The evening world. Newspaper, February 4, 1921, Page 29

| parietages | es FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1921 Now for the“All-American . Russian Ballet FOKINE SAYS OUR GIRLS— Have Greater Grace and More Soul Than Russian Ballerinas, Are More Pliable and Have Greater Freedom of Motion. ; —CITES STRIKING EXAMPLES. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. Copyright, 1921, by the Prowse Publishing Co, (The New York Evening Worja) MBRICANIZATION has hit the Ballet Russe! Nothing less than an all-American Russian ballet-—paradoxical as that sounds—has been promised us by the great master of this form @f artistic expression, Fokine himself, Fokine came here last year especial- THE TYPE OF AMERICAN GIRLS THAT ARE BEING DEVEL- OPED INTO RUSSIAN DANCERS. MM FORINE ay to create the ballets for those great mectacies, “Aphrodite” and “Mecca.” He remains to found a school of American dancers of the Ballet Russe, a Miss Smith, Miss Brown, Miss Jones succession to Paviowa and Lopokova and to create symbolic bal- Jet dances which will express the make a more perfect both physically and spiritually, than the combination of the best points combination, of the Latin and American One of the finest products of the melting pot, in ghort, may be an artis- tic_ ballet. Then Fokine spoke, with frank ad- miration, of the special qualifications of several of his American girl American spirit “All that the American students of the ballet require are the technique @nd development in the art,” de- elares Fokine. “They have by nature grace, freedom of motion, elasticity, piiability—things which it takes yea: to develop in the European student Then he explained that many Ru: man-born dancers super-ac bats, but they are not artists.” They concentrate on technique, he said, fram the time they are seven or eight years old, and—to use a New York colloquialism which is too idiomatic for the great (ballet-master, but which expresses his meaning—they ofte are long on technique but short woul. “Of course, if there is no soul there can be no expression,” he added, «imply. “And you believe that more soul tan be discovered or developed in an @il-American ballet Russe’ I asked. “In America,” he answered, “girls and boys are not sent to ballet schools when they aro almost babies, They do not take up dancing unless they have a great urge toward it. In nine eases out of ten if a person has a great desire for same particular work he or so possesses the equip- ment for it. “Almost alt of the young enthusias- girls who have come to me here ‘welll equipped for ballet work. The mingling of national characteristics which result from @o much inter- marriage in this country makes for highly sensitized and diversified per- senalities, whieh is the prime neces- pity of all great artists. In addition, most of these girls come from par- ents who have married for love, and sometimes I have met girls who have French mothers and English fathers, or a mixture of Spanish and Amert- can, Russian and German, Italian and Scandinavian, and even Egyptian and Nwiss, They combine the best points of wharacter and temperament of both of tneir parents, who are #0 entirely different, 'to nothing of ‘the beat physical characteristics. What could she GOING DOWN! by the Press Publishing Oo, York Evening World). KAR RBADER: (Contiden- tial) I wonder why it {s employers are so put out when a young man has to stop work and meet a girl or answer her on the telephone! If a male employee gets a phone from a man, all is serene, but let that call come from a girl and it is different. 