Word: pavlova
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...support, funds were low in the Hoffman house. Malvina Hoffman earned money to continue her art studies by designing book jackets, wall paper, linoleum. In Paris she became a pupil, later a good friend of aging Auguste Rodin, won her first real fame with a bronze of Anna Pavlova as a dancing bacchante. Her best known works since then have been three heads of Ignace Paderewski (The Statesman, The Artist, The Friend), the colossal stone figures over the entrance to London's Bush House and the recumbent crusader that is Harvard's War Memorial...
...ballerinas who fetch the most applause are Tamara Toumanova, Tatiana Riabouchinska and Irina Baronova, all in their teens. Toumanova, a dark-skinned Caucasian, was born on a train in Siberia as her parents were attempting to escape from the Revolution. At 7, in Paris, she was praised by Pavlova who gave her a bouquet; Toumanova still cherishes its withered leaves and dried-up blossoms...
...Pavlova have been able to forget her impersonation of the swan, a creature who first hovered lightly on her toes, typified all Death when she crumpled to the floor in a motionless mound of tarlatan and feathers. Last week at the Regal Theatre in London Pavlova danced again, in a series of cinema films linked together and called The Immortal Swan. Producer was her husband, Victor Dandré, who was releasing the pictures for the first time to raise funds for a Pavlova Memorial Fountain to be executed by Swedish Sculptor Carl Milles on a site already approved in London...
...audience sat reverently quiet through the showing of two full-length ballets, eleven solos. Music was played by the London Symphony, conducted by Vladimir Launitz, onetime Russian aviator, who once was Pavlova's musical director. Effects on the screen were sometimes hazy. Many of the pictures had been taken in 1923, some in South America, some in Australia. But it was still possible to marvel at the dancer's incomparable grace, that ethereal quality which made it seem as if she floated through...
Most effective was the Swan Dance, filmed by Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford when Pavlova visited them in Hollywood in 1930, a few months before her death. Strangest shot was one taken by Dandré in Pavlova's garden in Hampstead which showed her in a simple gingham dress, stretched out on the flagstones beside a pool and talking to a pet swan. Dandre hid behind a bush to take the picture with a small sound camera, recorded his wife's curious, high-pitched voice as she called: "Come on, Jack, come Jacko, oh darling." Members...