Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-07


y AM going to island In the Greek Arch.
pelago TO live on bread and onions ana
"a worship beauty
Because my own country doesn't want mo
am renouncing America forever. II has shown
me 1t doesn't want me by allowing me to lose
my fortune here, because 1t does not know art
This season | have lost $4,000 The last time
! paid a visit to my own country had to Dor
row my passage money back
In Europe the Government fosters my art
By giving me aid In this country 1 would he
permitted TO become bankrupt so far as aid
from the rich and powerful is concerned
Those who have the power to foster art in
:h!E country do not do 80. because they are
not Intelligent: Intelligence and taste for the
beautiful are the same. Our Government does
not have It, nor do the persons of great wealth
~ the United States.
So on March and my children are going
back to Greece. There are blue skies and olive
groves. We will go every day 10 the Pantheon
We will enjoy the beauties OF the view from
the Acropolis. We can live cheaply and han.
PLY there, instead Of eXpensively and sorrow.
iuily mere. VIII found colony OF artists. 1T
will be peace colony and will be mild liv-
Ing protest against the horrors Of war For
artists are the light and leaven Of the world
VS. will all dress did the ancient Greeks
and do as they did ! had dreamed of doing
This for New York.
II is the fault Of the Government and the
ricn mat you nave no art here. 1t is not the
iant OF the masses. One day took my chill
The children danced and Schuberts last SYM
phony. the unfinished one, was played. The
great audience sat there and listened sound
essiy 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 Glasses the emotions are
atrophied by the chase for gold!
| look at that wall along the Hudson. the
homes of your millionaires. call It q wall Of
desecration To me it is the symbol of the
city, the poseur among cities. claiming what
ii has not
brought these beautiful maidens over here
Some of them have had for ten years Beau.
thu little German maids, some of them, and
you. would not leave them behind. for in the
streets OF Paris. II they had been overheard
10 speak German, they would not be safe !
bring them all in the first cabin. Not as nv
friends advise. in the second cabin, because !
want them to see and have the best. And
what happens. in my own inhospitabe coun
IT! lhey are detained at Ellis Island for
eight days! Horribly un.Greek Ellis Island,
Mhat 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 nav twelve
hundred dollars night for the mns,c, Az
eight hundred dollars for the printing! / had
some striking posters announcing the Diony-
sion, and was unable to have them printed!
They say they are not--decent! So art ia re
warded. 1t is the history of great art that Ire
apostles suffered. Beethoven was very moor
man. Schubert was very poor man. Both
were bitterly unhappy. should not repine for
myself, but | mourn for my country and the
hopeiessness Of its future in art,
GU nave children. yet you do not appreciate
me health and wonder OF their beauty Release
your children! Release them by letting them
nahce from the time they six years old,
Noi until this is done will you realize the nos
sibllities OF womanhood
49, oh. she is coming. the dancer Of the future,
Inc Tree spirit. who will inhabit the BODY n,
new women. More glorious than any woman
tnat yet mas been! More beautiful than the
egyptian. than the Greek. than the earl,
i'aNan' than all women of past centuries.
the highest intelligence
a -, in the freest body!