The New York herald., 1875-12-26
SPLENDID TRlUMPHS IN PARIS.
Her Repeated Vow to Celibacy
Mysteriously Broken.
GREAT CROREGRAPHIO EVENT OF THE CENTURY.
TagIion. Cerito Grisi and ElssIer in a
Grand Pas de Quatre.
MILAN. Italy. Nov. is. Fp-

MILAN, ftaly, NOV 10, ASso.
Yesterday morning as l standing in shop in
the aleria dl vittorio Emanuele, Italian journalist
who was with me, called my attention a lady buying
some gloves at the counter He said in undertone
"Take good look at her. She is great celebrity
doubt II you have her before She is one OF
lions or, rather, honesses."
A MILANEsE LIoNEss.
As 1t is my vocation to know celebrities, or, rather,
of them gazed at her for timc Il in posi-
tion where could observe without being observed),
wondering who the Mlanese lion could be that had
never beheld Her face being partly concealed by
black lace VEIL could not il to advantage II ap
peared, however, to belong to woman Of perhaps
nfty The features small, but tolerably regular;
the expression pleasant the smile sweet though some
what faded. There was, close observation, certain
made up look as If her hair were dyed, wrinkles
concealed by cosmetics and the trace OF
years carefully concealed by art Still it
very well done, and question IL
had thought OF artfcality had l not inferred from
Sar manner that she was, or had been, an actress
She was plainly but elegantly dressed in a heavy
black silk with bit of lace at her throat her hands
danty goved, and every inch of her toilet fitting her
20 perfection As she passed out and entered her
riage she lifted her skirts, and perceived that her
feet though quite well shaped, large, which
more than counterbalanced by graceful
they had been trained poses and to prettiness
An actress, reflected; and then that gliding undua-
tory motion of the limbs. She must be a dancer So
turned TO my companion and told him my surmsas
you're right, . he replied; 'but
SHE Is'
Do you take her to be the premiere OF La Scala for
the last novelty Of ParsP"
"a take her for nothing but dancer. have the
remotes notion whether she be from Paris Ispahan
but feel confident she has been the stage
where, and for years, too. Am right?'
"You are That woman is Marie Taglioni"
.Ts possibe Is it the renowned, the grand Marie,
who bewitched Paris than forty years ago, and
whose fame spread over both hcmispheres 2"
GREAT
''The very same She resides here half the year and
the other half in her villa the Lake of Como, where
she entertains her friends in luxurious style She is
remarkably well preserved. You would not suspect
her to be beyond seventy. But she is, having been
born the spring of 1904, in Stockholm. There is
nothing Of the Scandinavian in her appearance. She
Is such only by the accident of BIRTH AS her name
denotes, she is Of Italian extraction. Her iather,
Philip Tagloni Manese, having been born here IN
177z He TO the capital of Sweden whom young
man. first dancer and ballemaster at the princi
pal theatre of the city at the time his wife presented him
with daughter You l am familiar with her
career The reason is that biographical
sketch OF her, and the leading facts remain in my
memory"
"was it for your people?" inquired.
ooh, no 1t for publisher in Pars who
getting out volume of notable people We
print any such things in papers The French and
American journals monopolze that kind of literature"
"why don't you print account Of Tagoni now
light gossping accountP 1t would be very readable
everybody has heard Of her and enjoys personality
particularly Of the famous"
81 suppose it would be; but we don't do IT, because
have done II. That's the only reason
think of; the only one, indeed that there 1t is
your line for you are an American. III give you all
the information you want when get back TO the
hoteln
Before we returned we fell to talking OF
THB BALLET,
OF which Tagloni had been the queen Its history is
Comparatively modern in one sense, it is in
another very ancient having been used in old religious
ceremonies. The sacred mysteries OF Paganism
assisted by it, recorded by the Greek authors.
Aristotle speaks OF dancers in his day who, by
ment and gesture, express passions and actions.
Athenaus says that OF them brought their dances
such perfection that the greatest scupors studied
their attitudes in order to reproduce them in bronze
and marble.
The Romans copied the Greeks in this as in every
thing else The ballet in Augustus time, attained
marked excellence. Bathyllus, Hyllas and Pylades
won extended fame By their pantommlc and
choregraphc skill Each had his school, and the eager
rivalry ofpupils and parsans led to serious disturb
anccs in the city. Until the fall Of the Empire such
dancing continued, but only among
When the cstern capital was at By2antium women
began to take part Theodora tthe wife OF Justinan
anerwardl who according to all chronIcers was one
OF the ewedst and crueest OF minxes, performed on
the stage with great success and is thought to have
danced herself into The affections Of the Emperor
There seems 70 have been ballet in the Middle
Ages but at the close Of the fifteenth century, when
Gaeas viscQntl married Istbea Of Aragon spectacle
of the kind met With such favor that It introduced
into several Other countries besides this
France was very fond OF the entertainment Catha-
rine de Mcdic had a grand ballet presented at
pense OF 100000 hvres Henry Nv. enjoyed the
dance, 40 hd Louis XIV. before no became
zeact But the ballet not firmly established
until the beginning OF last century, Noverre,
OF the Paris Academy OF Music having largely con.
iributed 10 that end. He says his "Letters tho
Initiative Arts' that perfect ballet is living picture
Of the manners dresses, ceremonies customs Of all
cations II should be complete pantomime speaking
through the eyes the very soul OF the spectators
II without other aid clearly demonstrate the
INCIDENTS and passions to describe, It is a
divertisement, not ballet III ls only Wltnln NAH
century that women have monopozed the ballet, in
which before chiefly shonc-lke Baldasare vesiris
callod lhe god Of dancing, who subImely con-
ceited that he was say that his age had pro-
duced but three great men, Frederic H., Volaire and
himself.
QUEEN MODERN BALLET
Tagoni may be counted the FIRST grand figure in the
modern ballet for she born before Fannie Elssler
Carioua Grisi Fannie Certo, the quartet Of great
coutcmporaneous dancers and won many Of her aures
ore o single sprig had been placed on any Of THAR