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...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...
...kills," Madame Pavlowa turned to the much-discussed spiritual effect of modern dancing. "It does not raise you as dancing should,--it kills you. I do it myself, one-step, two-step, and I see the people in these big hotels, like where I stay, the Plaza, is it? When you do it as they do, you do not go up, you go down, do you not feel that yourself? And the music this jazz! It is too noisy, too harsh. It might do for the grotesque, for clowns and acrobats. It has a rhythm...
...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 is the only woman who has ever been capable of challenging the justice of that epithet. How rash was her challenge? A large audience went to see. For them she danced. In chevelure...
Manhattan Opera House. The Manhattan Opera House, last week, had the distinction of presenting two artists who give place to none in the position they hold in the eyes of the public. First came Anna Pavlowa, for a "farewell season." The instrument of her return was a ballet based on Cervantes' Don Quixote, Mme. Pavlowa taking the dual role of the Barcelona innkeeper's daughter and Dulcinea del Toboso. When she made her initial entrance among more than 80 other performers, she was at once recognized; and the Manhattan audience shook with enthusiastic applause for five minutes...
...would be difficult to discover a nation, mood, or musical composer who could find no place on a Pavlowa-program...