The San Francisco call., 1910-12-05
PAVLOWA DANCES
To tune OF Time
Manager Holds Watch in Hand
in Wings of Valencia as
Big Audience EncOres
UnmindfuI of IS. R. O." House
Waiting at San Jose,
Danseuse Continues
By WALTER ANTHONY

You were certainly a great audience
yesterday afternoon at the Valencia
theater. All Of US on the stage, where ]
slowed myself away. were proud ot
you. Though the police department. was
anxious out in front, where the auto
mobiles were lined up. and frowned and
said nay" 10 many an anxious solicitor
for space room inside. and though
Green baum put his foot down firmly on
many a fair request for just one more
breathing place within the portals
where danced PavIOwa and Mordkin
and though the Valencia bulged with
YOU all. there was nothing we on the
stage could say Of you but kind words
You not only applauded in the right
place and often enough TO please the
most temperamental Of US. You stood
part OF you in the aisles and at the
back Of the house patiently between
numbers and never left your places,
Only one complaint we have 10 offer,
and that is this: You kept the dancers
at theft F-et4s- tasks too long for the
comfort Of Count Centanfni, the man
aging director of th:s organization He
pulled his watch increasingly and won
dered how he was TO get Pavn-Yea and
MOrdkin and the dancing satellites sur
rounding them down TO San Jose in
time for the performance scheduled
there last night for a house sold out in
advance You applauded bit too long,
and the count did not. believe me. enjoy
the eight curtain calls that Mile Paw
Iowa and MOrdlzin took at the con-
clusiOn of the pantomime ballet,
"Giselle,' nearly as much as did the
dancers.
It was interesting TO watch the per
formance from the wings. There were
trio of stage deities there. not count
.ng MOrdkin, who with bis head thrown
back is like a Greek god. From where
] stood I glimpsed Lillian Russell in the
front row. She was adoring Pavlowa-
anybody could see that Across on the
other side OF the stage, and hidden Un-
der a frame which supported a spot
light, sat in huddled position little
LopokoVa- the Russian dancer recently
al the Orpheum. Pavlowa told me be-
tween dances shes the cleverest SOU
brette dancer in Russia" Lopokova
told me of Pavlowa after the latter
had finished the mad scene" in eau
tiers "Csiselle," "she is wonderful and
Mordkiu is wonderful. and what a big
public is here"
Madame Mordkin, who on the pro-
gram is Nile. Brenislawa Pajitkaia,
was the only sad one behind the scenes.
She slipped and fell in Los Angeles and
which she made known TO ME more by
pantomime than by words, and to add
70 her distress she had lost the prop
erty" chain and pendant she wore in
Giselle" and had TO carry her lorgnette
on her own golden chain, from which
she had not time to detach a locket
bearing the image of the Virgin and
child. For this she was very sorry. II
did not seem right, she explained, TO
wear SO sacred a relic while dancing
Perhaps she would slip again, she said.
] reminded her it was sunday, but the
assurance bore no comfort.
They are children. all of them. Paw
Iowa danced with delight between her
numbers, and the curtain, had il been
quicker, would have caught her at it.
Mordkin was no less delighted, and
Nine Mordkin shone in sympathetic
pleasure and forgot. I hope all about
the talisman which she regretfully
wore