Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 2

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 2

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TIZ a Seff allo Ole or Original Barefoot Dancer and Creator of " Vision of Salome " Found Modern Steps , Including Lame Duck and Bunny Hug on Four Continents and She Blushes Sept , in the Telling . BY MARGUERITE MOOERS MARSHALL . The one - step has won its way around the world . Maud Allan brings the news , and confirms our direst suspicions . Un doerbredtym Shakespeare were able he would paraphrase himself- " All the world's a ballroom , all the men and women merely dancers , " Mean while , Miss Allan's testimony is clear . For two years she has been circum navigating the globe with her beautiful classic dancing , and on four conti nents she has picked up the trail of thc new social dances . Likewise and most honestly she is shocked by them , this young woman whose terpsicho rean twinkling of slim white feet touched off a whole battery of shocks and thrills a few years ago . The barefoot dancer blushes for ballroom dancing - for some of it , anyway . I found her at the Hotel Seymour yesterday afternoon , where she is staying for a few days before she sails for her home in London , She is a tall , slender , rather grave he's doing to her now ? I'd say . DO woman , with ash - blonde hair , sea - col- you see what's happening to that other ored eyes and most perfect and beau- / girl ? It was appalling , tilul repose . She wore a white lace Neither Graceful Nor hat and a conventional white frock , | Modert Were there Girls and looked as if she might just have SCOLESA left one of the smart teas at which she is $ 0 frequently a guest .. For Miss there were no sich extreme I think Allan is a close friend of Premier As - Americans have taken the new dances quith and his wife , and has been made a little harder than the rest of the much of by English anët Continental world . You see , you are mad I returned to this country society , although most of her early life rag time . was spent in our own California . by way of California and in Los An . geles I saw young girls dancing in a The Modern Dance Has fashion that was neither graceful nor Invaded the Orient modest . * In Chicago , however , I saw “ The renaissance of social danc- two three modern dances done ing has swept over the world , " she charmingly by American woman said . " It is by no means confined who is a professional dancer . " to America , or even to America and On the whole , do you approve of Europe . Such dances as the hesi- the world's dancing during the last tation , the one - step the tango , are two years ? " I asked . to be in the ballrooms of Miss Allan looked eyen gräver than India , China , the Philippine Is- usual . lands . In some of its ananifesta " I have seen the fox trot , the tango tions modern dancing is nothing and the hesitation done rather pret less than hysteria , a sort of cosmic tily , " she conceded . " The one - step is craze . " nothing : a mere tum - ti - tum . The new Perhaps at last we know what the dances may be done well ; they may be " cosmic urge's is - a fox trot to the done with neither dignity nor ele music of the spheres . gance . An interest in the dance may * I left London two years ago , " con- be an excellent thing ; carried to the tinued Miss Alan . " I did the usual point of mania it may do great harm . ' Continental tour , even going to Spain | " At least , men like the new dances , " from Italy I sailed from Spain to submitted . Bombay and traveled all over India How the one - step is bringing -Calcutta , Simla Delhi and all the out the old men 19 she laughed . other show places .. I had two won * It just suits them - leht have derful weeks near Mount Everest , on been made for them . There are the border of Thibet , the highest peak in the world . Besides dancing , I col so many old gentlemen in the ball room novadays . " lected many beautiful native costumes And then she voiced a plea which and pieces of jewelry . " I went to Burma and from there Pavlowa once made to me . " It is the beautiful old dances which to Hongkong , China . Then I sailed to Manila , in I should like to see in the ballrooms the Philippines . I visited of the world , " she said . Why can all the towns of importance in Aus we not dance again the minuet , The tralia ; also Tasmania and New Zea gavotte , the saraband , the square land . Every one was very kind and dance ? the Governor General and other digni “ But aren't those dances too slow taries entertained me , so that I had a chance to observe the social Tife of for the swift generation ? " * They might be modified and mod the different countries . ernized , " she argued . " They are so ** The influence of the new dances beautiful , and they afford opportunity was perceptible everywhere . And for charming coquetry instead of for never in my life have I seen such this frank hugging . Why can we not dreadful dancing as I gazed at a revive the open waltzes , in which the year ago in a Manila ballroom , partners danced lightly and delicately , where members of the best holding themselves a part ? ciety were doing the turkey trot and the bunny hug . It was not Not For Joy of Dancing daneing ; it was more like a hug- But For Sake of Embracing : ging match . And how the young " I don't believe in making the men pulled the girls around ! " . doing of one thing an ereuse for Miss Allan's eyebrows lifted and a doing something else . I wouldn't staccato note crept into her smooth put on a bathing suit and then give tones . " It was the worst dancing I a tea party . Yet So many persons have ever seen , " she repeated . ' I was just now seem to be dancing , not utterly shocked . My friends laughed for the joy of the dance , but for at me , but all I could do was to lean the sake of lying in each other's forward and stare . Do you see what arms . " seen 80