1 wonder why! Yours truly, ALFALFA SMITH, upyrtght Q (The 1921 pupils. “Of the American girls now study- ing with me," he said, “on whom I plant great hopes for my ballet, but whom, for obvious reasons, I do not wish to name, the one pictured above, whom I call “Miss A," should, after one more year of diligent study any fu- to-day. The body the feet are beauti- . the lines of the hips and stic and beautiful and practice, be the equal ot mous dancer is almost perfe fully sh limbs p) “A close-up of the head shows lovely eyes, expressive, though not perfect features, giving indications of a beautiful soul and a sensitivenes: which will lend itsel? to the interpre tation of emotion of whatever character A's hands are de! cate, flexible can be taught ¢ speak as distinctly as any tongue. In reddish . nd length and a skin snow She has a great gift for di ig and is already dancing very well. She has, as you say, ‘the makings’ of a gifted artist, and very much disappointed tions do not come true. Miss an American of Hebrew parentag Miss B and Miss ¢ two ot American pupils of mine, are youn girls who are just starting dancing lessons, and both are very promising. Miss B shows pre talent and her body is very piiable and lovely, Miss is still very youthful, but she possesses won ful grace and understanding, marvellous finesse and and is very emotional. ‘She is the daughter of Russian French parents and is the n ofa noted Russian prima donne, well known here and abroad, whose re cent marriage, as the culmination of a romance growing out of the war, attracted wide attention She was born in the United States and com- bines the romance and tradition of the Slav, the fire and enthusiasm of the Latin and the freedom, grace and breadth of comprehension and vision of the American woman, which { not to be found to such a high d gree in any of the European wome “Among my other ‘pupils T hay charming girl of sixteen, born in t United States of Egyptian-Swiss parents, a girl who ty clever, lithe and langurous, with limpld brown and marvellous arms and hands. To create the American dance for the American woman—that will be a isk which requires study of the American woman at her best, so that when my ballet company is formed there will be included dances which are as distinctively expressive of the American spirit as are the Russian and Oriental dances characteristic of the respective spirits of those coun- tries. ‘The American girl will make a Wonderful ballerina. | You shall see ‘or yourself when TI have Amer- ican @allet Russe,” ad _Can You Beat It!_ Onprrigtt, 1021, by The Pree Pitiictring Oo (Tie New York Brening World’ Boo ANOTHER FINE DID You GET IT ic! WHERE c YES |ANA |] THISISA LOVELY COLL EDITION ! WHERE ECTOR. DIO You Gerr D THIS IS A RARE Book ! WHERE DID By Maurice Ketten | NO, How WOULD | GET A LIBRARY IF | DID DS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1921 Restore the Rights of the Gallery Gods! PLEA FOR RETURN OF 25-CENT SEATS — Theatre Tops, Now Empty, May Be Filled Again if the Youngsters and Art Hungry Students ; Are Given the Chance. By Marguerite Dean. Copyright, 1921, by the Preas Publishing FF" call for the gallery gods! Co, (The New ‘York Evening World) ‘Those youngsters who sold papers and ran errands for the cot ner grocery im order to scrape up the price of a 25-cent theatre ticket » those art-hungry students with th earners with romantic hearts and worshipful eyes, all the critical, en- thusiastic, intelligent, vociferous pa- trons of the galleries in the good old days before the high cost of theatre- going drove them to the movies and vaudeville, are wanted by the foot- light folk, by the villains they used to hiss, by the heroines to whom they used to throw kisses, Through Rrank Gillmore, Executive Secretary, tho Actors’ Equity Association haa sent an emergency call to the theatre owners in the United Managers’ Pro- tective Association urging the | re- turn of the 25-cont seat and its oc- cupant, the gallery god. “We want him te come back,” charming, courteous Mr, Gillmore assured mo earnestly, in the offices of the Actors’ Equity at No, 115 West 47th Street. “We want him not only for our sakes, not only for his sake, but for the future of the the- atre, For what will that future hold if large numbers of our youth grow up without the habit of going to see the spoken drama? If there are no boys and girls in the gallery seats of to-day, the orchestra seats of to- morrow may be empty. “There are no 25-cent seats in first- class New York theatres,” he contin- ued. “There are no 25-cent seats for first-clasg attractions in ANY city or town in America. And we cannot but think it @ pity, for many of us re- member that it was in the