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Enthusiastic dance-addicts crowded Symphony Hall 'Tuesday evening, to see the first Boston appearance of Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi, (pronounced, incidentally, Yorghi). Small wonder at the enthusiasm, because this German couple came heralded with more superlatives than usual,--the leading exponents of the Modern Dance, the world's greatest dancers...
...whole program would be the effeminate, pretty sort of thing that expresses nothing and gives those who are in the know an intellectual kick. The audience bore with them, however, and was amply rewarded by some of the most thrilling works of art that it had ever seen. Kreutzberg and Georgi were on the crest of the wave from the moment he did his masterly "Revolte". And they stayed there for the rest of the program, rising to their greatest heights in a Debussy interpretation, "Romantic Scene", "Three Mad Figures", "Persian Song" and "Russian Dance...
Famed male dancers are the Russians Mikhail Mordkin and Adolph Bolm, the American Ted Shawn, the Japanese Michio Ito and the German Harald Kreutzberg. Kreutzberg, who, according to many, leads them all today, is 24. He was once a designer for a small fashion magazine, then a dance pupil of the modernist Mary Wigman, then head of the Hanover Opera ballet. He came first to the U. S. last year with Max Reinhardt's players and last fortnight he came again, with Danseuse Yvonne Georgi, for a series of performances under the management of that doughty oldtime stage-lady...
Last week, among many notables who applauded Kreutzberg in Manhattan, were German Ambassador and Frau von Prittwitz, Playwright Noel Coward, Actress Beatrice Lillie, Singers Maria Jeritza and Mary Garden, and Mrs. Vincent Astor. They saw a young hairless-headed fellow make swift, strange pictures to music by Chopin, Scott, Wilckens, de Falla, Satie. They saw him clown with Stravinsky and go gibbering mad with Prokofieff. So enthusiastic was Ambassador Prittwitz that he took steps to arrange a recital in Washington. Dancer Kreutzberg and the bright, wispish Georgi will go thence to Chicago, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Boston...