Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 2

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1910s 2

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NY lineal Camer Moncal ( а . & Dec 1191 & that re . 66 At the second of Miss Allan's matinees , MAUD ALLAN denly upon the very soul of art , na ked only a handful of spectators were sprink g the great reminders ' and unashamed and unutterably beauti- led through the auditorium ; and , at that hich have come to us in recent ful . very moment , a mob of people were he best must be recorded to the Beautiful Blue Danube , " like the pre- to buy tickets , just around the corner , Miss Allan's interpretation of " The stepping on each other's toes in the effort { America ; for it was an Amer- vious interpretation by Miss Duncan for “ Á Daughter of the Gods . ” Can it ist - Isadora Duncan - who first d the Greek art of the dance and is open to a logical exception . This be that the public would rather see a 1 the most quintessential of the composition by Johann Strauss -- to state moving - picture of a beautiful woman m the trappings and the suits of the simple fact a little crudely - is the than see a beautiful woman actually rtifices which long had overlaid best of all the dance - tunes of the world . making moving pictures all around the I the European countries . The But , to the present writer at least , it has stage ? The enigma is difficult to solve . ad become - in Italy and France always suggested a brilliant ball - room , But one experience resulted from a visit re acrobatic exercise of standing all glittering with glass and gold , alive to Miss Allan's sparsely - attended mat toes and twirling in a ruffle of twirling gaily round abcut with many with many men in gorgeous uniforms inee . When the writer stepped forth from the dream - world in which he had rapery dependent from the hips iss Duncan , by going back to the women clad in swooping skirts . In the been entranced into the noisy world of went back to nature , and made very air of this music there is something Times Square , with its inconsiderable of dancing once again a living , absolutely urban and indoors . The flutter , he felt suddenly ashamed of New sister to the still , cold art of theme is not “ the beautiful blue Dan- York . And to be ashamed , now and then , ube " —which , in actuality , is nothing of all that makes our daily lives unlovely her Imerican artist - Maud Allan but a stream of brownish mud - it is , and untrue is a salutary feeling . gh not a pupil of Miss Duncan's , instead , imperial Vienna , artificial , bril le written down as one of her dis liant , magnificent , and courtly . Miss The technique of Miss Allan's Allan , to this music , represents a fable Dancer Appears for First Time in Vaudeville g has improved remarkably in of a water - ny mph awakened from some Mind Your Own Business ” a Clever Sketch . years ; and now , at the height of sylvan spring and streaming fluently The exceptional series of dancing numbers given reer , she excels her predecessor , if about the stage as if in gladness at the on the Palace program culminated in the first ap art , at least in the retention of a greatness of a river . Her dance is lovely ory youth and beauty . pearance of Maud Allan and her company in vaude Miss in itself ; but it is not the dance inspired n can still dance with her mind ; in the mind of Johann Strauss . ville on the Palace stage on Monday afternoon . ne body of Miss Allan - by the Miss Allan , in her present program , There were many professional dancers and devotees nt of time - has become a finer includes a dance - play in one act , entitled of the classical and modern dance sprinkled through m for art . " Nair , the Slave . This pantomime , the house and the audience as a whole was obvi essence of all art is rhythm ; for devised by Pietro Boldrini , with music ously swayed by the varying moods of the sharply the expression of ideas in terms of by Enrico Belpacci , may be described as contrasted numbers . and beauty , and the only ideas that a sort of distant echo of the Russian ally worthy of expression are hints ballet of “ Scheherazade . " In “ Nair , the As a prologue , the artiste gave three delicate · eternal harmony of the intricately oriental prince , instead of the oriental Slave , " it is the fair female who kills the vignettes of dancing which are well known in them selves and have become more famous through her mic universe . Thus , for the sheer ssion of the very soul of art , the prince who kills the lovely slave ; but interpretation . They were " The Spring Song " of comes first among the media that otherwise the two fables run very nearly Mendelssohn , “ The Moment Musical ” of Schu vailable , with music second , and parallel . The scenery and costumes , de- bert and The Blue Danube ” waltzes by Strauss . y a halting third . This was known signed by Kemp Prosser of London , are The dancer's flower - like figure caught all the elu colorful and beautiful . e Greeks , who knew all on earth we sive and elfin charm in these little masterpieces and Miss Allan was assisted in her per to know ; and all their art was built seemed an incarnation of the music itself . t the dance , as its central and es formance by a symphony orchestra con ducted by Ernest Bloch , a Swiss composer These were followed by the main feature of the al point of focus . w that Miss Allan , after many who has earned a considerable reputation program , a dance - play , “ Nair , the Slave , " telling on the other side of the Atlantic . This s of practise , has become a great in pantomime a love tragedy of the Orient . Maud orchestra made music to the ear which er , it has become a privilege to see Allan is the slave - girl , Nair , who cheers the heart Her interpretation , in terms of was just as beautiful as that other music of Amru , brother of the prince , by her wistful which Miss Allan made vivid to the eye . ly movement , of the Peer Gynt suite beauty and alluring dance , which she ends in an dward Grieg , is , for instance , charm Yet perhaps the least forgettable of all enchanting tableau in his arms . The prince comes the incidents of an unusually lovely imagined and exquisitely true . To afternoon was the eloquence of the arms upon this scene and is about to slay his brother her show , to eyes that wonder , the kening of morning or the death of of the dancer , —the way in which a when Nair plunges a dagger into the assailant's heart and then turns to her lover , who leads her is to enjoy the thrill of looking sud- spiritual impulse seemed to drift through fluent wrists to hands that laid a finger out into the moon - lit desert to happiness . on the soul . This brief but intense tragedy without words h . all the languorous grace and smoldering passion Vendeville Stage . the Orient for a background with the thread of th Mayd . Fan's success at the Palace drama carried by the two principals -- Maud Alia has led to her being held over to a and Stafford Pemberton . The dance with whic second seek , ir a new programrae of the slave girl charms Amru is a new and striki : dances Miss Allan is assisted by her creation of Maud Allan's and is almost violent eompany of which Stafford Pemberton is its intensity . Stafford Pemberton as Amru wa leading man . Bam Rock and Franees a vivid figure that might in reality have stepped White will also remain for a second week . from the Lybian desert at sunrise . Much credit 1 Others on the bili will be Jack Wilson . due the scenic artist who designed the brilliant and Frank Burst and Lille Boardman , the harmonious set which was remarkable in its sim Ponzilio Siris , " Oklazoma " Bob Albright , plicity and in the suggestion given through a sing ! and the Fire of Clubs in " A Pierrot's vase or fold of the hangings . Dream " DEC 616 6 to the

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