Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-27
GREATEST L|v|NG DANCER
THRILLS HUGE AUDIENCE
Anna PavIowa and Splendid Com
pany Present Brilliant Performs
ance at Academy.
REMAINS FAvoRITE
STATS OF Two Governors in Rcsplen-
dent Uniforms, With Large Party
OF Officials Of Two States, and
Football Players Occupy Boxes.
NY DOUGLAS GORDON.

joyous monday In Richmond ycster-
day, football was the nll.nbsorbinc
subject and It's immediate local mani
festation thing of glory or of sor-
row. But to the comparative few,
numerous though they were. tho day
was significant because thoy saw Paw
Iowa dance. And to these the day will
DO memorable, because while the
others saw another Of long series OF
Gaines. they saw for the first time
most OF them-thc greatest exponent
Of great art In all the world.
Before the Governor OF North Car
DINA and the Governor OF Virginia;
before the dance worn, ball-scarred
veterans of their military families and
before an audience that occupied every
one of the 1000 seats in the Academy
OF Music last night. Pavlowa danced
And when she danced all the statell-
tho beauty OF all the women, and all
The radiance OF q house dressed. al
most to the last seat In the top gall
iery-all were forgotten.
We had seen Russian dancers of the
Imperial Dallet-Schmolz, Kuhn. PIas-
kowiezka-and we had seen the
worid-famcd Gcnee, but last night wc
saw-Pavlowa. Artists all, they are,
but there Is only one Pavlowa. In
comparable. unapproach ablc, she
stands alone, and last night she drew
upon all the resources OF her art to
mako the night most notable. Beside
her, tho others fade into clever dane
crs--cvcn Genee becomes u marvellous
toe-dancer. Because she has ut her
command all the virtuosity. the sheer
;.chnic that Is Genee's; she has the
slenderest, most softly rounded form
that ever swayed and glided. tripped
and whirlcd. CLEANED and foatcd to
the music OF the masters, and. In adj
dit!on. she has the power that lies
only in an artist In one who enters
A. Ia ~.
dancc-sho expresses all things.
Whether she dances the swift, stac-
cato measuras of the Fairy Doll that
size ie: whether she wh!ris. Hike q
Maenad. through the wild unrestraipt
OF Tie Autumn Bacchanale. or whether
she iiuttcra. trembles and quivcrs into
{. heap OF white. fcathercd .death-aa IN
the pitiful. choking. little tragedy Of
the Swan--shc conveys the embodiment
OF n thought OF a feeling. go clearly
that It forces Its way into the senses.
But, besides the wonder that is
rayiown--or. rather. even without that
the performance would etill have
been the most brilliant OF It's kind that
has ever been secn here, or In the
South. for that matter: for the roster
OF ber company included some of the
finest danccrs OF the dag.
Voiln.ne. who made his fourth ap-
pearance here yesterday, Is, It is said.
considered the first classic dancer.
among men. on the stnge--it Will be
remembered that AIordkin is u char
actc- dancer. And to many OF us
certainly TO him who expresses the
"onc-nan opinion"--tc remains the
most wonderful OF all the dancers, not
even excepting Pavlowa herself. He
Is not pretty man"-for which, inf
mite thanks.-but he Is literally a
beautiful man, in the sense In which
a perfect Bit OF statuary OF u man Is
beautiful. Bu; he is not bit OF statu-
nry--not he! He is rs graceful as any
not he. He is as graceful AZ any
woman that ever danced, as light ae
though, he had not the figure of an
athlete, and rs swift In his grace as n
fash Of light. When ne and Pavlowa
danced together 1t was as though all
music and beauty and poetry had COM
bined to blend their two figures into
one almost incredibly perfect express
SION OF their common art
Stcphanic PlashowlcZliai and Stasia
Kuhn, one very blonde and the other
very bruno, would--either OF them
afford Infinite delight without Pavlowa.
without Voiininc. They are both solo
iancers OF a high order, both-likc all
he Russian dancers--pa ntomimists eN-
'raordinary, and both OF them appeared
time and again IN the innumerabio
dances that formed the most spectacu-
ear. as we'll as the most artistic, event
az many seasons.
Mr.. Orkrainsky q young man. who,
n the afternoon. was seen a 8 Apollo ip
:hc ballet. ''Flora's Awakening," pre-
scented. last night, the strangest dance
.urely' that may he seen on the stage
to-day. Stripped, almost TO n pai- OF
Trunks, his body was stained u light
brown, and he danccd-barefooted don
als toes. a Persian dance 1t was
programmed. II was very wonderful
snd very horrible.
Mr.. Kobcleff. In n costume very like
MT nty mir In kt. ,T111Iy
Niolottc," danced with two girls num-
Der that aroused the house TO immense
enthusiasm. Apd-but lack Of space
forbids mention Of all of the men and
women who contributed so largely to
the rare performances
Ivan Cuisine, 1t is understood, de-
serves all praise for having staged the
various dances; it lis rather a pity that
he didn't conilne himself to directing.
Besides the stars, there was a
Chorus" of some thirty, one would say.
contpining more pretty women than
furthermore, all those pretty women
were 5aiso accomplished dancers, ais
We're the men WHO danced with them.
Again, there wac an orchestra of about
twenty FIVE men. who, also. were artists
particularly the first violin. Under
the able direction of Theodore Sticr,
the. urche stra. alone offered a whole
evening entertainment. ~
IT. is Impossible to go at length into
he programs presented in tho after
noon and evening, The matinee per-
fortpancc was somewhat shorter than
that at night. and several ofithe pro-
grammed numbers were omitted,
though there remained enough to make
a doZun ordinary performances The
principal ballet in the afternoon was
based upona dreamy NEUROLOGICAL sub
ject. while that at night, 1.-THE
Fai.y DOLL was a humorous Cop
peiia." For both performances, the
social dance feature was .the same. but
at might the special dances-"diver-
tissements"--were probably moro in
teresting and varied
But II doesn't matter about the pro-
grapls-Paylowa danced! And for this
artistic treat Richmond again has to-
thank Mrs. Mary Pace Groner
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