gallery seats that our great love for the the~ atre was born and nourished, I my- self, when I was a boy, stood for six hours in a queue to get a 26-cent seat for a play or an actor I just had to see.” “Shouldn't the theatre be the most democratic of the arte?” I suggested. “To understand and appreciate a good play, one need not be specially educated, as most of us must be to comprehend great music and great painting, One need not even be able to define all the long words in the dictionary. It is enough if one has a sense of color, a perception of emo- tion, a natural imagination.” “Indeed, yes," he answered, “and that ig Why we actors hate to see the drama evolving into the diversion of special classes. ‘There ought not to LUC Copyright, 1921, by the Pre 66 ba) of as the Fri at the lune “You cheap jewe “No, the it mean Elon’ Publishing one you ever run acrost those jewelry faker sked lacile the Waitress endiy Patron took h counter. the fellow: Ir he asked guys who claim they found a seat who sell and then try to get you to buy it, The stuff always turns out to be fake and you tose ‘or the kitchen. “When they sprin BRU RnAsays Ha EASA ine MbaD, , that old jewelry gag on you, don't One of was in here a whi jet ‘em talk at all.” th self respect ie "7 eens Ser oeey Pe EHS Laicile made her trip to the kitchen. We find mbtch of it in this gre ae re ee ener oF his e h etu ed ahe wore a ser- r perov col t € « ham sandwich he shows mea ring, 0" rae rea #) ROSE Hae pene 4 zi) Bow er : “q just picked th 5 : more deplorable must be the con sot nie up on the wwhat's wrong?” asked the Friend eer i fi “That's enough for me to get hig |¥ Patron ; hy aiimechar number. 1 don’t even give the ring a Why, I just noticed my ring’s i a i nd perhaps good look. “Yes, [ know,’ f gays, lots Missing,” ahe replied, “Gosh! ‘That both father aad mother, in eee aetnte’ come’ ta hers’ to hunt fen uy musta been érying to return my devastated and wiiere -it ley ng to me,” r na eae U just found this ring,’ he Huh!" she conaluded or tl breed ber whee} YS said I talked too much & aid for these children should ry f000 i Aye. hen you'r me while I go out and k vac! withheld After n eniidren ure ¥ r) Wy BY Roy lL, ~— PS CaRDELA 208s, FBisine O% velf—vou ehduld be ashamed of yours tld Mr darn. “Cail up tan . Word) welt to talk that way!” remarked tel! tim home, and then be “eé JHAT'S th rwith y Mrs, J. adignuntly., "I trust there come « and pay me t 1 and anyway, asked is no one in this house has rive it to you.” Mr. Jarr, with a puzzhd manners to throw custard pit Had she not necded, or ut least people's faces. gides, do you know wanted, the money, Mrs, Jurr would ‘ , what it costs to make pies n't have phoned, t wis r nothing the matter with these days—oven if one uses very And what do you a me, if you please,” replied Mrs. Jarr tew ess? The ide h, Rangle, seemed relieved that. it coldly “Never mind the price of ¢ s Mr. Jarr calling him. He to “Yeu there {s, you've been sniffy ples, clthor as food or as m« er to tell Mr. Jarr le was awfully ever since 1 came home ; ¥ ‘sites and aids to comedy effects when but he found it inpossible Manitey YT feteated atte, Jace: dashed againat the human counte- be vver this evening and attend wo anifty, aloof, Up-sta remarked Mr. Jarr, “But the matter Mr. Jurr knew about and distant!” repli ee, Go’ what's the matter, as I asked be- And then was snifty, indeed ees pie ery ne more or los@ Tore, that Edward, the lone onphan First to Mr. Range, who hung up cast, why does no one speak to poor POY: appears to be as popular as the phone at the ¢irst’ sniff, and then, Wdward, the lqno orphan boy influenza—everybody sniffing at him the of the evening, to Mr. Jarr Mrs. Jarr gave the lone orphan boy '? this house 2 — a steady look. “Did you speak to me ‘1 do not notice any one sniffing * ® when you came in?” ehe inquired, ®t you,” Mrs. Jarr remarked ms 5 AY MRep you came int” ehe inquired. 