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...cheered, and called back a dozen times. So excited was U. S. Minister William M. Jardine that he violated a sacred tradition of the opera house, went back stage to congratulate her. Minister Jardine knew something of her story. Though her immigrant parents had shaken their heads, Anna Turkel had left her home and the seven younger Turkels in Woonsocket. R. I., had gone to Manhattan with a nebulous notion of studying singing. To pay for her living she got a job as candy clerk in the Metropolitan Opera House. During the acts she would sneak downstairs to listen...
...them in a jail, a Catholic home, a welfare institution. Then he conferred anxiously with Attorney General Bennett and Lawyer Samuel Seabury, the referee in charge of the State's investigation of the city courts. Upshot: back went all but one of the girls to Bedford. The 48th, one Anna Peltz, whom the New York World described as "a buxom girl of 19 with a wiggling walk," was left in town to be retried as a test case...
...Died. Anna Pavlova, 45, Russian danseuse; of pleurisy; at The Hague...
Like the great actress Eleonora Duse, the great dancer Anna Pavlova last week died in a hotel, on tour, in a strange country.* In France, near Dijon, a railroad accident kept her waiting for hours in an unheated train. She caught cold and by the time she reached The Hague, planning to dance there, influenza had developed, also pleurisy. Death came swiftly, in three days. Operations and injections were useless. Pavlova's heart was weak. On the third day she roused from a coma and spoke to Victor Dandre, her husband and accompanist. She thought she was herself again, high...
...great was the renown of Anna Pavlova that, like Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, she attracted thousands who had no particular interest in her art. For 20 years and more she was a world figure. She danced for Tsar Nicholas II, for Emperor Frances Joseph of Austria, for Emperor William II of Germany, King Albert of the Belgians, King Alfonso of Spain, King Edward and Queen Alexandra. She danced for Europeans, for Americans, for Chinese and for Zulus, toured in all 350,000 miles. Next year she had intended to return to the U. S., to make some 80 appearances. Because...