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up to the modified abandon of the pastoral . Beyond natural grace and a rhythmic following of the music , there is no thing about Maud Allan's art that is common with dancing as we have been taught to know it . Whether her art is greater than the art of Genee , that inspired little Dane who stands higher upon a pinnacle than most dancers and pantomimists , or of Pavlova , the great exponent of the Russian school of ballet dancing , I am not going to discuss here , nor am I going to deal with the question of whether Maud Allan's conception mof the ultimate object of the dance is wholly satisfying . That is outside my present province . I will simply say that she at once artistic , graceful and intellectual . Her Terpischorean accompanment to Chopin , Schubert , and Grieg carry with them a sense of spontaneity , a suggestion that she is moved and inspired wholly by the music , and this was very marked in her rendering of Schubert's " Moment Musical " an in the first three movements of the " Peer Gynt " Suite . This sincerity is charming . Maud Allan's sincerity and belief in herself makes those who come to pray remain o to pray 香 套 I do not think she was so successful in the last movement of the " peer Gynt " Suite , which takes place , it will be rememebed , in the Hall of the Dwarfs and which the analytical program p for which six pence is charged says represents " the ponderous tread of the Dwarfs . " Dwarfs with a ponderous tread is something new . After this we may expect dainty footed giants and gaselle like elephants . The music of the last movement suggests the " earth man " and bresthes with burlesque and diminuitive pomposity . Under its marvellous inspiration we see these gnomes stimul ated to wild and abandoned dance , to an orgy under ehich they succumb through sheer exhaustion . While opening quaintly enough , Miss Allan's abandon toward the zenith of the crescendo rarely develops beyond the digital stage . But the dancer was exquisitie án a " Romance in E Flat " by Rubinstein and in the " Blue Danube " waltz although in this şhe did not impress me as much as one of the three sisters Veisenthal , who looked like a veritable driaid of the Danube in her blue and green draperies . In a morsel of an encore , Miss Allan was a sheer delight , Her company is made complete with Miss Alice Lonnon , who gave a quiet Ingolds by - like recitation dealing with the love of Pyramus and Thšsbe , and some dozen other items , grave and gave . She is quite a good reciter , with an incisive manner of delivery and a talent for getting laughs , and Mr. Vurgo Kihl , the pianist , who has many technical excellences and a power of expression without any greater temleramental showe There is not the slightest doubt of Miss Allan's success I can only say she earned it .

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