Show IMPERIAL DANCER i HAS TO WORK nARD HARD nARDI I I Lydia of the Russian dancI dancers I ers at the tho Orpheum who is the embodiment em of grish beauty and grace is lint hut 19 10 years rs old reI is domina dominated ted by bv an a ambition which promises eventually o ally to lead her ber to the dramatic stage tT I I entered the Imperial ballet ballet 1 she sho said this morning when I was WH 7 years rears lold old this is if an immense immense establishment which rovers covers four blocks in St. St Petersburg Peters Peters- burg lurg and is ma maintained with all the equipment of a girls girls' college c we were given gi liberal iberal education th there re but the dance is first y Yes e it is very very er erhard hard work for beside the technique we have to learn carn expression For our ballets are arc all an dramatic dramatic dramatic dra dra- matic in form we dance lance stories storie Members of the Imperial ballet are provided for durin during life If Jf we dance for twenty years we are tJ then n retired on ona ona ona a comfortable pension in fact we are government employees Everything E is done dane on the most finished finished fin tin scale For in instance we have rehearsals for every ballet pro produced and ani the orchestra is the lest best to be hadIt had I. I It It is new to this thi country but hut in Europe our dancing has liaR long bmg b been en of prime importance When I r graduated I danced at the czars czar's theatre in his I palace of Seilo His majest maie majesty y came caine on the stage and shook hands wit with uie me and the czarina czarina Id kissed Eed me and gave me a gold watch bearing her crest rest And in Paris we were highly elated The first night I danced there I dAnnunzio came ame back baek on the stage and congratulated cong me lIe He said Ah mademoiselle mademoiselle made mado- moiselle I wish I J could write a a. drama for your legs which are as eloquent as Duse s 's intellect Yes indeed i I know her ber we were at school together and she is ismy ismy ismy my tood friend We studied together It is is seven years that a girl irl has bas to work in the school before she can become become become be be- come a then she advances through three grades until she becomes a and then she is at the top It It is work the most difficult work I all the time but then everything worth while e means labor does it not t I have to go through my practice every morning If I did not my muscles would deteriorate and my mv skill decrease Yes indeed I dance dramatic ballets bal bal- lets but without a a. a company of and a proper orchestra this is impossible I am sorry Borry I cannot give iYe a performance on the Orpheum circuit circuit- but the stages are too small and the orchestras orchestras or or- arc are not quite up to the music and then our company is not Dot large largo enough Mile throughout the interview interview interview in in- spoke in Russian the queries of THE TELEGRAM man and her answers an an- being interpreted by her manager mana ger er Mr T T. who has just jurl introduced another Russian feature to this country in the form of an orchestra orchestra orchestra orches orches- tra of Balalaika which is creating a furore in hi New York |