Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan Australia Tour 1914

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Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan Australia Tour 1914

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The Star N2 June 2 1914 Auckland of the same time JUNE 2 , 1914 POLICE COURT . ( Before Mr. E. C. Cutten , S.M. ) t re 8 t The Star iva , THE MAUD ALLAN SEASON . These dances to Grieg's music app pealed to 18 as being the most artistic METODY IN DANCE . of Mee Allan's log programme . The widely known Blue Damube waltz was June 2 1914 apparently the favourite of the audi . ence . The dancer as an encore gave an After seeisg Misa Maud Allan dancing || interpretation of Brahms ' Valse , , and one is at a courplete loss to understand then when recalled again she added the how anyone could take the slightest barcarolle from " Tales of Hoffman . " A 1 objection to it . It ia quite true that feature of the performance is the artis . her name is synonymous in the comie tic lighting . There was a very large papers for the irreducible minimum in audience at His Majesty's Theatre last clothes , but her performance is really evening , when the season opened , and it the most chaste thing imaginable , It says much for the good taste of the in as far removed from any suggestion of Auckland public that it could appreciate the sort of lance which cost John the Miss AMan's art as keenly as it did . Baptást his head as one of those inno Judging from the vogue of that child of cent Greek girls playing ball in Alma Tadema's " llorze Serenae " is removed nigger minatrelsy , the ragtime , and the from one of Ruben's pink , plump , volup exotio tango , one might have been pard oned for coming to the conclusion that tuong vomen . It is music translated our appreciation of real music and art into motion by a woman with a A was becoming dulled . fired and artistie mind . Assisting Mia Allan are those thren If you were to take a plebiscite of an clever Russian Brothers , Leo , Jan and ordinary audience that had just heard Miscbel Cherniarsky , who are pleasantly something by Chopin , Schubert or Grieg , remembered by the wie - loving people e in order to find out th emotions it of New Zealand . Not a little of the a wakened , the result would probably i success of the performance was due to be that the average person experiended a their masterly contributions . They rather indefinable sort of exaltation , opened the programme with a brilliant in whicn the mind was more keenly cen interpretation of the Bach trio for sitive to sensations of pleasure , tender . piatoforte , violin and ' cello . Miecbel neon , and regret for some ball - awakened Cherniavsky , whose ' cello playing in memories . Mio Allan defines music in marked by such mpnicianly feeling , con a much more tangible manner . Ofstributed Vito and Papillon , by Popper , Conra if one is not very well up in the and in ' response to an encore played of melody her interpretations Schubert's Wiegenlied charaningly . Jan € always easy to follow , but sim Cheroiavsky , the pianist , was enthusias ple and direct works like Mendelssohn's tically tpoalled for his rendering of the Spring Song or Ase's death in the Peer Liszt setting of Verdi's Prigoletto , and Gynt suite , must appeal to people with gate & very delicate rendering of Pad the most superficial knowledge of music , erewoky's Minuette . Another peoll fol It is astonishing the amount of mean . lowed , and he had to play again . Jan ing she can convey by the motion of her lithe body , her mobile features , and Cherniavsky's astonishing technical skill as a violinist was well illustrated in the her wonderfully expressive arms and Schubert - Wilhelm Ave Maria and in hands . There are phases of human Sarasate's Spanish Dance . His playing emotion that Miss Allan does not touch , of the latter part of Zacharewitsch's and from this fact her work may lack a Imagination with muted strings was certain amount of light and shade . She most effective , and the audience de . interpreta life as it appears to an in , manded another item . The Cherriavalys nocent girl , intellectual , and of a highly all Miss Allan's artistic matme . Her dancing is Greek calao accompanied dances .. My Cueil Tene in its simplicity and English in menti : ment . There is nothing of the Gre and abandon that one eesociates with cer . tain foreign dancer Her art plastic than that of Genee , and less enborant than that of Parlova . On a bare stage , purple carpeted , and hung with a semi - circle of greea hangings , this simple figure , robed in diaphanous Greek dress , which leaves most of her limbs bare , first suggests the varying emotions of Chopin's Valse in A minor , Meodels . sohn's Spring Song , Sehubert's Moments Musical . Then comes the Peer Gynt surite the joy of morning , the poig . nancy of grief at the death of Ase , Ani . tray dance , and finishing with the and Puck like dance of the Gm DRONTESS . “ Only came out yesterday , " was Annie MoCarthy's ( 58 ) only defence to having got drink yesterday in detanee of her prohibition order , this being her fifth similar offence within six months . Im view of the fact that she had inat come out of residence at ME Eden , she was Tiven a chance by being convicted and discharged . One first offender had to pay 5 / , and another forfeited baik . baik GOT HISOLANOL Samuel Gibson ( 49 ) , who had been found sleeping in a lavatory on the Queen's wharf a week ago , and had admitted having elept in the same place for a week , was charged that he was an idle and disorderly person . He hadn't worked , he said , since March , and had elevenpence in his pockets . Further inquiries elicited that the man bad had an arm broken in March , and since then had got two paymenta under accident insurance , but he had ap parently become inured to an easy life , and had let himself go down in prefer . ence to resuming hard work . Ciibson's excuse was that he was an hotel porter , and could not get work , The Magistrate decided to give the man a chance , by dismissing the charge of vagraney . m ar 11 u Ex So auckland Public Library more Ex w 5 Xerox 5/1984