, 1873-06-01
MARIE TAGLlONl.

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--zEoxv Qucens Of the Ballet May Re
Good and Grow OId--Erom tho Foot.
| Lights TO the DnncinG-Sch0ol.-AB Back
| Glance OF Thirty Years.
To the Editor af The Ne1o York Herald:
| 4 ta1egraphic fash and ne are told Cfa1se1y) Of
Marie Tagloni'a DEATH "Is it possible pr 81
thought ehe died long ago." IA very great dan
seuse.". Well, well 80 they Co. Who next n
| Such we're the brief comments over the dinner
! table, and quickly the last bribery at Albany
effaced all thought OF, probably, the most ex-
| quisite danseuse that ever lived. ! did not
marvel ,,tat this indifference, for -Taglioni
is but name in America. No vete-
! ran theatra-goer enthusiastically recalls the
divine grace that made her dancing the very
poetry Of motion, yet it was an indifference that
grated harshly upon one who knows her to be
the best Of women and who is proud to call her
friend And il + lay pansy ut her rhythmic
feet it is to inspire in others respect for great
artist, who ia an honor to wonanhood. '.Do
you know have heard that Taglioni is in Lon
DOM" said woman OF society early in the
winter Of 1871. sshe used to be- very intimate
with Lady Morgan, at whose house met her
frequently. She WAS charming, and shall re-
new the acquaintance" So to Bond street my
friend went forthwith, and, from Mitchell, the
Queens bookseller, who is au courant Of every
thing, from the last novel read by Victoria to
the arrival Of tho last artist, ehe OBJ
tanned the necessary information, a few
evenings later, I was invited to q din
ner party at this friends house. On entering
the draring-room recognized al but one Of
the guests. On low chair sat arefned-looking
woman Of IS, dressed in black velvet and lace,
whose dominant CHARACTERISTIC seemed to be un-
obtrusiveness, and who, in consequence, would
at all times and in all places be unobserved un-,
less by the rare few in search Of ladies. ?" Ny
dear" whispered the hosteas, 'ttaat is the great
Tagioni. Come. you must be presented = and,
leading me- to the woman Of whom, I had read so
much, / then and there made her acquaintance.
was in a dazed frame Of mind; for to associate
age and gray hairs with danseuse Is so utterly
homogeneous as to appear impossible. Per-
petuI youth seems to be tho prerogative Of
The herolnes Of the ballet. In the mind Of
an imaginative public to trip the light fam
tastic too means to be always under 30, always
1.-the, always standing With one foot in the
air, always wearing q Beraphic smile upon yot
more Beraphic countonance. TIE eternal fitness
OF things forbfds danseuses to be ever TAT and
forty. You and the imaginative public indulge
in the dolusion that they do not die after the
prosaic manner Of morta1s who walk On their
them they perform their favorite PCS in the
most seductive manner, and then, with fare-
well waivo Of tinyiting arms, vanish " into thin
air." Fancy danseuso with 3 headache, Or 9
sat- talking, With the gzeatest celebrity OF the
ballet, aged 65, and 8 grandmother It WAS
shock to ny nervous system for at least ten
in long dress and an armchair, instead Of be-
tulle and revolving around the idohc man in
tights, whose highest aspiration = .15 Is 70
spin on one leg like q teetotum. At last re-