The evening world. Newspaper, February 20, 1904, Page 7

a “There Is Soul in the Toe the Same as in the Heart,”’ ‘ae Pretty Premiere Discourses on the Subtle Sentiment of the Dance—Actrésses and Singers May Grow Old, but with a Dancer “Age Is Evening"—In Other Words, If Is “Good Evening "—Wedded fo Her Art, Mademoiselle Will Never Marry—To Dance Is to Be Ever Happy, but to Love—Ah! What's the Answer? O say that Mademolselle danced into the room would be stating the case correctly. R To add that Mademoiselle danced into conversation—that her tongue danced, her eyes danced, her smile danced—would also ‘be keeping strictly on the side of truth. The faint rustling of a skirt, the fall of a quick step, the sudden open- He of a door,-a-Cheery “Bonjour!”—and behold Enrica Varasi, first dancer @t the Opera-House ! . Only this was Swanilda sans swansdown. Not the pink-and-white, Muffy, fly-away fairy of the ballet, but, in mere matter of clothes, quite the Bonventional creature of white-waisted-and-black-skirted home life. . No gauze (and this was a bitter disappointment!) save a bow of some Hight blue stuff about the neck, above which beamed a pretty, animated face with eyes which danced like twin sunbeams, ‘There was a pair of combs in the tastefully dressed dark hair when Madameoiselle entered, but one fell almost at the threshold, an amber Jolcen to the irrepressible buoyancy of its owner. She had fairly rushed to the slaughter, and now settled—it must have been, like a cloud!—in a chair drawn bravely to the window. Daylight's glare had no terror for la belle ballerina, a a a Fr) a a oo AVE you ever wondered how long it would take you to learn to dance on your toes? Well, don't. The chances are you wouldn't be able to spare the time, and, anyhow, if you are much more than seven, there's hardly yeny use be- ginning. It was at the elastic age of eight, Miss Varasi said, that she entered the Beala Academy in Milan, and it was four years—four years of hard practice before, she could percb upon her toes. But this was not all. A sigh an- ewered for the ten years of patient study, Then—with a happy breath—Potersburg, Moscow, Odessa, Paris and, nally, America! How did she happen to come here? Oh, that was funny, in proof of which those trim, trained feet kicked wut from beneath the*imprisoning skirt. Mir. Conried was in Vienna. There he saw a picture of Varas!. game to Milan, but shook his shaggy mane when he saw the original. “Mr. Conrifl—Mr. Conried who 1s so thick—he say to me, ‘You are too thin for America. It is s0 cold there you could not keep warm.’ [I Drama and Comic Opera ENTEN diverstons at the theatres alncelinis | next week will include two new happy: introduction to New York in pieces, Edith ng Dodo. Js ‘time he will play a ia sient PPY-wo-lucky American stationed in Twelfth Night, Domingo during a revolution in He appearance on Broadway musical Matthison in Wynne as it ‘Was played in Shakespeare's day, and republic, Though painfully short many Interesting changes in tho attrac-| Of funds. the Consul’ is known as “Bi” Booze, and there is every reason to tions of houses mone or less remote from Broadway. Monday being Washington's Birthday, matinees will be given in all the theatres, so that despite the period kcloth and ashes the week will the liveliest start of any this season. Trumpets will announce the revival of the Blizabethan drama at the Knicker-| bocker ‘Theatre on’ Monday afternoon, | ‘when Edith Wynne Matthison, with the! other members of Charles Frohman's English company first made known here in “Everyman,” will produce “Tworith| Night,” with all the simplicity of espeare’s time, ‘The Cull text will be and but for a brief intermission middie of the play the action conUnuous for two hours and | ae fe The curtain will be i Tied Be as the audience enters fe abeatre, he stage will be expect that Mr. Hitchcock will make a brave attempt to live up to the name, There will be two soubrettes. handsome black-eyed Flora Zabele and Rose Botti, @ newcomer. ‘Others in the case are Eva Davenport. Sally McNeel, William Danforth, Harry Fairleight. 7) ©, Haz- zard and Hubert Wilke. * 8 “Phe Tenderfoot.”" which, tt 1s claimed, set the musical comedy pace in Chicago with 192 performances, will walk into the New York Theatre. Richard Carle 1s not only the star but the author of the plece, which, uniquely enough, has ‘Texas for its stamping ground. Ranch- men, cowboys, Indians and soldiers will ¥ie with one another for the love of a pretty helroas, {yds At is promised, the “atmosphere" will’ contal dust, “The music is by H. teenth, the composer of ‘Miss Simplicity” and nters| ‘The Show Girl.” In the eo y ar set to] mamund Stanley. Henry Norman. Hee ida resen of ie n ald. Globe heater lene ey Jena Frederick, fratearye Sayro his one ‘set will be acted all the scenes rand-new lot of Western choru: ris, play, The orchestra will be SEL Os! He teated upon ‘the stage, dressed in the| Ada Rehan and Otis Siinner will eostumes of the Queen Anne period, and /return to town, playin ill render muste incidental {9 the’ per- bY Deaying ©. week's. en- formance. ‘“Beef-eaters" will ata-|Sasement at the Warlem Opera House, tioned in the foyer, and attorwned ‘The Taming of the Shrow’ will be Presented Monday afternoon and Mon- her side of the stage. Among to, be sung are Mistress | gay and Tuvaday evenings: “rhe Behoot for Scandal". on. Wednesday Lid @nd “Come Away, Death.’