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to art to diaGliiee herself In such a way
She sinks into the room. As soon as
begins TO tell her Of his love. This duet
= merely the prelude to her dance, which
furnishes the excuse for the play.
The Apache puts his arms about
her neck and draws the girl close to him
until their lips meet, The two stand
begin to move TO the music OF slow
dance. There IN no suggestion Of
waltz step. He merely moves the girl
about In one direction and another, hold
ing her 50 closely to him that Il seems
impossible either could breathe. He
strokes her hair with an expression OF
affection.
Then he suddenly hur!s her from him
with force that drives her along the
ground half the length OF the stage. She
old sOliver Twist melodrama used TO
crawl after BN Skies and clutches him
about the legs ntreatingly. He shakes
her on, only to clutch her up to his bosom
again, just as he is about TO caress her
again he suddenly changes his mind and
hurls her away from him. She holds on.
however, and another passionate embrace
is followed up by the attempt to strike her
In the face.
He holds her head close to his. There
OF the girl. She shows her alteration in
every struggle TO get back to him
and In her effort to make him respond to
her gentler arts OF love. His is the
Apache way OF loving. and he insists on
conquering In his own manner.
The thin arms OF the girl are sometimes
stretched out like the claws Of a bird, and
the evident force with which she is sent
spinning along the stage accounts for her
emaciated appearance. Any woman who
could 60 through suoh an ordeal twice
would be a physical marvel.
10 is not until the entrance Of the charac-
ter supposed to be the rival OF her new
lover that the tone OF the piece gets
intolerably unsavory. Then comes the
favor. and that ends in the revelation that
the whole affair is merely devised to
swindle the English visitors who think
they are seeing night life in Paris and not
. play arranged for their benefit. This
explanation does not come bit too soon
There are few elements ~ "awness that
this glimpse OF Paris life -.
The other view OF Pari e that sur
"ounded the Apache dane, revealed on
this satne day: was less sordid 1t was
capital OF France that led the enthusiastic
American visitor 70 say defiantlv to the
capital that lay stretched before the Care
Saint Iazare. Now, bring on your gay
PareeS
This scene OF Paris by night passes not
far from the Moulin Rouge. There is
the usual story along with the struggle
between two girls for the love Of the
Apache who finally expresses his feelings
definitely TO one by the waltz which
feet into the air while her head almost
touches the ground and makes live again
the kind OF affection that existed in the
days OF marriage by capture. How popu-
lar such a method Of proposing might be
10 suggested by the delight with which
aNNAiAnaAa n ma n fhA
that her Apache makes OF Mino Minar.
the victim OF the strenuous love and dance
in the play Of Paris by Night"
The frat man who transferred the Paris
and is. bv the way. the husband OF Mime.
Minar. This is @. Molasso. who in ap-
pcarance remains the type of the Paris
rough and cutthroat. He was the first to
dance with The Queen OF the Moulin
Rouge. and reveal the Apache school
is at il still with The Queen OF the Moulin
ROUGE and training other companies
incidentally to carry this dance of truth
and beauty to other cities is a measure
OF his skill.
II has happened that what the -Salome-
dance was last winter to the average
burlesque show that went on the road
the Apache episode has become this
season. That II should have become
comprehensihle 70 American audiences
occasional mysteries OF theatrical ex-
perience that make managers wary in
their effort 20 decide what their public
will like.
Il may be that present interest in the
criminal has helped the Apache dance
to SUCCESS in this country as well as Eu-
rope. Highbrow students of the theatre
have found that public sympathy not
only goes out now to such persons as
.4rssne LaD.n and his lot but goes to the
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criminal gets the best of il in the end
There Ia only the criminal element In the
Apache dance TO make IL picturesque, for
the inevitably plain dress Of the men and
the women deprives il OF any spectacular
Paris has sent another dance which has
no feature In common with the Apache, but
which shared it's popularity in Paris. At
the Rat Mcrt and the Abbaye they have
been for the last two years dancing the re-
markable waltz which in much changed
form was seen last season withAnna Helds
company. The origin OF this waltz is said
TO be Spanish. II has none of the brutality
OF the Apache dance even in the modified
show here. Its general effect may per-
haps be described by saying that it re-
semblee two persons setting out TO dance
an ordinary waltz and then pausing every
few seconds for brief period OF exercise
at that somewhat discredited sport known
persons indulging in any such diversion
In any but Oriental dress is not of strictly
decorous nature and IL was not intended
perhaps for any other public than that
which enjoyed IL in the midnight cafes OF
Paris. So it's acclimatization has been
somewhat slower than that OF the Apache
dance. which had a dramatic element
that the other lacked.
IL Is interesting TO note how one dance
Of this kind produces its brood OF copies.
The kO-CAlled vannDira dannA which Alina
Els did 30 successfully that she and Ed
ward French, who performed IL with her,
were called to Europe and are now dano-
ing In London with great success, would
never have existed but for the Apache
dance before 1t. A slight difference in
dress. however. would have made them
as completely Apache as could have been
desired. Then Rock and Fulton while
they were back at their old vaudeville
stunts did hypnotic dance without any
great emphasis Of its psychology and
much more thought OF It's beauty and ex-
pertnees than any OF these other dancers