Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-05
PAVLOWA SCORES
GREATEST HIT Of
SEVERAL SEASONS
Incompatible DanSeuSe Trips
Her Way Straight Into the
Hearts Of the Local Public
Music Highly Praised.

Well. Pavlowa came. and all Al
buquerque saw. and Pavlowa con-
quered. However. It must be admit
ted thnt the orchestra, directed by
Theodore sitter, came a close second.
Pnvlowa was great. so was the or
chestra. So We're the male dancers
who assisted the great danseuse and
the ballet In general.
To ask an Albuquerque audience.
or crowd, perhaps, since none Of them
heard the dancing to appreciate
Pavlowa and her ballet as II should
be appreciated is a little too much.
Everyone who saw even fraction Of
the performance was delighted with
the airy grace manifested by each Of
the members Of the troupe and dis
played In surprising quantity and
charm by Pavlowa herself. Everyone
was entranced by the music. even the
most barbarian of the philistines who
came out OF curiosity alone, but only
those who had undergone some course
OF education In the appreciation Of
dancing could do more than say ITS
great" after the performance,
ut Was Great"
II was great. but that word fails
to do any sort of justice to the
dancer. her supporting company the
orchestra. or the costumes. The
scenery nobody noticed. II was there,
and more or less everyone knew ii
was there, because there were few
moments while Pavlowa was not on
the stage when one had time TO ex-
anime mere scenery but no one wor-
ried about II.
The characteristic which struck
most after Pavlowa's wonderful
grace and airy lightnes. and the grace
of the ballet in general, was the SUI
perb physique Of every member, male
as well as female. There were doubt
less some persons there, more or less
close to the orchestra chairs, who a.
tended soltly TO observe the lower
half of the female members Of the
party. These persons missed consid-
erably more than three-fourths Of the
show, for the upper halves Of the Ia
dies of the party might be considered
remarkably comely In some instances
and well above the average as a
whole. while the male members we're
a real treat in themselves. To see
a man whose gray hair, displayed
later. proved him beyond middle age.
lift a normally heavy woman high
into the air and carry her across the
stage with the lightness that M. Clus-
tine displayed in performing this feat,
ia pretty good guarantee of physi
cal ability--better physical ability, by
far. than the average man of 40 can
show. And beside this, there was
very little in the way of avoirdupois
in the neighborhood of the waist-line
of any OF the men.
"Pa,lowa is Aging"
One young man in the audience
commented that Pavlowa was getting
old. Well, there are others. Some of
them don't conceal 1t half as well as
busy admring her to think of her
age. The head usher declared Pax
lowa's dancing was fine example of
refined art" And everybody that
knows Dan Philips knows what that
meant!
Anyway, even If Albuquerque didn't
know all there was to know about
ballet dancing. or interpretative dan
cling, or classical dancing or whatever
else its right name was, Albuquerque
likes the Pavlowa brand and hopes
to have more of Sit