Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 2

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 2

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M93 OD ALLAI A DANCE QUEEN Two Noted Dancers Out of Step When They Exchange Compliments Musical Och 219161 AS an CT2_11 was in her Bellevue strasse flat with all [ From the New York Sun ] her clothes on . I wrote a very compli S the Kaiser Toves King George , or mentary interview for American as liarry Lauder loves to spend paper about her and she never even so much as said ' I thank you . ' And as for his money , even so two rival dancers , me , I never took a dancing lesson from Isadora Duncan and Maud Allan , love the best dancers in the world , much less each other . from her . " Fresh occasion for an exchange of “ Oh , yes , I know of Miss Allan , " Miss terms of endearment was given by Isa- Duncan said . “ Of course she was not dora Duncan's remark that Maud Allan my pupil , as I only took very young was " stealing her stuff . ” Of course girls to train . When I was dancing in the remark was couched in much more Berlin she used to ask me for theater refined terms , but the general idea was the same . Purely by accident it reached tickets to see me dance , and when she the shelllike ear of Miss Allan at the made her debut there as a dancer her Forty - fourth Street Theater , where she self she was officially billed as a pupil is giving a series of matinees . of mine until I had my manager write What the celebrated . " Salomé ” said and have it changed , for she never when first she heard it need not be re- studied with me . Of course she was not peated here , but she looked as if she copying me , but it is a strange thing to thought that what happened to John the me that she never thought of dancing Baptist was too good for a certain im- Mendelssohn's ' Spring Song ' and ' Ave pressionistic dancer with red hair . Maria ' until after she had seen me dance Speaking for publication , however , she them . said , " I admire Miss Duncan immensely . " The country is simply being flooded I think she is perfectly lovely and a with cheap copies of my work . They talented dancer , but say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery , but they at least should give There is a lot in the way a woman , me credit . ' Professional jealousy ? Oh , mercy no . speaking of another woman , arches he eyebrows and says “ but . " " I was a student of the piano at the Royal Academy in Berlin in 1903 when I first saw Isadora Duncan , ” Miss Allan said , “ and in the thirteen years since I have seen her only three times and her school once , and if she says I was her pupil or the pupil of anybody else , why , why- as she paused for a suitable word there was an interruption in the conversation . " And what's more , " she continued , " one of the times I saw her Exponent of Terpsichorean Poetry and nythmic Grace Reconquers New York Coseres forty - fourth Street Theatre , last Monday after ober 16 , Maud Allan reappeared in New York 11 too long absence , and , as of yore , at once put ice completely under the spell of her rare and .rt . She returns to us with all her former grace , and warm imagination , but added to them she to possess also a power of characterization , per rhythm , and sense of musical affiliation which er arrival at the full maturity of her powers , scription would require the full roster of the erlatives . llan's manner of interpreting music with the aid ighting , scenery and plastic movement is familiar the dance in its highest phases is understood and ed , and those who ha , e not yet been privileged the artist's offerings have in store a veritable Lior the eye , mind and soul . For the ear , too , it : added , as Miss Allan , herself an accomplished jays minute attention to her musical obligato ( it justice to its nature be called an accompaniment ) , ciates herself with her own symphony orchestra , d by Ernest Bloch , whom she brought from Eu that express purpose . lan's part of the program opened with her repre of eight Chopin preludes , and they were set forth jarvelous wealth of suggestion and variety in ges vement and facial expression . Each of the lovely was hlled with pictorial meaning through the rich of the performer , and to say that the audience was d is to give a mild term to their feelings , as ex by the ovation which followed the last of the pre opin valse , full of languor and poetical charm , sohn's " Spring Song , " done with a gracile light a feather footed nymph , and a Schubert " Moment ” full of humor and esprit , brought further tri or the dancer . air , the Slave , " an Oriental dance play in one act o by Boldrini , music by Belpassi , and scenery and s designed by Kemp Prossor , of London ) , Miss nployed a cost of six principals , together with su eraries , and gave a thrilling spectacle of a dancing ho kills her master because of fear for the life over . She showed herself in this pantomime to be actress of deep and vital resource . " Ham " -is the sweet yet delicately porcine name of the African play in which Miss Maud Allan , the Greek classic dancer , is to appear . In it she will be a slave girl . I have heard of lassies being enslaved by booze , dope , horrid men , and recalcitrant ideas , but never , never before by ham . Still a idea is always delightful . I wonder what artists Miss Allan will engage to play the eggs that love to nestle up against all well appointed ham ? new Variety OCT 22 , 1916 The settings of Miss Allan's stage , both the lilac - lavender velvet background for the solos , and the lavish and beauti fully blended hues and trappings of " Nair , ” won warm recognition from the connoisseurs in the audience . The orchestra played Debussy's " Petite Suite , " eight Russian airs arranged by Liadow , and Ernest Bloch's “ Hiver - Printemps , " a composition which revealed a sensi tive harmonic grasp and impressive knowledge of modern orchestral facturing . Monsieur Bloch is an earnest and musicianly conductor . 1915

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