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 skipped this city last Thursday because they were not satisfied with the advance sale . Miss Allan's mana ger telephoned from Binghamton and asked how it was progressing . " Fair , " said an unsuspecting employee of the Lyceum . The company jumped direct to Scranton . Eastern Critics Extravagant in Their Pr . Manager Lee Norton declares the ad of the Great Dancer and Her Producti vang sale at the time totaled $ 900 . Muced Conner г or as stonen 7 Aa ) was see . a a The second American trans - con- move ; the face is tense with anguish . The while “ The Dance of the Gnomes ” never tinental appearances of Maud head droops ; the whole body crouches down lost the gracefulness that characterizes all in torture of spirit . Here is the apotheo- this dancer does , and with an impish Allan , the famous symphonic dan- sis of mourning , the profoundest depth of sprightliness in the use of legs and arms cer , though the tour is only five sorrow , It is as if the very Spirit of and futtering fingers that conveyed the weeks old , indicates that it is one mobile , doomed Tragedy itself stood before you , silent , im- idea of a whole stageful of rollicking elves , rather than one solitary figure flying hither of the artistic , social , and success- The woran 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 awiul loneliness of sorrow , must be Miss Allan was not wrong in be- acclaimed a great artist . For this is the To attempt a criticism of Miss Allan's lieving that the American public highest art - to create an illusion that re- dancing is impossible . There are no laws would support her under her own mains a vivid impression in the brain after of technique to base any such critique 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 . Joy , surprise , fear , rapture , zations . passion , and despair flow from her graceful Maud Allan's presence meant the pres movements if depicted in another ence of high art in music , dancing and soft That the critics of the Eastern mediun , by a master's brush . She colors . It reant tragedy , passion , mourn newspapers think Maud Allan one darts over the stage as if impelled by great ing . joy , and the gladness of nature trans of the great artistic phenomenons butterfly wings . - The Mail , Montreal , Can - lated into sensuous appeal to the eye and ada . ear . - Atlantic 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 of 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 refinement and intel of old were devoted , and of which the elect ligence , and her entertainment offers ex Maud Allan's art is unique among the have never fully lost sight through the in- ceptional variety .-- New York American . dancers of the Anglo - Saxon world . In her tervening centuries .-- The Gazette , Montreal , new dance play , " Nair , the Slave , " that Canada , art is put to the supreme test . Here is Beneath the exotic atmosphere of the beautiful moving picture , instinct with the Mendelssohn's " Spring Song " is made a need for pantomime , for play of hands and arms and features , ' for intricate rhythmic dances , the musical heart of the entertain rhythmic charm of youth ; and in her Miss Allan visualizes smaller numbers , particularly in the Chopin steps , for everything that the choreographic ment beats soundly . art embraces . 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 ments . 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 In ability to stay the part : she lives the role . -The Star , Mont- she has no rival . - North American , Phila- body for a moment in a pose that is re real Canada delphia . 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 in Chopin's number danced eternally by the Russians , supremely efficient . - Rochester , N. Y. , Post “ Funeral March " is to visualize for us the Maud Allan gave quite a new interpreta- Express . tion . and tragic moment with altogether a delightful one , a poignancy and realism that thrill the imagination and stir while in “ Nair , the Slave , " she presented As Shelley was , the heart profoundly . The figure is elo with a capable company , a companion piece Maud Allan is the poet of dancers , and the “ Tribune , New higher the artistic appreciation of quent of grief . The long , trailing veil adds to her a striking color note . To the slow meas . York . audience , so in proportion is their estima . tion of her ures of the march the body moves , slowly , expressive demonstrations . as though overburdened by a weight of Grieg's “ Peer Gynt " suite she inter . Some measure of the time and attention The arms and subtle she has given to their production is gauged are stretched upward in preted with alluring grace passionate appeal . They drop again in the shades of meaning , the significance of by the finish of every detail --The World , 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 the house last Thurs day , but not because of prurient curiosity . Miss Illai Máud Allan's New York premiere in Nair , the slave " 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 uncom followed by two further recitals the Forty - fourth mon influences , and she gives a thrilling and unforgettabl Street Theatre , both of them attracting delighted audi portrayal . Lighter moments were shown in the Alla ences of representative persons , socially and artistically , conceptions of Strauss ' " Blue Danube , " a representatio who marveled anew at Miss Allan's grace , poetical appeal wonderfully delicate and lissome . Music of Schuber and resourcefui fantasy , and applauded each and every Tschaikowsky , Grieg ( “ Peer Gynt " ) was interpreted wit one of her performances to the echo . all the remarkable variety of Miss Allan's imaginative an One enchanted auditor said to the MUSICAL COURIER re technical equipment . One feels that she finds the appro viewer : " The music appears to enter Miss Allan's body 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 Ernest Bloch , the excellent Maud Allan Syn nerves , and limbs to move in perfect alfinity with the phony Orchestra of forty players ( the organization wa vibrations , tonalities , and harmonies of the musical tow . " founded by Miss Allan and is part of her traveling con No professional critic could have expressed better than pany ) gave soundly musical and well polished reading the foregoing comment the nature and purpose of Miss of Schubert's " Unfinished ” symphony , Mozart's symphon Allan's art . It is completely blended and fused with the in E flat , Beethoven's " Leonore " overture , No. 3 , ai music which she selects and illustrates in bodily gesture other numbers of the same character . facial pantomime , and terpsichorean rhythm . No one ex This week Maud Allan and the sixty members of h cels her in art dancing of that kind , and it has truly beer company are in Philadelphia and other Pennsylvan characterized as " symphonic . " cities , whence come intensely enthusiastic reports oit ! reception extended to the great dance interpreter and h artistic entourage . woe . at Minical Correi