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...them, grand material for a U.S. ballet. He confided his ambition to design such a ballet to Morris Gest, producer; also discussed plans by which he was to design scenery and costumes for a new play by D'Annunzio, Italian poet, starring Ida Rubenstein, famed dancer, staged by Max Reinhardt, produced by Gest. "Those five names are five aces," said Mr. Bakst, "better than any poker hand." Bakst's most renowned sets were those he designed for the Chauve Souris, Boris Godunov, L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune, Salome, Orientale (Pavlowa ballet), Cleopatra and Scheherezade...
...This modern dancing? Ah, it is wild they rush and twist like wild people!" gesticulated Madame Anna Pavlowa, world famous dancer, when asked for her opinion of modern ball-room dancing by a CRIMSON reporter who interviewed her after the performance at the Boston Opera house on Friday night. "Of course, it matters how you do it. Some are nice, yes, very nice,--but the others, they put themselves into it. It must be impersonal." Madame Pavlowa was still in the costume she had worn in her last dance, and on her face was the heavy make-up made necessary...
Last week, Thamar Karsavina, famed Russian dancer, premiere danseuse at the Imperial Ballet at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), made her first appearance in the U. S. at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan. On the same night, another Russian lady, at another theatre, was filling the Manhattan engagements of what is declared to be her farewell tour. Outside that other theatre was displayed an advertisement familiar to five continents, simply worded-the most arrogant advertisement in the world. It read in large letters ANNA PAVLOWA; in small ones, as if the epithet was too indisputable to require emphasis, "The Incomparable." Karsavina...
Isadora Duncan, dancer and political revolutionist, came by air from Russia to Berlin, kept an audience waiting half an hour, apologized for orchestra, director, lack of rehearsal, one thing and another, danced Tchaikovsky Pathétique. After the performance, she said her days of solo dancing were over. Everyone agreed. Now she is going to undertake to pass on her torch. She will open a school in Berlin for children - children of the masses only. She expects about 500 pupils. Some 22 years ago, Miss Duncan first danced in Berlin. The Kaiser did not understand her art. She went...
...opinion of the Prince of Wales as a dancer? I think he is the most wonderful boy in the whole world, and as a dancer, he lives up to my loftiest ideals about...