South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1921-12-26
GOAT ATE BALLET
DRESS OF DANCER
But the French Girl Was Too
Well Trained to Stop
the Performance.

summer spent with them on tae
other side.
one object Of his trip was 20 find
PavlOwa in Paris. where she would
have leisure 20 discuss with him
some OF the subtleties OF the dances
which belong % his as well as her
art re studies the French and
Spanish as well IS the Russian
dancers and saw Adenne Genee. the
celebrated HtIe Danish dancer who
created such a furore in New York
when she made her first appearance
here in 1906-07. She is now in Lon
don. working % standardize the
dance.
A wonderful performance that I
saw in France" says Mr.. kinney
was given by Pavl0wa at Bagatelle,
the little chateau on tho road 20
Neuilly which was built In 1877 by
the Comte a. Artois. or a wager with
Marie Antoinette, In Ga days. The
performance was given at night out
doors on Ehe terrace with an orches-
ira and was for the benefit Of
home IN Paris for Russian orphans
The ballet OF the opera house in
Paris rehearses on an upper floor
~ one Of the towers Every one
knows about the French ballet
was interested at the hearsals in see
ing the almost incredible quickness
with which the ballet giils would
learn an arran genent. Leo StaatZ
the ballet master. had something
in the nature Of a baton and some
times when there was not IS quick
T. he n
would touch the foot OF one Of the
girls with this Baton. There is a
logical reason for that-the mind
VIII grasp a thing some time be-
fore the idea reaches the foot. and
that little touch on the foot quickens
it's perception.
When Goats Dance.
1T was In Paris that 7 saw an In
terestine incident which illustrated
the power of beautiful dancing up-
on the mind, and the manner i'm
which the French people respond 10
10 Fokine staged there Daphne
and Chloe. which he composed for
the Russian ballet II was pas
toral Greek affair and the members
Of the ballet were in Greek costume.
There was a flock of little goats on
the stage and they We're infinitely
charming with the dancers. but one
goat started in for performance
Of his own entirely I'm keeping with
goat nature. which threatened TO
ruin everything
HE was a little black and white
spotted goat. anu stood out with
great distinctness on the stage He
became interested in the costume
az one of the dancers and began 10
nibble NJ a.. II suited his taste ex-
actly, he pulled with more and more
enthusiasm the draperies OF the girl
began TO slip and disappear as he
continued. and the audience was in
roars of laughter The girl had
been so well trained in her perform
ance. 90 hold her arms In just such
a way over her head. that &c never
occurred 20 her to drop her hand
and give him a rap. She only elared
az him while her costume was melt
ing away. Some one came out f.
nally and drove him off but I said
20 myself that the thing was ruined
that no audience. after q scream
ingly funny performance like that.
could be brought back 20 q serious
frame Of mind and appreciation. Bur
was wrong. i'm two minutes al
Laughter had died down and the audi
ence was again lost I'm The charm of
the dance
Spain's Gypsy Dancer.
I'm Spain 7 met wonderful
dancer and interesting woman. Pas
tora Imnerlo. She was q gypsy. and
unlike many of them was proud of
H. 7 had some serious talk on the
dance with her She is large
handsome woman and temperament
tai
Women in spain are always
chaperoned You would mo-. sec
even n gypsy woman. unless she
was & doWn-aud-outer going around
alone. You viii always find tw1 o.
three of the women together. But
pastoral having been ON the stage
and become accuS- o-led 70 q frcer
Hfo found 90 hard 60 be less so after
Size had married a prominent bull
Gehtcr His name was Gallo and
DE was very Jealous Gallo nailed
down the windows Of the house i'm
which they lived 20 keep Pas.ora iu
r.Nt'I ~ a...'l '.lA ~tlf. aalL .|t.ftE AEt
too long go Pee patient under re-
s.ioint. she di~3pprored OF Gallo as
husband ana eft him though she
would never allow any one else %
say ANYTHING against him.
"Pas-ora' temperament found
different means ot expression. Being
Frea- artist imitation of her
we're given NJ timeS. She went 90
see one Of these and was extremely
diFpleascd az g.. HCr action was
direct She went behind the scenes
and when the r.rl who was per-
forming came of p1S-ora was watt
ms for her Before the imiltor could
set % her dressing room she had
lost the costume fin which she had
been perforn-rs. for the real artist
had left hardly rag on her body
Pavlo1ya Is Sarcastic.
"Pavlowa IS more restrained Aft
cr she once saw a young woman who
was giving an Imitation ~ her she
remarked.
ct thlnk She was trying to be
original
IT visited Pavlowa I'm her home
70 Hamstead Heath L Is q dream
90 a place The home OF Turner. the
artist where DE painted some of
his later pictures. and next door 20
what is said go have been the home
OF Nell Gwyuuc
II saw Novlkof. who was 40 one
time IN New York with Pavlowa. IN
London. His WIFE and one child
were killed in Russia and he man
3eed 70 escape with a son. He was
with Rarsay1na az the Coliseum.
Mordkin b Sill m Ruse.l He has