8 fou" Me ee renee mae | VO Excuse Now wet is out In the kitchen getting dinner.” ace : vs syem by the way, where are they?” “$ow aro all the. world to me For Being Single waked Mr. Ja! you are sniffy,” Mr, Jarr expls cur ae Che ce, “They are at a movie purty, seeing ‘Well, if you must know, you wer $ I ‘ educational pictures,” Mrs, Jarr re- OUt last night and the night ipefore, ¢ xed to pay bonuses plied. “Although U will say that when ° Just ‘before you cume vw bables, The General cur Willie heard they were educa- ™an, Rangte telephoned asking fo Council of the Seine has de tional pictures be did not want to go. He likes these dreadful serlul pic- tures or comedies where people fall downstairs and throw ples in each other's faces.” “Well, € don't blame rather ha him. ra ve custard pies thrown in my face when I come home than to be met with bled Mr. gloomy looks,” grum- Jarr. “You whould be ashamed of your- LE THE WAITRESS DUDES Publishing Rockefeller Co, (The New York Brening World.) Chytibk, THAN Ae ten FH one ring ahead, I don't want to buy Sew York Prenine Worl it FEW days ago Mr. ‘Who was trying to sell it to A gave $1,000,000 to the suffering you? he snaps. “I tell him to eat his sandwich be- re it gets any harder, children of Europe and then I Hoover campaign, beat it. He just drops the fake ring As President f the Board nto his vest pocket and sinks 4 tooth Wetrare o: < 7 nt Dae Welfare of this city I know you." “Did he?” asked Mr. Jarr eagerty. He borrowed $10 from me last night wend told me he'd and give evening, for sure,” “Why should you lend him money?" Mrs. Jarr inquired. money this morning and you guid you bad none,” “But will have it, don't you geo’ come That's the fakers,” said Luaile as she picked up some debris preparatory over way to handle thoxe to starting struggles of the children, in cn what cided that mothers giving birth to a third child shall receive call me vp and 850 franes, 400 franca for the ft to me this 3 fourth chikd and 450 for all children beyond the fourth, This system will apply to ille- asked you fo you for § citimute as well as to legitimate POPLAR LALA LOLI, . s the I am glad of this. 1 a terrible calamity it is when the bread winner is taken away and the ensuing mothers and children REDUCE MISERY 2 MIN Co, children the world over. ‘Pho sorrows and suffering are the same the world over. We must reach out to them, I wish the rich men of the country would come quickly to the rescue of litt ones and settle t tion of starvation “over there.” But big thing that must be done everywhere if the world is to be bet- tered and strengthened ia to reduce misery to @ minimum is ques- the example wondentul there in this srosperous ¢ of ours ould not be a single pauper child. Pavperism among children lias been minated in Denmark, No child u Denmark getually suffers tor the want of the necess es ¢ fe The re we the Dunes bee 4 sina] country, they can ete e difficult questions becay wey can readily realize the rewulte undertaking. The en—the future citizens perity of the people Gun only be ac- miplished by preventive measures. They do not wait for public cha the ¢ munity 1" look ahead i stop the possibility of community nd poverty and pauperism and lifts uw seit 50 that it ytands alone strength the backbone of the eak, the wan and the weary by sure d ut the tine when it is most needed For example, Denmark was one of first countries to get behind the rehild wh father died. It nark know that @ woman could not her family and finance it as “ vl uit wlways tad been ut such families drifted into public tions anyhow, so De 40, numonly nes, called “widows’ for D eral years of study these allowances they many a mother, in order to wot the bit of aid in the widews' pension, struggled along and kept herself 48 poor as possible so that It would not be withheld from her Denmark then took another step in the direction of eliminating destitue tion and distress, She said to the mother: You need not keep yourself so poor, What we want la the best citiwen tat you cam produce. So we — this was not enough nark, After + n granting und tha SopHIE By IRENE LOEB say ‘ou this—If you should, by your rgies or by the energies of your children, be able to save a thou- sand dol rs, or if any one should leave you such a sum, and each of your children should somehow, througn thrift and effort, have five hundred Jollars