Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1930s & 1940s

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1930s & 1940s

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New York Times Sept 8 1935 Tim * Co Wa Daad : on elements bon . giderably : more substanda than thete ' goes without saying , but these influences , however undesira blo , served excellently to enlarge her audiences , It has been a long time now since Salome was the nubject uppermos .. By JOHN MARTIN in Mims Allan's mind . Matters o HE annual influx of distin much more current interest are nov guished visitors from abrond absorbing her attention . For one " began a bit earlier than usual thing , there is her school project ir T MAUD ALLAN this year with the unberaided which she tries to prepare childrent Returns From Eng . esit - News Notes Supra Debut 135 Lon London don . I ber original plans have re- aptitude for dancing to make a mained unchanged , she has by now reer of it in the most practical way , already elipped quietly out of New Though she continues with the York on her way to California , teaching of her artist puplis in her she made her debut as a dansez where she is planning to give nev- own method of dance , these young She had been educated eral dance recitals and also to lec- aters are taught in addition ballet with the idea of being a pianist , turs at various women's clube on and tap , so that they can have and had slven no particular atten the subject of International peace . some hopes of earning a living in ton to the dance until she decided It is possible that on her way back the choreographic branches of the to devote herself to it as a career . to England in October she may stop theatre . She is wise enough , how . Her especiai Inspiration came from og here for a performance or two , aver , to realize that certain other the paintings of Botticelli , and she though that is not yet ' definite . considerations enter into the prob . Tashioned one of her early dances Miss Allan has not danced here lem , and in order to make the chit after his " Primavera . " since 1925 , and in the Intervening dren more presentable and hence don début came in 1908 , and two dscade an entirely new generation more readily acceptable as career years later New York baw her for of dance enthusiasts has grown up . material she sees that they are also the first time . She was extremely There must be few of them , hove taught diction , and in her own successful , not only with a select erer , if any , to whom her name drawing room they are allowed to group of connoisseurs , including does not bear certain connotations get an Insight into how people be several of the crowned heads of og hat glamorous period in the have who have not been handi- Europe , but afso with a wide ' popu prly years of the century when capped by a background of poverty.lar audience . In this country the danced in .vaudeville as well us at * sthetic " dancing was new and al ternately popular and shocking . Last year the pupils numbered the head of her own company . It The three names then that were on sixty - five , but in the coming season is interesting to note that it was agerybody's tongue were Isadora there will be izo of them , and the as her musical director that Ernest Ipuncan , Ruth st . Denis and Maud financing of the project is begin . Bloch first came to America . assume difficult propor It is her belief that the artist's Allan , and there were frequent arning to ruments and considerable partisan- tions . It is Miss Allan's hope that background should be as wide as aip as to which of them was the she will be able to get individual possible , and in her own profes **** in the field and who took scholarships from others who are wional life she has found good use nose ideas from whom . Now that in sympathy with her idea , but in for her early mousical training , and the immediate pressure of the argu- the meantime she is carrying on on has appeared not only as a dancer bent has been relieved with the her own , and presumably intends to but also as an actress . Outside the arts , her Interests are active in Dansage of time , it becomes evident continue doing so . at there was never really any About her personal dancing , peo- social welfare work and in propa reument at all . Isadora unquestion ple sometimes ask her , she skys , 1 gands for peace . Whether one or all bly came first , but her two col she is still doing the same kind of of these interests brought her to hagues were just as evidently volces , thing , and her reply la that she still Americe , it would perhaps be all their time , and each of them has the same instrument to dance Picult even for her to say . But yontributed a strong personal note with . She is most interested in the whether she is most concerned with ind an individual direction to their visualization of music , feeling that lecturing at women's clubs on in common art . in her movement sbe la projecting ternational relations or with visual something of what must have been Izing Tchaikovsky's Sixth sym It was " Salome ' that was most at the back of the composer's mind . phony , she is an alert and vital per Or what we have come to call the son , very much zware of what universally associated with Miss Al jan , in spite of the fact that she de modern dance she is a little dubi- going on in the world about her . She has seen Mary Wigman clared frequently that she wished it and has found heraell out of sym might be otherwise . But the Com stockians had made euch gestures pathy with that approach to the art . She has been nothing as yet of horror over the performances of of the work of the contemporary the Strauss opera , that it was in evitable that a dancer of her ability Ilkely that she would find here , American modernists , but it seems who essayed the character should leo , something contrary to her become at once sensational Miss taste . She has no love for anything Allan'a version of the story wag a bit different from the Wilde play approaching the acrobatic in danc and the opera . Her Salome was an ing , and this quality abe considere Innocent child who had no idea to be detrimental one in most what her dance before Herod in ballet dancers She makes a per tectly valla distinction volved . Indeed , the ballet was en between titled " The Vision of Salore , ** in technique , which after all 18 order to distinguish ft from the quired Yor the mere raising or the nore arnillar version . hand in the right way , and the This , of course , did not in any way check overstressing of physical difficultiem ** curiosity of the public or the the conquering of which leads ulti mateix lese to art than to Eyn atrrongering of certain por nastie virtuosity . of the press . That her auc Mies Allan , who in Canadian kom . ayant her childhood in Calle ve