Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 1

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 1

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56 NO Apal bella " Take me to your hearts , she ended , with the catching breath that just preceded a burst of tears . I know you have , but , oh , keep me there " .. See also Toon Tack AMBLINGS AND WRITHINGS By , KA's Dancin Edward o ' Day But the frankly carping school also vocal in the person of the Argonaut's business manager , George L. Shoals , who compared her unfavorably with the Nautch girls of the East and the Hawaiian hula dancers and weighted his dia tribe with invective against dance " interpreters " of symphonic music in general . The difficult Mr. Shoals wrote in the Argonaut of April 16 , 1910 : " Seriously , there is little to be said in favor of this sort of stage novelty . It has even less to commend it than the aesthetic craze of a quarter - century ago , in which Oscar Wilde was so prominent à figure , and which Gilbert sat irized and burlesqued in ' Patience . ! Some of the lines in that comic inevitably recalled by those who have seen Miss Allan and read the gush of her emotional admirers : ? purely fragrant , ' learnestly precious ! and opera arte What time the poet hath hymned The writhing maid , lithe limbed , Quivering on amaranthine asphodel . " Surely it is sufficient to say that Miss Allan poses picturesquely and moves gracefully , that her costume in the numbers so far given is above criticism that is not captious , if it pleases the wearer . But to call her work interpretation of music that was written without thought of the dance , a revelation to those who really know good music , is as far removed from sound judge ment as the ecstasy of lingering looks on lan guid lillies so earnestly aspired to by the wilde followers . i It is not believable that the rising generation will be taught to find the only true expression of one of Mendelssohn's songs without words ! in the amblings and writhings of a barefoot girl on a green - curtained stage . 12 s . Er theke Research a S. Go of Calt