* Ben Thursday nights, tna for the alana Including a the’ bill, will be a td Hearts. ie panelled interioi e! Greet wilt play Malvollo. ee Henry - W. gavage “The Yankee Consul, production of eek €e, & comic epera by chant of Venice. Henry M. Blossom, Jr., and Alfred G, The Vaudevilte Theatre will reopen Robyn, which will be seen at the Broad-) Monday go a A) with Arnold Daly, Contin? way, has Raymond Hitchcock ‘as its $P¢, °F ater, This| will be An Hltohoonk’s Oat. Vi ee re ae Salty Mc Neel: B OADWAY THEATRE laugh and say to him, ‘Pouf!’ I havs danced almost on the tip of the North Pole. I will not freezee in América, “So I came as first dancer, biit"— and here a tragic Mght came into the eyes—“I almost was second dancer, but once in ‘Carmen’ before ‘Coppelia,’ one hour and a half each day. thing doing.’ And'I appear? Maybe. Froelich. No, I say, and shake my head, 60,” | Nt The one remaining comb trembled at the end. of,a loosened look. “But Mr. Conried, he say, ‘Very well.’ I promenadé much, and I practise = — wre er THE » EVENING # WORLD'S » HOME w# MAGAZINE = Jays E FA Frederick: New y yorn « THEATRE [. suscrrermeres oe mr ang <1 «Gj , \ J <a> ‘mir. Conried, He Say P-p-r-r-tt!” like a child. T came in October, but I appear ‘Then, at last, there is what you say, ‘some- Ce ws Ce The ‘Coppelia’ ballet is announcéd. I am’ first dancer—yes? 20D health. Mr. Conreid, he say I must draw lots with Bianca G Strength. Natural grace. Patience and will powe So he have an Itallan girl rep-| resent me and a German girl represent Miss Froelich, and my girl she cessful dancer. A’Dipple: Metropolitan. Mademolselle enumerated those as indispensable qualities of the suc- Hi Hi ll ‘ail ut wl il COPYRIGHT a-DUPORT ‘ draw the long piece of paper and [ am first dancer after all. This was funny, eh? A lottery in the opera!” Having won Varasi could afford to throw back her herd and laugh i) oe rd = oe I Al It only all of us cow! ii iy 4 a Then, again, one must not be too short. Still, Herr Conried is superior to this rule, to do It.” He is an all-round athlete. % “Mr. Conried, he say ‘P-p-r-r-t-+t!’" ai. Varasi described a circle with her toe, then shot it out, In illustration of Herr Conried as ballet master. “And the dancer, she must not be too big.” This prompted a question about the large lady of the ballet who at each He showed the ballet “how @ GATURDAY EVENING. ’ { FEBRUARY 20, 1904. Enrica Varasi, First caus of i Rs 4 ‘ : | 1 performance of “Coppelia” has melted operagoers into smiles. Was shey brought over merely to appear In the ballet? f “Oh, yes," answered Varasi, “he came pn the same ship.” ‘a Great, indeed, are those ocean liners! re s o o “ Fe a): ENTIMPNT in dancing? S. Certainment. “Ah, yes,” sighed the fair exponent of-the art, “there is sou! in the toe, the same as in the heart.” Mademoiselle grew serious on the tender subject. “Dainty sentiment, that is it,” she sald. “One must charm in another way than the actress or the singer. The feet must tell the story fm place of the tongue. A dancer should be able to express the same feeling as an actress or a singer, but the great difficulty is she can never count on more than one-fourth of her audience understanding the subtle meanings of her art. A great actress or singer may grow old and ugly yet etill be able to charm her audience. With a dancer it {s different. The three-fourths who do not understand want a pretty face and figure, and above all youth. With age comes evening.” However, as Varasi is but twenty-four she wept no bitter tears at the thought. ws rd Bad Cd Cad Cad Pad ADEMOISELLE had a good word to say of the American chorus gyi. Ample leisure has afforded her opportunity of witnessing most of the musical shows on Broadway. “The Amorican chorus girl she is graceful and chic,” was her estimate. “But I could hot dance like that. Ballet dancing makes you strong and healthy, but I should think the American style of dancing, high kicking and acrobatic, would be bad for the health. My heart Ay ayer hurt = See sometimes my big toe it scold very much. Always in the morning 1 prac- tice one hour and a half—every morning, yes. This keeps my muscles firm and makes me siim but strong. The poupee dance I Practice much. One must be very careful or else it {s the couchee-couchee.”” Judging by Mademoiselle’s mirth at this reflection the couchee-couchee is the danse drole par excellence. s Cd Cad ae Pd IKE so many artiste, Varasi is “wedded to her art.” L strictest confidence—there is never to be a divorce. “No,” she said, with a flicker of eyelashes, ‘I shall never marry. If I married an Italian man I would have to retire from the stage. Thy ltallan man he !s so jealous he would not let me show my legs in public ‘Ab, yes, that is too true! And then what is love? ority I stood mite. Rreraccnoe paee after an impressive pause. “It may make w happy or it may make us unhappy. But the dance—ah! that is different always happy!” sere ak ld pirouette and spin on our toes, what a happy CHARLES DARNTON, Cd s And—this ir world this might ve! 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