Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Contemporries

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Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Contemporries

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March 3 , 1916 Mlle . Verbist Is Entrancing Artistically Perfect Dancer Benefit for Destitute Bel gians at the Colum bia Is a Big Success A By WALTER ANTHONY SLENDER little lady with deep brown eyes gave a benefit for the destitute Belgians yester day afternoon at the Columbia The ater , and proved again that ' tis an 11 wind that blow's nobody good . If it had not been for the war we might never have seen Mlle . Felyne Verbist of the Royal Opera of Belgium , Brus sels . And that would have been a pity , for she means sorrething in the scheme of art , which , I think , is not quite complete without her . Conjure in your mind the real dancers and name them one by one , from Pavlowa , exotic and lovely , to Genee , fresh as a primrose , or from soubrettish Lo pakowa to decadent Maude Allan , or from picturesque Ruth ' St. Denis 10 the Audrey Beardley Gertrude Hoff maan , and there isn't any one quite like Felyne Verbist , whose superb teahnique never overwhelms her pretty femininity , and whose beauty never lends itself to sensuality . TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE Even when she danced “ Salome " yesterday , and strangers drew their opera " glasses eagerly , she retained the abstraction with which art al ways clothes its creatures , even wher a Wagner marries a brother to a sis ter . In fact , the only criticism I could hur ) teebly at the dancer's Salome was that she was too good to be true . rhere were no experiments with papier inache head such as Allan used to delight in , and no writhings nor horrid gestures , but an inscrutable and mysterious dance which might have adjusted itself with equal pro priety to the death of a pomegranate Trgrol blossom . MISKINI The dance of The Swan " to Saint Saens ' arpeggio melody was a minia- MILE . FELYNE VERBIST ture tragedy , to point which it was not even needful that a blank cart ridge be exploded off the stage . If witching . Romance lies in the art of music can be visualized , it was done Mlle . Verbist's dancing , technique Yesterday afternoon with the undu- guides her mode of expressiveness , lating form of the dancer shivering but back of it all there is a person rhythmically to the death throes of ality of uncommon quality and , I be the pretty swan , with what I prefer lieve , a woman of singular purity and to think was an arrow and not a dum - grace . dum bullet in its heart . If you love Genee you will love ALURING AND BEWITCHING Mlle . Verbist . If you admire Pavlowa you will appreciate the dexterity of The Specter of the Rose " was the this Belgian , and if the unusual fasci most ornate and programmatic nates you , she will give you some dance of the afternoon , and , in some thing in the dance which only Texpects , the most beautiful , for its Kreisler amongst all violinists prof delicacy and sweet charm served to fers lovers of melody . indicate the dancer's highest quali- She danceguit may call it stien of appeal . It Salome was the dancing - next Sunday afternoon and tuberose , this dance was the primrose then she will go away , like the thistle and each exhaled a fragrance at once down that the wind flicks out ot horlthy alluring and altogether be- I sight . R BELGIAN DANCER IS WARMLY GREETED Spectators at the Columbia Are Enthusiastic Over Mlle . Verbist a one Mlle . Verbist , the Belgian dancer . who caused a furore last Thursday afternoon when she appeared at the Columbia Theater , gave a ' second matinee of the dance yesterday after . noon to an attendance materially in creased in size and no less ' enthusi astic . The dancer was supported sympathetically by a large orchestra under the baton of Paul Steindorff , and the music and the dance were wedded in an ensemble of melody , harmony and grace . By special request the dancer re peated her Salome dance , and she olan t

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