New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-21

time TO New York which does not banker
FOR their way OF expressing the emo
tons
Even the other evening when particu-
larry fanciful looking coterie of people
were assembled in the cafe eating late
supper there were several who put on
practical expressions and became notice
ably busy with tho choicest dainty before
them during the spell Of Miss Payne's
dancing. There were some. though, whose
forgotten forks were held suspended be
tween dish and mouth with the tit-bit
POISED thereon I'm danger Of losing It's
balance. And there were several head
and shoulder effects seen over the balus-
trade of the balcony In various attitudes
OF pleasure, with eyes following every
leap and pose OF tho dancer. as she was
picked out by the colored lights playing
on her from above.
Ivy Payne Is a natural dancer that Is.
she Is untaught. Perhaps that idea OF
lack OF training and study does not APP
peal TO the thoughtful. But in the case Of
this particular youngster Il is different.
because she does not intend TO DC taught
or 10 compete with trained dancers In
their own field. Here is her story as she
told Il herself the other night, sitting Ell
deux at a table in the balcony OF the cafe
between dances. See II Il Is NOT trif'e
odd.
She was brought up by her grand
parents In Australia. and with the dawn
and recognition Of her feelings and nature
she realized slowly that she had dance In
her and that her lot had been long since
cast for the stage. Her grandfather was
one OF those 10 whom the stage means
practically nothing but moral ruin and
social os,racism. So the child swallowed
dance and turned her face from the stage.
In 1908 she went travelling TO California.
In Australia she had felt out the
world, but California at once became
paradise to her dreams. While there she
got as far as speaking OF the secret de-
sire that was almost strangling her-the
desire for dance expression and acting
and she was offered several advantageous
openings. where at the age she was then
she could have trained into the require
nents OF the dancer. principally the toe
work, which must be begun In childhood
But the stage was an impossibiIity, so she
shook her head at II all and went back at
the appointed time TO Australia.
A couple of years later her grandfather
died. Somehow then the imperishable
want started up in tho girl more per
sistently than ever, and she appealed 10
her grandmother. Grandmothers often
seem not TO have lived in vain. They
gather balance somehow from their var'-
Gus experiences. This particular grand
mother said: ~ YOU want to so much,
20 ahead" And Ike a bali out OF the
mouth Of cannon Ivy was of for Cali
fornia. That was last fall.
She danced for private entertainments
and the like out there for several months.
and was then advised to come East for
wider opportunities. II the opportunities
for the interpreter of music by means OF
the dance are considered wide IN New
York by those who live on the west coast
what must they he out there?
knowing no better tho ambitious
young dancer applied to several highly
broadway" types Of musical shows and
was refused at a glance and immcdi
alclN upon iitl SdN illts llAiN hNi WIN NhS
along the lines Of the classical. Antra's
Tanz for roof garden show. No
chance. and she wondered why
The little dancer was here in the city
only about three weeks, when the op-
portunity to dance among the softened
lights in Bustanoby's was offered her, and
she jumped at 1t. \ cafe-restaurant was
not the stage, but, after all. one cannot
get the heights and depths OF ones
wish all at once, and to be in so fair
way toward getting 1t as Ivy Payne Is
now is doing well for beginner. For
an ever widening circle OF the interested
is spreading from the cafe as a central
point and there are constantly new ones
being brought to see by others who call
themselves "discoYerers."
Besides the Gricg music already re-
ferrcd 10 and such music as Strauss
Blue Danube" waltz, the music OF
Faust and others OF the French and
Italian operas, Miss Payne has origlnat-
cd dance which she calls the South
Sea Island dance. the steps and moves
OF which arc based on the native dances
of the South Seas, which Miss Payne has
seen and with which she is familiar
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