Evening journal., 1921-06-03
SHE WOULD We'd
ENGLISHMAN.
Miss Duncan Famed Terp-
Sichorean's Ideas of Do
nestle Life Change
DELIVERS HAPPIER
THAN DANGERS

DoNDoN--Isadora Duncan has
thought things over Life is cruel
Years ago England was cruel to her.
II LEI her starve.
But this Is her decisions
"If / had my life TO I've ovor
again. think I should marry a nice
Bnglishman and live IN the country
Isadora married TO n quict and 70
tirfng Engiishman and settled for a
whole lifetime IN a secluded noolc m
the hills Is a picture m striking con-
trast with the dancers rather tur-
bulent history.
Il have been motoring in the
country, and when L felt the sun
and saw the primrose Thought that
the people who. after an, get most
happiness are those who work on
the earth and never try to do any
thing else" said Miss Duncan
The boulevards of Paris may vol
be shocked at that And even more
startled at her preference for Lon
don. considering:
81 came to London IN 1888. I
danced like a sunbeam. danced
like an angel in the Fra Angelica
pictures, danced like a streak OF
lightning.
II was lovely. One is always love-
" at is. 1 had, unconsciously. dis
covered this new thing. and 1 danced
for the critics then.
Iinndlady Not An Artist
''WeH. a landlady seized my
trunks. I used TO sit ON the grave
stones IN an old churchyard In Chel-
sea and wonder II wouldn't be bet
ter under the earth
II you would only dance at Lady
So-and-So's,' people told me. your
success would be made
After I had lived on penny soups
for a week I would dance at Lady
So-and-So's and she would after
ward ask II I would like some straw
berries.
'NOnce at Chelsea House somebody
showed me baslxefful of gold.
Look what you have made for the
blind girls, they said, and brought
me cup of tea was starving and
too shy TO ask for a muffin.
Il starved IN London for a year.
then. leaving my grandmother's jew
elry in pawnshops. I went to Paris
and starved there. Then I went to
Berlin and made a SUCCESS
The success, she declares. Was
startling.
after never having enough TO eat
n seemed 50 wonderful to be max
ing $1,000 night that / put an ad-
vertisement in the papers saying ]
Il 60 -. n
little girls.
Il wanted 20 give them the won
lderful education 1 had always want
ed myself They were poor, half
crippled children that were brought
TO me, but IN a year they were the
loveliest things IN Berlin.
Obscene Modern Dancing.
The Kaiser was against my hav-
ing a school there He thought II
revolutionary, but one day he saw
the children walking and asked,
Whose are those beautiful chill
drenY
What taught them was not
dancing but expression of fife.-
But the children" Of today. the
girls who make up the chorus OF the
music hall stage. they are indeed to
be pitied. even by Isadora, who has
twinlSled over the footlights for
more than 20 years
''The other night I Was taken to
see a musical comedy" she said,
~and could not keep back my tears
at the sight OF beautiful children
kicking up their heels. saying ridicu-
lous words and making obscene
movements. What is to become OF
them2
But TO have performances every
night seems to me like prostituflhr
the theatre 1 would have theatres
: where drama and music and dane.
ing should all be given without
strangling one another and wouit
3 have four performances a year.
/ People should 60 for purihcafioI
and inspiration They should hea.
such grand words that their who'll
!, lives would be uplifted-
Theatres ought to be rrea- I
!, q anything Is paid tho people shoul
y be paid 70 go--