The New York herald., 1922-10-02
U. S. REFUSES TO LET
IN ISADORA DUNCAN
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declared that he never had read in
Slavic. the only language he knows, any
translations of Whitman.
In talking of her art, which she said
no one understood. the dancer said: II
have no new ideas. but only the ideas
had when l began to dance when a
little girl: the ideas that | was bor,
with. Rodin, the sculptor. was not un-
derstood until he was so years old. My
imtators make caricatures of my
dances. They dance with the arms and
legs. but not with their souls"
After she was assured she would not
be permitted to land last night Isadora
said she hardly could describe her feel
ings over the unexpected hold up. A
native of San Francisco. she would not
have been surprised II she had been
met by a brass band. But to be barred
from landing in her own country simply
because she had married a Russian
for IL this had not happened she would
not have been detained-was pretty
hard to bear She was glad that she
had her poet 1t was a soul union and
began in her sleep. when her soul
SCARED out and met his Then they
We're married in Moscow and really did
soar" flying TO Germany in an air
plane and later going to France. which
barred them for a time. but was per-
suaded to let them in through the ef-
forts of artistic folk.
Shin Misses r.urricane.
The young Russian was entranced
by the Manhattan skyline and intimated
that he would write about it. He has
been given TO verse since his boyhood
He calls himself "the last poet OF the
wooded and valleyed Russia" He pre-
fa n .i,,er - pa ho nd p6 lon ferq -
and he does not look a bit like either.
He said he also had a vast apprecia-
tion of bandits and beggars and dogs
and cows and other domestic animals.
His press notices call him melancholy,
but he seems the most cheerful Boil
shevist that ever crossed the Atlantic.
Isadora declared that she had been
assured by the American Consul in
Paris that the passports of herself and
husband had been properly vised and
that there would be no trouble here.
and that she was astonished at the
gruff way the immigration officials in
terrogated her and told her she would
have to stay aboard the ship and be
taken to-day before a special board Of
inquiry at Ellis Island. S. Hurok,
under whose management Isadora is
booked to appear at Carnegie Hall next
Saturday with dancers from her Mos
COW school, said he would appeal her
case to Washington if she were not
released to-day. and that 1sadora would
apply. under the recently enacted law,
for restoration to citizenship lost by
marrying the poet.
The Paris sailed day late from
Havre and Plymouth and missed the
worst OF the hurricane that lambasted
the Cunarder Aquitania. Capt. Ernest
Maurras said he got the tail Of tha
great blow and, although the seas were
monstrous, they did not comb. one port
light only was smashed.
Among the Pariss multitude were
seven professors Of the medical school
of the University of Strasbourg, guests
of the Rockefeller Foundation. who Will
study the methods of American medical
schools. They are Drs. George Weiss,
Leon Blum. Camille Duverger. Paul
Bouin, Pierre Mason. Maurice Nicloux
and Lucien Pautrier. Others aboard
were Frederick Roy Martin, general
manager of the Associated Press Gen.
W. NJ. Healy. u s. A.; Theodore Self
ger. vice-president of the French Hos
ptal in New York p. Matthew. Chilean
Ambassador in Washington; Countess de
Moltke, Miss Constance Drezel, CORE
spondent of the Philadelphia Public
Led1er: Mrs. w. A. Clark. wife of for
mer Senator Clark: Mrs. Charles Green
ough, daughter of Whitney Warren, and
Mrs. II. +. Swenson. wife of the chair
man OF the board of the National City
Bank.
Assistant Secretary Of Labor Hen
ming. in general charge OF the Bureau
of immigration, said last night the de-
tontion of Isadora Duncan and husband
had not been ordered from Washing
He said he assumed New York Officials
were requiring the two to undergo the
customary examination of immigrants
and that there was nothing unusual In
the proceedings. He said WashingS On
was without a report of the affair.