to their credit, we wili stili give you the allowance of the Gov- ernment that you may count on ft un- til your children get to work and take care of themselves after the age of lt or 16. Wise Denmark! The children of the widows of Denmark are to-day mak- ing the dest citizens. Why? Because the mother, lizing that the Govern- ment is standing right by her chil- dren by the contUnued little allowance will work urd to save, and the chil air aid. to il net withhold help, so she is now able to give her iren perhaps a little more school r education and bet- ronment, and thus mouid especting eitiae ith is they ar ‘ would jon of pauperisin family is the ckbone of the nation. When a Child are Board logks into the case every poor tumily kindly, judiciouals and devold of char purely from the civic point of view, that family stiffens its own backbone and re- habilitates itself. Thirty-nine und Alaska, now have a so-called Widows’ Pension Law. It is only « tep from this caring for the child of the widow to caring for every poverty stricken home, It can be done by the nunit n rich men,’ inst money to eliminate children, could turn over their dona Ue toward better lifo—the elimination of dis © and Ue many great human problems, Pauperiam among children must of necewity be 4 public matter, ‘The reason is that you cannot eliminate pauperiam among children by charity which, at best, 1s only spasmodic and a& the donor desires It must be continuous and sure until every ohild can stand on its own feet and ‘make ita own way. This country most of all has ‘been travel Ung in a circle—the tamily clrcio. It has paid enormous sums for the elim ination of misery. lt must begin with mg ne in its own home, qu children States, al Hawa) ad of giving Si dain Sa wi in pocketbooks, those girl wages be anything snotbish about the the~ atre. it speaks to all, and almost all @re glad to listen if they have the chance. a3 Mr. Gillmote paused 4 moment £ had found him, eating hie luneh trom @ tray on bis desk. “Tam talking very badly,” he apolo~ gized, “and I’ probably don’t sound serious, sitting nere and waving a piece of cake, But £ honestly believe in the theatre, and I believe that it hag @ most valuable educational in. fluence on thowe who love it. When the youngsters who can afford only the 25-cent seats go to plays they hear English correctly spoken, they see courtesy and gentle breeding, they have glimpses of rooms correc: ly decorated Or women beautifully clothed, of a life of culture and refine- tment. ‘Besides the exultation or the amusement of the tragedy or comedy, these boys and girls are learning in the pleasantest way possible a lesson in living.” ‘ “And are they aot an inspiration to you actors?” I suggested. *T? gallery never pissyfovts, It knows what it wants, and it isn’t afraid to way so." “We all enjoyed. playing to those in the 25-cont seats,” he acknowl? edged. “There was nothing blase, novuing oversaphisticated about them, Between them and the aetons there existed & wapm pensonal relationship which, I am ‘sonry to say, is not so often, fo be found im the theatre to- ve u ‘We realize; of course, that the gentlemen who own and fun; our theatres are business men and. must be governed by business rules. Yet, now that the prices have been put up on the guilery seats, what hap- pens? They remain empty, even when the plays are highly suoces: ful. Surely it would be financial gain to fill the seats ut 25 cents apiece, to say nothing of the fact that he who intnimum to-day may be to afford the maximum toe morrow. he psychology of the American ygoer is such that he always buys the best seat he can afford. He doewn't try to save money when he is out for an evening’s entertain ment. Bringing back the 25-cent #eat would not. mean emptying the more expensive beats of their pas trons, but would mean reaching a w audience, persons who simply nnot afford to pay more than & quarter apiece and who are now ree sirieted to vaudeville and motion pice 4 and deprived of all acquaint~ with the spoken drama.” ACK SPRAT was not too fat, J His wife was not too lean, : Because for lots of good Bond Bread, ‘They both were very keen,