, 1923-02-04
FREEDOM HERE?
|SADORA SAYS;
H! RUSSIA!
Dancer Leaves Desolated
U. S. Vowing Ven.
geance on America.
BY II. f. CAYLOR,
United Press Sniff CORRESPONDENT,

NSuittu IEtSS Ctdll NOii tspDIiuCnlsJ
NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-Isadora Dun.
can, who came TO America 10 dance
with her soul, but got the raspberry"
because her soul and body didn't wear
enough clothes while doing It. sailed
for Russia today after an interview
Of hate for everything American. in
Gliding moonshine liquor.
Serge Essinine, her Russian hus-
band, stood by her side a~pprovingly
as, waving ends OF a bright rcd scarf
about her neck. Isadora declared she
was a Revolutionary" poured verbal
vitrol upon newspapermen and scorn-
fully laughed at American freedom"
Freedom in America" Miss Dun.
can exclaimed. echoing the interrupt.
ed question of a reporter.
u would rather live in Pussla on
tiack bread and vodka than In the
United States At the best hotels. We
have freedom in Russia.
Every morning hero when I got
Up. or went % Led. the people wanted
to know what ] ate, what I drank
and where I sept. Why. I got up the
other morning to find in the newspa
pers a story that my beloved Serge
had given me n black eye IN a Bronx
fiat. It's n darn lie. 1 don: know
whore tho Bronx is.
II don't know whether I'll come
back here or not. No prohibition in
mine. Some of the liquor I drank
here would kill an elephant. 1t might
have killed me II I'd stayed much
longer. Maybe it's a good thing
I'm going back TO Russia"
cam ET.,,.- " 5000
face of the newspapermen who saw
her off, she declared that the people
and the capitaIIstic newspapers. be
cause "a came here to teach them
freedom and art, ruined my prosper.
Gus tour" .
'Whcn 7 started on a tour, I in.
tended to go to California, but I only
g as far as Chicago and had TO Dor.
royv money TO get back from there"
1Sadora declared she is against:
Prohibition.
Newspapers, their photographers
n reporters.
Tire world west of Paris and Mos.
bow.
The newspapers have wrecked my
career" she said in c]onsentiny TO be
interviewed after sending 4 sarcastic
message out refusing 10 seq the re
pnrlers. When she did consent to
talk she did II with n determination
30 get even with America in gen.
Crai.
"i he people in this country do not
want art" she declared. forgetting
her Russo-Parisian brogue for the
moment. 'They don't know what
art is. I came here to tell them and
they put me on Ellis Island. This
government Of yours tries to prose-
cute those who speak with freedom,
but 1t can't stop me from thinking"
IF ! came to you Americans as a
European banker to borrow money,
l would get a great reception. But as
a recognized artist l landed on Ellis
Island. When l arrived there they
treated me and questioned me on the
island as a dangerous revolutionist.
well. yes l am a revoldtionist.
80 is my husband-all big artists
are-not bolshevists but revolution.
aries at heart because they have to
be-"
With this ultimatum she took n
last hostile look at the New York
skyline and went below decks of the
liner George Washington just before
the ship pulled out of its pier.
She will return TO Paris and Mos.
COW, she said to resume charge of her
schools OF classical dancing for child,
rem.