The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-03-06

The WeiiknoVsn American Dancer and Idealis,
n AN going 70 an island In the Greek Arch
pelago 10 live on bread and onions ana
worship beauty
Because my own country doesn't want me
/ am renouuClng America forever IL has snov,
me II doesn't want me by allowing me TO lose
my fortune here. because 10 does not know art
This season have lost $4,000 The last time
paid visit 10 my own country I had TO Dor
row my passage money back
In Europe the Government fosters my ART
by giving me aid. In this country / would be
permitted 70 become bankrupt 30 far as aid
from the rich and powerful is concerned.
Those who have the power 20 foster art IN
this country do not do so. because they are
not intelligent Intelligence and taste for the
beautiful are the same. our Government does
hot nave II. nor do the persons Of great wealth
IN the United States.
SO on March I aud my children are going
back TO Greece. There are blue skies and olive
groves We will go every day TO the Pantheon
We VIII enjoy the beauties OF the view from
the Acropolis. We can live cheapIy and han
PLY there, instead Of extensively and sorrow
fully here ] will found colony OF artists Il
viii be a peace colony and will be A mild liz
ing protest against the horrors of war For
artists are the light and leaven Of the world
We will all dress did the ancient Greeks
and do they did / had dreamed OF doing
this for New York
II is the fault Of the Government and the
rich that you have no art here II is not the
iault OF the masses. one day l took my chill
The children danced and Schubcrts last SYM
phony. the unfinished one. was played The
great audience sat there and listened sound
lessly to the end, the tears streaming down
their pale faces. Though they were hungry
they understood And enjoyed, Art appeals
10 the Feelings! The masses restrain their emo
tons. In the classes" the emotions are
atrophied by the chase for goldi
! look at that wall along the Hudson, the
homes OF your millionaires 7 call 10 a wall OF
uesecratlon. To me It is the symbol OF the
city. the poseur among cities. claiming what
brought these beautiful maidens over here
Some OF them / have had for ten years Beau
tiiul little German maids, some Of them and
would not leave them behind for in the
streets OF Paris. II they had been overheard
TO speak German. they would not he safe
bring them all In the first cabin Not as my
friends advise, in the second cabin because /
want them 10 see and have the best And
what happens, in my own iuhospitabIe couu
UyE lhey are detained at Ellis Island for
eight days Horribly un-Greek Ellis Island,
What blow TO their sense Of beauty What
an awakening from their dreams of America
And then lost $4,000,
gave exhibitions OF their dancing AT the
Metropolitan Opera House. / had to nav one
thousand dollars a night / must pay twelve
hundred dollars night for the musicl And
eight hundred dollars for the printing, I had
some striking posters announcing the Diony-
sion, and ] was unable To have them urinted'
iney say they are uOt-deCenti So art IS r.
"arded. u IS tho history OF great art that lis
apostles suffered. Beethoven was a very poor
man Schubert was a very poor man Both
were bitterly unhappy. ! should not replue for
myself nut ! mourn for my country and the
hopelessness of its future In art
You have children. yet you do not appreciate
the healih and wonder Of their beauty Release
your children Release them by letting them
dance from the time they are six wears ola
Not until this is done will you realize the DOS
sibilites Of womaHhOod
on. she is coming. the dancer Of the future,
Inc Fee spirit, who will inhabit the body OF
new women. More glorious than any woman
mat yet has been, More beautiful than INC
Egyptian, than the Greek. than the earl
Iaian' than all women OF past centuries
the highest intelligence
IN the freest body,