Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 2

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 2

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Ny ♡ MAUD ALLAN'S T. OPENS SUCCESSFU MAUD ALLAN SKIPS ELMIRA . Elmira . N. Y. , Oct. 18 . Maud Allan and her company of dancers skinned this city last Thursday because they were not satisfied with e advance are . Miss Allan's mana ger telephoned from Binghamton and asked how to progressing . * Fair , " said an unsuspecting employee of the Lycerun . The company jumped Eastern Critics Extravagant in Their Pr . dirent to Scrantone of the Great Dancer and Her Producti vanet anager Lee Norton declares the ad . ble at the time totaled SODO . ROS 1516 an Orrow Mined Coren o movenients 29 11 Amen 7 Ad was ments . 2 . a The second American trans - con- move ; the face is tense with anguish . The while " The Dance of the Gnomes " never tinental of appearances head droops ; the whole body crouches down lost the gracefulness that characterizes all Maud in torture of spirit . Here is the apotheo . This dancer does , and impish Allan , the famous symphonic dan- sis of mourning , the profoundest depth of sprightliness in the use of legs and arms as 11 and fluttering fingers that conveyed the the very Spirit of cer , though the tour is only five weeks old , indicates that it is one mobile , doomed Tragedy itself stood before you , silent , im- idea oi a whole stageful of rollicking elves , rather than one solitary figure flying hither of the artistic , social , and success- The worsan who can create such a figure , and thither like a veritable airy sprite .-- fully financial events of the season . who can convey to you such a picture of The Evening Bulletin , Philadelphia . the awful Joneliness of sorrow , must be Miss Allan was not wrong in be- acclaimed a great artist . For this is the To attempt a criticisin of Hiss Allan's lieving that the American public highest art -- to create an illusion that re- dancing is impossible . There are no laws base mains a vivid impression in the brain after of technique to any such critique would support her under her own the figure itself has passed from the stage . upon , for Miss Allan dances as her emo management with a company of 66 The Star , Montreal , Canada . tions will as she feels the call of the people , including a symphony or rhythm and the phrasing of the music. chestra that is larger than that car Maud Allan's ability to interpret the emo- Atlantic City Daily Press . tions by means of the hunian form divine ried by many grand - opera organi- is unique . Tor , surprise 1ear , rapture , zations . passion , and despair How from her graceful Vaud Allan's presence meant the pres depicted . in another tince of high art in music , dancing and soft That the critics of the Eastern medium , by a master's brush . She colors . It incant tragedy , passion , mourn newspapers think Maud Allan one darts over the stage as if inipelled by great ing poy , and the gladness of nature trans butterfly wings.- -The al Montreal , Can- lated into sensuous appeal to the eye and of the great artistic phenomenons ada . car - tlantic City Gazette Review . of contemporary times is demon Maud Allan's visit is an event for those strated in the reviews attached who find pleasure in the exemplification or The art of this beautiful , gifted girl is herewith : those ideals of beauty and the bodily ex- as great a delight as ever ; her interpreta pression of emotion to which the Greeks tions are marked by retinement and intel oi old were devoted , and of which the elect ligence , and her entertainment offers ex Vaud Allan's , art is unique among the have never fully lost sight through the in- ceptional variety . --- Vew York American . dancers of the Anglo - Saxon world . In her terrening centuries . The Gazette Montreal , new dance play , “ Nair , the Slave , " that Canada . art is put to the supreme test . Here is Mendelssohn's " Spring Song " is made a Beneath the exotic atmosphere of the Leautiful moving picture , instinct with the need for pantomime , for play of hands and in her arms and features , ' for intricate rhythmic dances , the musical heart of the entertain rhythmic charm of youth ; and Viss Allan visualizes smaller numbers , particularly in the Chopin steps , for everything that the choreographic inent beats soundly . art einbraces . And she meets all require the musical idea with an infinite fertility of waltz , there was a physical grace , a use of harmonious body movement , that She never suggests Maud Allan invention . Her sense of the beautiful and acting a part in a set scene , She is the the graceful is unfailing . Without question charming to see . In ability to stay the body for a moment in a pose that is re part : she lives the role . --The Star . Mont . she has no rival . - North American , Phila real Canada delshit . markably clear in its purpose and is at the To Schubert's Moment Musical , " saine time complete in grace , Miss Allan is What Maud Allan does Chopin's number danced eternally by the Russians , supremely efficient .-- Rochester , N. Y. Post Vaud Allan gave quite a new interpreta Express . ** Funeral Varch " is to visualize for us the tion . and altogether delightful one , tragic moment with poignancy and realism that thrill the imagination and stir while in " Vair , the Slave , " she presented As Shelley was the poet of poets . SO the heart profoundly . The figure is elo with a capable company , a companion piece Maud Allan is the poet of dancers ; and the * Scheherazade.The Tribune , New higher the artistic appreciation of her quent of grief . The long , trailing veil adds to a striking color note . To the slow eas . York . audience , so in proportion is their estima . ton of ures of the march the body moves , slowly , expressive demonstrations . though overburdened by a weight of Grieg's " Peer Gynt " suite she inter- Some measure of the time and attention The arins are stretched upward in preted with alluring grace and subtle she has given to their production is gauged passionate appeal . They drop again in the shades of meaning , the significance of by the finish of every detai ! --The Iorio desolation of despair . The lips quiver and " Asa's Death " being strkingly brought out , Toronto , Canada . Under her own management : MAUD ALLAN'S CO . , Inc. , Suite 1208 , Times Bldg . , New York " The Vision of Salome ” packed ile house lot Purs day , but not because of prurient curiosity . Ili ilk Mand Allan's New York premiere inainte save Vair , thd Share visualizes the drama of the Salome legend , the inne ( described in the MUSICAL COURIER of last week ) was struggle of the very young maiden surrounded by uncut followed by two further recitals the Forty - fourth mon influences , and she gives a thrilling and unforgettal ! Street Theatre , both of the attracting delighted andi portrayal . Lighter moments were shown in the Alla ences of representative persons , socially and artistically , conceptions of Strauss ' " Blue Danube , " a representativ who marveled anew at Miss Allan's grace , poetical appeal wonderfully delicate and lissome . Music of Schuler and resourcefui fantasy , and applauded each and et ry Tschaikowsky , Grieg ( " Peer Gynt " ) was interpreted wit one of her perforinances to the echo . all the remarkable variets of llis , Allan's imaginaire an One enchanted auditor said to the MUSICAL . CURIER E. technical equipment . One feels that she finds the appare viewer : " The music appears to enter Viss Allan's bels priate living embodiment for the tonal creations of ever at the top of her head and to pass through to the very composer . tips of her toes , the tonal current causing her muscles , Under Enest Bloch , the excellent and \ lau Syn nerves , and limbs to more in perfect alinity with the phony Orchestra of forts players ( the organization wa vibrations , tonalities , and harmonies of the musicaltion . " founded by Viss Allan and is part vi her traveling con No professional critic could have expressed better thail pany ) gave soundly musical and well polished readin ; the foregoing comment the nature and purpose of linn of Schubert's " Untinished " sympliony . Abuzari's vypu Allan's art . It is completely blended and fused with the in E fat , Beethove's " Leonore " useruore , No 3 , ai music which she selects and illustrates in bodily gesture other numbers of the same character . facial pantomime , and terpsichorean rhythin . Vuoneis This week Vaud Allan and the sixty members oil cels her in art dancing of that kind , and it liit trul : le company are in Philadelphia and other l'emylvan characterized cities . Whette con indtil det . as

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