New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-12

London has tired of Russian dancers
and is taking American opponents Of
the art into its good graces. Adelaide
and Hughes, now headlining at the Pal
ace, have been invited to play half
years engagement at the London En-
pire,, which has hitherto been the con-
servative stronghold of the Russians
and the operate ballet. Genee won her
fame at the Empire, and Pavlowa and
Mordkin, Nijinsky and Ida Rubensten
have all been starred there, but the
managing director now calls for an
American dancing team whose operate,
ballet and stage dancing, dashed
through with the paprika OF the cake
walk and the tango. is all home trained
and American made. 1t takes more
than training, however, 10 achleVe the
success which Miss Adelaide has won
much OF it is due to the charm OF her
personality. 49,. -,
"The minute you go on the stage
she saws, "you are expected 10 kho"
almost everything and to be able TO
talk about all the rest, and the result
is that columns OF newspapers are
filled with serious accounts OF now we
maintain the beauty that often is lack
ing. and how we make the pies we
never bake. and how we play the games
we never learned; but woe upon the
actress if she says, Il don't know any
thing about it," She may discuss,
willy-nilly, she may talk around 1t or
get somebody else TO put 1t into WORDS
for her. but she must know 1t all or
she isn't a regular actress. ne.
"What's more" she continued, II
YOU don't talk on every subject the
harmless, necessary press agent does
n for YOU, and then you have dliii-
cult time trying TO answer the letters
besieging you with demands for Deauty
hints Won have mentioned or beratlnS
vou for recipes that offend the very
eve of the real cook, and so the actress
Of to-day must study not only her
roles and human emotions, her dane
ing steps and her pantomine, but she
must be walking encyclopedias, e1.
pert on beauty, fashion and COOKING
II can be done, however, for MISS
Adelaide proves il, since she can Cos
sin on a hundred different subjects,
touching them lightly or earnestly, as
her mood may be; but then she herself
admits that she is always studying,
and deplores the fact that she Is TO go
without the vacation she counted upon
in the spring.
"Stape producing is my real protcs-
sion" She says. Dancing, OF course,
is NV present msinstay, but the thlhg
that take seriously, the thing that my
ambition is in and that | hope 10 90
some day on big and artistic scale, ID
to produce plays and musical comeaieS'
You know I think that producing opens
up a big field for women, Just because
women see things so much IN detaI,.
Men get the big effects, but they ms
the exquisite little delicate shades thSt
a woman sees intuitrely, ana IL Is oIi
the Gnenesses that the artistry OF
performance so often hangs. IL Is pc
cause Belasco is largely feminine IN
his nature that he MAKES the niue -
tie points in his productions, and ms
stage settings have very ofteh sa'eu
bad play. .,.u,, ~.
u,o,non will some day make great stage
nrndncers. both for vaudeville and t1e
legitimate. is because women are mad
g., novelty. Look at the way they
dressi The greatest recommendations
-, can make TO a man of his hat Is
~ sav that every man has got one e.
sc.Iy like il, but every woman wants
- oe unlike every other woman's as
IT,. csn get. Our managers, beng men.
sniIo~ each other like sheep. IL one
,JnJnccg sex play, all produce sex
,'ia,s II one produces crime play
,o crime plays, and so ~ goes
hut woman manager WIN a. ~
s,yike out and try for something az
"Gf course, IL sounds concerted toT
IN ssv 40. but am sure that II
led he money and could go 70 hurppe
- nick and choose az our stage pIo-
dmc do would find something on
ferent. would see come Ii'',e u"',J
,bst they have missed, thst ! w w.,
tske and develop into somethIns Us
ave- americans haven't -tampeu Guy
-, "a different nations DO apr"aua =,
~ ~ Rursia, for instance; sec WnSt ~
Ln ~" daoe Tor dancingl IT. to9s me oiu
no paI Italian ballet, when hopo"y,
iy'Td ~ through now, and pfcs'"ng
80 il the Wild, savsge spirt OF ,.'
'rn.,aya. and IL has gwen us our n"s
- dsocers, our PaVlowa, over VIZ" Ill.,,
~" 80 Wild lsgt gesBon. tnins '''e
Ws' ~ IL In the ascendant. Wnllc v Z
'ss'.Gt country are not creative ~ sa,,
% W. . IA, forms and inethoas slIV.
~ by the old World ana give o ."' pna'