| Show Lives Dances and Viii Love As Stars The lie Young Joung Persian Astral Dancers Dancer's Mystically Revealed Destiny and i iH H How ow She Will f s Fulfill It in f N New Y York ork f is r The little Persian maid before she left to follow her starT star HE HE little Persian beauty Valen- Valen Valentina Valentina tina Valen-tina THE T tina left her faraway home in and carne came halfway around the globe to dance on Broadway because according to her div divination nation of old age-old eastern mysteries that was just the destiny fixed for her herD herby herby herby D by the position of certain stars that pre pre- presided pre presided JI sided over her birth In addition to the usual tourists maps New York guide books and bilingual dictionary she has procured to simplify h her r new life in in- in ina lna a strange land among people whose customs and language are areso so different from those she has hitherto known Valentina cherishes a great sheet of drawing paper filled put with all kinds of cabalistic signs and notes of all Oriental astrologer astrologer-a astrologer a Persian horoscope horoscope horo- horo horoscope scope After she had at last registered at her hotel here she hurried to send a cable to her parents in It read Arrived well waiting further instructions instructions instructions from my star Valentina In the midst of materialistic New NewYork NewYork NewYork York Valentina is a unique figure Her lIer father a guard officer was long a disciple of the mystical teachings of the East and her mother a Persian princess is a well known theosophist and in At the age when most little American girls are beginning to read and write little Valentina was already starting the study of astrology and esoteric philosophy delv- delv delving delving i delv-i ing into the mighty wisdom of the Orient by which she now orders her life The night little Valentina was born bom a hoary old Persian astrologer climbed Into his turret to scan the heavens and when hen the cry of the new born babe cam came to his ars he cast her horoscope Directly overhead shone brilliantly a tiny star in inthe inthe inthe the constellation of the Scorpion and that was Valentinas Valentina's guiding star By its Juxtaposition to other astral bodies in ascendancy or decline the Persian magi read her strange destiny He predicted Valentina would dance and love ecstatically if she but astral guidance and obeyed the rules for tor her life set down in the In- In Infinite infinite in infinite finite star pages of the sky And so Valentina has lived And so 50 now that she has come corne to New York she intends to dance As for love when the stars reveal that important message to her so soshe soshe soshe she will open her heart Before she herself was old enough to tobe tobe tobe be initiated into the teaching of astrology astrology ogy her mother always guided her little life actually changing her foods and hours of pla play and sleep according to astral instructions After her ber childhood in her native Persia Per Per- Persia Persia sia Valentina went to Moscow to study dancing and the drama still keeping up her study of philosophy and astrology Feeling that her destiny lay in rhythmical rhythmical mical expression she soon became a noted pupil at the Russian art school in Moscow The strange mystical dances she evolved were something entirely new to her ballet masters She soon had de- de developed de 4 eloped an entirely new dance This was her interpretation of the rhythm of spheres Many poets have written of this but the lit lit- littie lit little tie tic star-guided star Persian a beauty is original in in- in incorporating in incorporating w it in the J ci dances which she is now N introducing to New York 4 Many outsiders have hae ki lived for years ears in the East peering into the mystify mystify- mystifying mystifying mystifying ing knowledge of occult occult- occultism occultism occultism t ism that the Persians have practiced since time im- im immemorial im immemorial k memorial and have come corne away knowing no more about it than when they went ent Will Vill this little Per Per- Persian Persian Persian sian maid be able to reveal x w an anything thing of it in an atmosphere atmo atmo- atmosphere sphere so vastly in con con- contrast contrast sf to that in which it e f tf was cradled 1 r My lifes life's mission lies v in discovering and display display- displaying displaying i r ring ing ing new celestial rh rhythms of my body rhythms that I acquire only from my myN to N y rr r astral knowledge and my r x astral inspiration Mlle declares r j But there is f no p place I ace fory for you y your o u r classical The sound of rhythmic exx ex- ex exin J x the music and md the thep pre p r e s a s ion I o n s k plastic motion of ofin ofin in New York as asi i my my bod b bo body o d y and our audiences e mimicry m u s t r prefer the new ya melt into one ab absolute va vaudeville u de v i II e w solute chord of dances she was art which thrills told l j and inspires but Never never does not amuse I Ishall Ishall shall I dance in ina have called them thema a vaudeville lle A pose from V astro psychological she exclaimed the Dance of Y y ical dances or orand orand and drew a pic-of pic pic- pic of Polaris a star star- W p l I a s tom t o m i m i cLure c Lure turc resembling inspired lesson Mlle Mile hymns some interior of would teach New York Just as banal an a n e c i e n t tas as the tho jazz ia 7 and Greek or Chinese temple I will dance only in a solemn atmosphere like this this-an an observatory lecture hall ball tem tem- temple temple temple or perhaps something that I will build myself But Iw I w will ll give perform perform- performances performances performances ances to the New York audiences of new unknown celestial dances dances which I see in my visions and hear in the sounds that come from the higher dimen dimen- dimensions dimensions dimensions Mlle Mile immediate intention is to stage a series of astral dances and display them to the illuminated minds of the New World Tier Her idea is not to dance for money she maintains or even evento evento evento to dance for pleasure as the usual dancers do her aspiration is to dance her inspiration in the form of a serious lecture and message For that reason she is considering a series of introductory introductory introductory tory demonstrations of her art in which she will appear to New Yorkers rs as ns the Oriental story tellers appear to the travelers in the give desert desert give the per per- performance performance performance free of charge to all those who are arc able to grasp its symbolic meaning