New-York tribune., 1884-02-02
THE DECAY OF THE BILLET

Paul Taglioni, who died in Berlin on jan. :,
had been f.y-eight years in the service Oh 'no
Theatre there On November a, 1870 nc ceieoeu ,,o
Golden Jubilee and the occasion was MADE
one hy an extraordinary gathering OF persons
,e ar,s TINT are allied to the drama, by some OF the
incidents of the celebration and by the wealth lovshed
on the old choreographer in the shape OF glls INC
celebration took place IN the conceroom of the Koyai
Opera Besides the great and little odHertne Oh 'no
ROYAL ballet delegates from the operas and the theao'
OF many other cities we're present. and among inc ee
oranho messages Of congratulaon one from Fanny
Esler then herself sxty-hve years Old but hale ana
hearty. The old dance-maser's wife was also present.
and his daughters Marie Tagnoni tthe Princess Win
dischgratzl and Auguste Taglion an actress in the
Court Theatre at Berlin. Addresses were read irom
Vienna, Naples, Milan, Madrid st. petersburg anu
London; the chorus OF the Opera sang motet Ioto
grisse Dich ~" the Emperor sent decoration touci VI
the Crown third elass and Cabinet document reiauVe
10 life pension and speeches nnumerable were made'
Under the accumulated load OF honors the ola man pore
himself up long enough to say that he had lived IN er
many only fifty years and consequently had no wols 10
express his feelings"
The death of Paul Taglion reminder OF the gorles
that have departed from the ballet Once 1t dominated
the theatre and crowded play and opera INTO the DacA
ground The elder vests could reprove his son for not
having performed his duty by dancing before the King OF
Sweden when the Queen OF France had performed hers
by asking him TO do so y; he wanted no misunderslahu
ing between the houses of Vestrs and OF Bourbon which
had hitherto lived ON the best of terms" Theresa
Eusler sister OF the great Fanny. vas only one OF
MANY that danced themselves into the peerage she
married Prince Adalbert OF Prussia Long before her
time Barbarina, q famous Italian oauerfna who nad
married Lord Stuart Mackenzie became the iavorle OF
Frederick the Great had TO be included in invitations e1
tended TO the royal person TO dinner ana her oeo's "e
paid by the State and against the head OF the uuck
nriest who married her to Cocceji Illuminated de-
,,pSaO on hTGQ
Then the Kings anger subsidng and his love returning
she was made the Countess .Campanni. lived blame
less married fe built nunnery with her vast wealth.
when her husband died, and entering 1t, became an
Abbess.
lis the boast OF few white-haired heatregOers that
they saw Fanny Eser dance IN this city, but the 1ul
glory of the ballet shone on America Even III
England IL died before Mr. Mapeson began his reign in
JIer Naesty's formerly The Kings. The advertisements
which Mr. Mupleson and Mr.. Abbey give us arc put
ghosts OF the ballet OF the past No one celebrates
dancer now as Thackeray did Tagloni In Tho New
comes" and ueine If alive to-day would scarcely take
commission Tor a new Mephistophela" "The world Is
growing old or at least st the times are ont OF joint,
and Eurore has almost given up dancing. wrote an
English Journalist paraphrasng the complaint OF klta
sangai and then he expressed what had brought II
about In England We quote:
II held we believe, by Mr. Lumley himself mat that
the days of that Pas de Qnate which VIC expended so
much diplomatic talent In organizing foT s,CdI
dancers had their little vaniies and were troubled by
questions precedence even great singers arc sad 70
be In the present days and 1t was the etiquette OF the
ballet that In combined step the most important dancer
who took part in II should appear last 9n1 inc eat I'M
nortant first Who then. in the Pas de Qudre, should
make the first entry dance the first solo u seemed
impossible to decide this a-important point, when
suddenly the ingenious manager suggested that the
younges should This novel principle In stage
dancing having been accepted-probably through the
suddenness with which IL bad been proclaiined-a new
competition arose; and ultimately by balancing the
claims of youth against those OF talent and the claims OF
talent against those Of youth II was found possible 10
effect happy compromise.