energy toward the good cause , and he in the Alcazar he will incidentally per much success for 1t . fect arrangements for putting out sev . The programme eral road companies in arranged for includes the revival of two his brother the David's notable successes , among them popular plays - The Taming of " The Girl of the Golden West , " " The Shrew " and the one - act drama , " The Old Guard . " Rose of the Rancho , " and " The Heart Paul Gerson , after eight of Maryland , " none of which has ever will make his reappearance in the role years of retirement from the stage , been presented in the smaller towns and cities of the Pacific Coast . of Petruchio in the Shakespearean com edy , and will also be seen as Old Hav ersack in The Old Guard . " George Bernard Shaw talks almost as much about his plays as he does in Will M , Cressy and Blanche Dayne them , and , incidentally , the habit makes him the champion amateur advertiser appear next month at the Orpheum in England , Rostand , of course , holds the record in France . Speaking of his The Church of the Transfiguration , latest play , " Mesalliance , " Shaw dis- New York , affectionately known among claims that the title is a French word , the players as " The Little . Church but declares it a naturalized English Around the Corner , " celebrated its six word . He then says : tieth anniversary last Sunday . " Note also that the play , like all my “ For sixty years , " said Rev. Dean plays , and like all the best modern Robbins in his sermon , " these doors English plays , is not based on the con - have been opened and for sixty years ventions of the French theater or the this has been a school of freedom , a Italian opera , but on the familiar reali- school , where men , women and children ties of English life . No doubt a cer- have learned that freedom is alone tain number of foolish people will get found in the city of God . " . Is she a dancer at all ? Many critics will asseverate that she is not . Assur edly she is not a dancer of the ballet type , and knows nothing of the highly technical and wholly artificial training of the Italian schools . But ballet danc ing ' is a piece of soulless . technique , in which the most accomplished and most dificult movements of a trained fig . urantee correspond to few or none of our thoughts - correspond , in fact , to nothing in heaven or earth , except the recognized chess pattern scheme of a conventional ballet master . Miss Allan is certainly not a dancer of this kind . " 18

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