Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan Australia Tour 1914

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Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan Australia Tour 1914

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4 July 6 ence OR A spacious floor on srce Teft . Wild Tussat green curtains , fold - on fold , all round the back of the stage , in crescent shape , was revealed for the lovely music of Schubert's song " Am DEL PALACE TRATOR Meer , " as arranged by Liszt . The little figure kpoeling on the share the more of the Osy dnes vague immensity of heaving water , was - Maud A GREAT DANCER . Mony Alian . Then the daneer rose , and in a series of significant attitudes suggested a grief that 1914 Herald ultimately left her prostrate on the ground , the Once more great dancer demonstrated rk head lying between the outstretched white that the rhythm of musio can be translated arms , as the colour faded from the stage , ani the music ceased as the darkness blotted the . into the symmetry of motion ! Godlee proroi scene from view . Chopln's " Valse in A it fast roar in conventional ballot , Maud Af Minor " ( Op . 34 , No. 2 ) , said to be his favourite , now shows how the same basic principle reintroduced the artist in blush - pink classic holds good in the classic , barefooted meas robes to the knee , giving her the appearance of an Arcadian shepherd - boy from some exqui urts of ancient Greece . site marble group , and her valse of dainty This new artist made a suocessful but aty graco ended yn despondency , during which she the Palace Theatre before a crowded audi- drooped out of sight . Miss Allan , be it noted , Saturday night . Starting at the rerely looks at her audience . Her aim is to Vienna Opera House 10 years ago , her talents keep in the character until the moment arrives with the last bar of music at which she can Lave won her fame all the world vermelt out of it by gliding behind the curtain . After her two years ' appearances in London , Mendelssohn's “ Spring Song " excited enthu and her tour of the United States , South siasm . Here the dancer , with garlanded hair free to every wind Africa , India , and the East , Sydney is almost that blew , successfully typified the joy of girlhood as she chased the the last big city of her many conquests , for elusive butterflies of youth with many a fawn she has already visited the chief centres of like leap , and exhibited an innocent amaze Australasia Her gifts consist in the grace . ment that the glittering " flower of the air " One of the best ful interpretation of the various phases of bad vanished from her grasp . of the series , Schubert's morrent Musical , feeling suggested by the music which inspirestillenabled the dancer to realise - some of the her dance . Grief and joy she impresses weird fantastic poses of idealised " Mischiet ut on the mind of the spectator in association Play ; " and there was another much applauded with poses and gestures perpetuated from an item to the lilt of the " Blue Danube " valse . almost legendary epoch in surviving marbles that have resisted the corroding touch of Time . The form of her art thus shares always a note of reticence . Passion is foreign to its scope , as it was also to the range of Mlle . Genee . It might be supposed , bow aver , that there Was a suggestion of the sensuous in " The Vision of Salome , " did not her own published description forbid us to think 80 . In this beautifully written and imaginative narrative - Salome is no vi cious Oriental woman wooing in dance the stricker Head she had vainly desired to kiss when its glowing eyes beamed with Tite , and marvellous words of gold dropped from its tongue . No , the Salome of Miss Allan's drama is just a horrified maiden of 14 years , who dreams that she is alone once more with that awful burden , and , in her vision , leaps to womankoodhoe the embrace that first brings the idea of Salvation and the hope of Stonement in her own girlish person for her mother's awful stil , There was muoto laterest - tho - audience before this inal Salome scene . The three ciever musicians from Odessa , now world worn , but still young in years , Leo , Jan , and Mischel Cherniavski , caught the fancy of the house , and their efforts were warmly recog nised . The star was seen in many brief dances to fine music rendered by a competent orchestra This condueted by Mr. Frank St Leger , and consisted of 35 good players . The strings were not quite numer ous enough to balance the brass from a strictly eritical standpoint ; but in Nicolal's dainty and ratus overture to the Merry Wives of , Windsor , " with its famous and familiar . Yalse - air , and in the several pieces . accompanying the dancer on the stage the bestra formed a decidedly welcome feature an evening of refined entertainment . Sydney Morning Herald July 6 , 1914 Contamed ) ? 9 རྒྱལ་ ནང་ ། Sunday Morning и Herald Sazanan Г - Jul 6 1914 6 . S was

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