Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1920s

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1920s

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HARMONY GLORGE LESLIE SMITH PRESENTS WOMAN'S ART 1921A REVELATION [ 4 March 4 1926 . 1948 MAUDS ALLAN ORCHESTRA 2 MAR PHILHARMON WALIOS , HENLEY PRICES 7 ° / 50 2 . $ _ 250 ONIC ROTHAEL UNUSTA PHILHARMONIC AUDITORIUM SIVE 5 Maud Allan Entrances Crored at Auditorium . au GEONGE LLSLIE SMITH PRESENTS Expresses All Emotion With Body and Limbs . MAUD ALLAN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 8:15 To - Night haich 6 20 재 1960 Fle Pilio at WTLIC HENRV ADHALI CJA WCIUN 1926 . Her Ambition 18 to Become Orchestra Leader . PHILHARMONIC AUDITORIUM S. OEVE 2 a There have been rehearsals and re . hearsals at Auditorium : there have been viorent , vituperative drills under Italian masters ; many dignified rehearsals under the baton of our own Nymphony leader , and even a sort of Scotch - oats gathering for Harry Lau der , but none compared with the re hearsal of yesterday morning , presid ed over by a tall , slender , young wom an in an ulster , with Symphony Di rector Hamilton , clad in sweater Instead of a coat , merely following the rhythm or her flying hands with his baton . This remarkable drill - mistress Was Haud Allan . Her orchestra was symphony cluster , accumulated from the orchestras of the Majestic , Granu and Mason theaters and other places . Miss Allan , who is quite unimpres sive with real clothes on , has the most wonderful hands in the world . They are better than any baton . She always rehearses her orchestra . and in this identical manner . First , wrapped in her big cloak and with a basket hat far down over her face , she sat on the stage , resting her chin on her palms and intently gazing at the leader . Then a phraso that demanded rep etition sounded in her cars . " No ! " she crieu . * Tliis way - la la la - la , tra -- that's It ! " FEVER SEIZES HER . But the fever of expression had seized her , and in a moment , leaping to her feet , she kicked over her chair and was swaying in harmony with every phrase , indicating tempo and expression with both hands , singing with all the fervor of a Latin leader and drawing out the finest points of the theme . After the reacarsal she had a long . musician's conversation with Director Hamilton , and it was mightly differ . cnt from the dancer's usual conversa tional handout to the band master . The average dancer says " Too fast ! " or " Too slow ! " and signs for the bags drum man to punctuate her kicks . Miss Allan talked about the inner meaning of Chopin and the possibilities of Rubenstein . Wouldn't th ! s paralyze all the Frankensteins in vaudeville , il she ever went on the circuits ? My greatest ambition , sald Miss Allen , " is to really lead an orchestra Dancing it all right , and I enjoy it , but I want still another form of expres slon to open up before me . I know I an do Tt , and I shall do it . " I have been offered one of the great orchestra of London for a concert any time I wish , but I haven't a valled myzelt of the opportnity as yet , though I fully intend to do so . DOES NOT USE BATOX " Tol ever take up the baton at these rehearsals Yo - nuch as I'd love to . do te would be disconcert the conductor . I would be giving my meaning to the players direct , and then at night , with the conductor in my place , and myself on the stage , we should all be utterly at sea . The men ould have ny ideas and his baton . " So I remain on the stage , alway's kroping myself in the third place , and lead through , not over him . " Interpretation of great orchestral music is to me a very wonderful thing . I have studied the orchestra as a scien sist studies his textbooks , and the more I study , the more I to stwo am sure I shall be an orchestrar conductor ! " Maud Allan , like any other remark able women , haser The quality that merikane ka niyle , and which the Irrara designate She presents a very quitet appearance in her strert clothes . They are not of articularly Mart Yesterday , hila 1 hile waiting in the Aud'torium lobby far her carriak , he was entirely 11 !. r . tichy len ? line of men and wom . en Lying tickets for her performances . SAD , INTELLIGENT EYES . She has the fuce of an intensely earn . at thinker , deep set , sad , Intelligent ng and the forehead an 1 inoble inoth of Irener . Her conversation Islan - ilke in it force and directness ; man - liko in it molesty . She is much abi ve the average height of woman . 1 ) ihr clothes she wears , accentuate her slenderneys . She has bik . Voing hands and a Grecian god - dess's feet Miss Allan is in queen of pantomime . Though one do not dance " Salom . " Anditorium Tunt night , she vurn - salud other terpsichorean per . formances or varied and interesting urder , man them tonipositions that 10 human being has yer thought of giving physical dance - form before The performan WH watened with 1.reathless interest from its orchestral opening to its rather -arly curtain , and in there were regrets for " Salome , ihr were not riprisurd . Tre te presume that this sort of think was Greek dancing , or at least , 1 fundamentale cirerk dancing in which all emotions from joy to mirtn ir sadness were expressed by move . Ants of the body and limbs . Miss Allan has the most wonderful hands and the most perfect command of her body which any dancer , of any description , has displayed in the pres int generation . DISPLAY OF CHARMS Is for large display or physical charms , & visitor at Any musical comedy may see more . Clad in a filmy robe of white or gray , with arms float . ing free , sundry nshes of white limbu are beheid now and then , but the en tire rendition is absolutely free from any suggestiveness . In fact , I doubt If one of the 3000 watchers last even ing gave more than a moment's pass ing thought to the fact that her feet and legs were bare . Suen dancing might be called statu . esque . And in perfect statues , as in perfect dancing , one is blinded hy physical detalls . Just how Miss Allan does it , or just what she doea , is a little beyond accurate description . After the Gado Scotch overture , laat eveningitime first notes of the Chopin Valse in A Minor rounded , and the bis green curtains , parting slightly at the back , admitted a sylph - like being in a robe of loosely gather wnite . Slue Ellded rather than stopped about t'ne tage , She seemed listening . at mo ments uncertainly : at other moments with burst of Joyous passion , again with little tremors of laughter ; now and then with visibly embodies sighs , and a rare moment swaying as though bent by a breath of love . The Incarnation of . this Chopin Valse moved before you . You forgot about the dance , you forgot about Maud Allan , you merely waits for phrases . Presently the murie stopped --- and there stood Maud Allan , bow Ing . ALCHEMIZES THE MUSIC . You couldn't tell what she had done . where she had moved , nor the way she had gotten there . She had simply al chernized a piece of music for you . So with the Mazurka in G Sharp Minor and the Mazurka in B Flat . The Mendelssohn Spring Song was an exquisite thing -- a perfect poem of mo tlon , vibrant with the gentle passion of the wakening year , and sweet and -tender as å bursting bud . Here Miss Allan demonstrated a remarkable fac . ulty of leaping into the air and alight ing - by a trick of bending her knees and body -- as softly as a ball of down stops before the wind . The " Peer Gynt " suite was another finely executed conception , presenting In great contrast the funeral themes of " Ase's Death , " " Anitra's Dance " and the " Dance of the Gnomes " at the finale . This finale , which in the music is called " In the Hall of the Mountain King , " was a terrific plece of work , in which the dancer , with hair fying , eyes flashing . lips working convulsive ly , arms failing like serpents and limbs weaving in and out . fed down the stage and back again like a soul haunted by evil spirits . Miss Allan concluded with the Ru binstein " Valse Caprice , " a series of beautifully conceived and wonderfully effective movements , aptly Interpreting this famous concert plece . Mr. Hamilton and his orchestra gavo Miss Allan fine assistance and dis pensed an interesting concert pro gramme between the dancer's numbers , An entirely different programme will be presented tonight . So far а as can 九 the LA Times did bearedained , ut ferieda out nonsense

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