New-York tribune., 1920-10-19
Mime. I 'avl0wa
Dances at Navy
Club Benefit
Two BalIets and Seven Di-
veriissemenis on Program
Are Marked by Artistic
Merit of the Performers
S'La PERI Is a Novelty
Dancer Portrays Supreme
Beauty OF Art on Return AZ
ter Several Years Absence

Anna Pavlowa returned to New York
last evening after an absence of sew
eral years. The celebrated dancer be-
gan weeks engagement at the Man
haitian Opera House with benefit
performance for the Navy Club Last
evening marked the anniversary of her
New York debut, October IS, 1910, at
the Metropolitan Opera House.
There were two ballets and seven di-
vertissements on the program. In the
first ballet, "Amarila," a tale of the
unrequited love of gypsy maid for a
cod-blooded aristocrat Nine. Pavlowa
has been seen here before.
The second ballet was novelty.
This was La Peri dance poem ar
ranged by Ivan Clustine, with music
by Paul Dukas. As the program said,
"the scene is laid in fairy realm Of
the mystic East fairyland a la
Bakst, designed by H. Stowitts, with a
fantastic garden, bright with many col
ored flowers of gorgeous and clashing
hucs, against background of purple
mountains.
La Peri a Novelty
The Peri is sleeping in bower be-
meath trees that grow only in the i'm
aginaton Of modern designers of stage
settings. To the garden comes Iskan-
der, King of Iran. searching for the
flower Of Immortality, which the Peri
holds in her hands. In his eagerness
to snatch the flower the monarc h
awaHens the fairy. After an elaborate
struggle, which permits both to do
some graceful posturing, the king is
left to die, while the Peri disappears
far up the mountain.
Both IN the old and the new ballet
Pavlowa revealed the supreme beauty
OF her art. Surely no dancer has ever
made motion so eloquent She remains
what she was when she was first seen
here, incomparable the essence ,of
beauty and grace, the incarnation Of
poetry in dancing In the first ballet,
when she mined the passlon-swept
gypsy girl, her 1.-the, orange clad body
was like a fame in the swiftness and
intensity Of her movements. In the
second, a fascinating vision in green
and shimmering silk, with 4 conc
shaped hat topped with gay pink
streamers, She was eXQuisitciy idyllic
Tho surrounding company, which had
its chance in "Amarilla,' is a fine one.
The young women have youth and
freshness The leading male dancer,
Mir Nolinine, pleased With his agility
in leapug and grace in posturing.
There %cre charming dances by peas
ants and the nobility dressed in the
costumes Of Watteau's day Mr..
Stowitts, who besides designing the
costumes and scenery for La Peri,
took the part of the king, was inclined
to be a better designer than dancer
but, perhaps there will se better OPP
pcrtunities Of Judging him in the lat
ter capacity during the week. The cx-
ccllent CONDUCTOR Theodore Sder, is
again in charge Of the orchestra.
Gifts Asked for Navy Club.
The feature of the advertisements
which included "Obertass," "N oiccs of
Spring 'IIolland Dance "Picrrot," i"
"Greck Dance" and a new syrian
Dance was the familiar and exquisite
"Swan" with Saint-Saens $ music. Nc
more perfect revelation of Nine. Paw.
lowa's art can be conceived
In honor of the benefit the theater