Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 1

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 1

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C *** MISS MAUD ALLAN , klaily be reprod A RHAPSODY ON THE DANCER'S LicCharm . Sat. Taking у . " Novelty touching the keys of public humour can easily create a sensation , but novelty unaided can seldom renew her triumphs . There must be something of genius , some strain or element of natural spontaneity to hold public enthusiasms con stant and undeviating in their allegiance . " The foregoing sentences appeared in the DAILY GRAPHIC of February 13th , 1909 , on the occasion of Maud Allan's second season at the Palace the very ache of beauty , until our eyes are swathed in mist . That is why Maud Allan comes to us , breaks upon us , with the poignant freshness of an April morning . Her dancing translates the spirit of youth into us all . It has all the lyrical delight sake of living , and it has all the pitiful sadness that can never be associated with the mellow season of old age . There is no more pathetio thing on the English stage than the finish of a Maud Allan dance . It is a reluctant confession that all things are ephemeral in their durability . While she dances it appears that there can be no end . Every movement is spontaneous and inevit able . We do not look at one another and hazard a guess as to whether she is growing tired or speculate as to how this or that movement is per formed . We exist for the moment in the moment , We are absorbed in the realisation of a loveliness that is in most of us little more than an inarticulate sense , And then the dance dies out in a phase of tragie , reluctance , and we are left with the com monplace thought tingling in our minds that nothing is eternal save eternity . Among the new dances introduced by Miss Allan yesterday afternoon at the Palace Theatre nothing was more beautiful than the “ Danse Sacrée et Profane , " by Claude Debussy . This is one of the most moving things Miss Allan has yet done . The programme concluded with the Peer Gynt Suite , and Miss Allan received the ' ovation she deserved . She has brought a new art to the English theatre , and it is an art that endures . Miss Allan will appear at the Palace every eren ing next week , and on Wednesday she will repeat yesterday's programme at a special matinée . 22 People who like to see the stars shine are hereby notified that Miss Maud Allan and Mr. L. Godfrey Turner will black boots at the theatrical garden party in the Botanic Gardenis , Regene's Park , to - morrow , 7-10 - N . Miss Maud Allan , Theatre . They were penned as a prefix to the state ment that the triumph of Maud Allan's art had now proved itself independent of the glamour of novelty , and they are more than ever apposite to the subject of Miss Allan's dancing now that she has returned once more to the Palace in the year 1911 . The enduring quality of Miss Allan's art was mado more than ever manifest yesterday after noon . Here was the same indefinable charm , the same tremulous appeal . The attribute of greatness in art is determined by its perpetuity . The perfect artist recaptures for ua " The hrst careless rapture ” with the touch of genius . We never outgrow perfect art if we feel the emotion of beauty . That is why our tears still blot the pages of a romance like , " The Cloister and the Hearth , " that is why certain sonnets of one Willian Shakespeare still send a fiery tingle through blood , and certain pictures of an old Italian Lv name Botticelli , absorb our senses with

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