and remain indifferent to what the pub pub- public public lic wants I will dance spiritual phases of the human soul life phases of purely sub sub- subjective subjective sub subjective nature she explains I will dance agony ecstasy fear wisdom love Jove hatred briefly briefly emotions in the most ab- ab abstract ab abstract forms to a music that that a a great Chinese savant wrote for me and which has to be played by Orientals syncopated social dances of the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York stage and society are day to-day just justas justas justas as sacred and noble w will 11 be my dances She has so far arranged seven dances The first is dedicated to Polaris the north star In this she reveals much cosmic wisdom rhythmical secrets secrets that the stars in and the flaming meteors have disclosed to this little Persian This rhythm it is said has hM been ex- ex exploited exploited ex exploited by the dancing dervishes and wandering yogis ogis to hypnotize theiron their on- on onlookers onlookers on onlookers lookers and let them see all kinds of miracles Miss in this dance will use all her eastern mysticism and let her onlookers see falling blossoms from the sky but sky but ony only for a ments Her lIer second dance is the Dance of the Sun described as the the display of vital emotions and the beating of the human heart In this are arc passion fire joy and agony The third is the Moon Dance the dance of dreams and romances It dis- dis displays displays dis displays plays the human in its various dormant phases beginning with sleep and various hypnotic stages and winding up with the last calm of death The other four foer are on the same order Mlle Mile intends inte ds to begin the career of her that that is what she calls her dances on dances the roof of one of New NewYork's Yorks York's build build- buildings buildings buildings ings so EO that it will be plainly visible to Ib IfE U 1 m b by 7 l t 4 j 1 Q f oK s 1 b I A l w S St t F e i K Kir 31 I ir t tr r 1 Y 1 I f f fI I II I R w Ii wV V B tl s a aI I T I JF I n es esI 0 n I t ts s II I v L j A fascinating photograph of Valentina the Persian Persian Per- Per Persian sian star-dancer star revealing her her strange serenity in eastern mysticism andas and as- as astral astral as philosophy i if everybody who wishes to look Son on Here she hopes like the thet t muezzins chanting their culls t to the services of Allah on the tops of the mosques to summon sums sum- sum s mon the people to think of the 4 1 astral and the ps psychic chic phases of their existence and not beso be so so 50 much excited about the trifles of their daily affairs I r have come corne to this town of business and hurry said Mlle Mile not for money or applause but to awaken the people from their h hypnotized state of rush and push I am not a dancer dancer in inthe inthe inthe the ordinary sense sense-I sense I am a missionary in my rhythmic art alt I am going to dance science and art combined Iam I am here hereto hereto hereto to fulfill my mission for which my star star sent me Mlle Mile says bays ays she firmly be- be believes believes be believes that just as ber her horoscope ordered her to come corne here and dance it further directs her to disappear eventually just justas justas justas as mysteriously as she appeared She has already danced in various ballets of Russia and the ballet t When I left the ballet company and returned to my home in t she relates I did not know I was to come corne to America Suddenly I realized that I must leave my home and follow my little star in the constellation of the Scorpion My mother provided me with the required money and a ticket for a trip ar around und the world if necessary Thus I traveled over oyer to Constanti Constanti- Constantinople Constantinople Constantinople nople Venice Paris until I landed finally in New York where my star points out my journeys journey's end I 1 have been traveling like one in a heavy trance indifferent to everything except what the horoscope and and my my in- in intuition intuition in intuition tuition would suggest Leven I 1 even cannot explain yet how I came camo 1011 r In iw 1 Y Lr i iThe The hall hallof of ancient Khans in where Valentina danced as a child to this country though I rather intended going to Mexico But one day I found myself in New York and my horoscope told me me this was the very spot I should begin my missionary work of preaching II a new philosophy b by means of my rhythmic rhythmic mic expressions Bright lights may have lead many an- an another another an another other young oung dancer to leave her home and come corne suddenly to New York but York not the bright lights of the stars in the sky Bright lights fights and stars h have vc long beena part of stage jargon but in a far different way that Mils 1 has hns to understand l them Astrology is isso isso so deeply regarded by nil all Persians as to tobe tobe tobe be almost a religion Mile Mlle would even have a ahard ahard ahard hard time finding another lightly trip trip- tripping tripping ping pint mai maiden en in the great gnat city that she has now come como to who would know the Scorpion the constellation which means so much to the little Persian from n a remote electric sign Valentina danced as a achill achild achild chill child in th the beautiful hall of the ancient Khans where the great nomadic nomadic chief chief twins and the line important civil officers gather in She brought colorful Persian costumes with her ber from her her faraway home Her dances are similar to the ancient t temple mple dances and m the other distinctly Persian divertissements which have al- al always always al always ways held such a high place in the esti esti- estimation estimation mation of connoisseurs of the dance and her ber ballet after a sojourn fa in Persia brought variations of some of them to America This mysterious little daughter of the East grows so serious when she discusses her beloved belo astrology or dancing that her dark Oriental ees eyes often fill with crystalline tears And when she dances her her inspired stIr star inspired preaching her friends declare she is il veritably a hypnotizing eastern priestess Except for these lapses into eastern m mysticism sm however Mlle Mile Is just like hundreds of other dancers who have come corne to unless Broadway Broadway unless it is that she is prettier than most With her abundant long hair and charming old world reticence she seems fated to capture cap cap- capture capture ture many hearts in America What will her star stars tell her about love W Will she heed that message as liS trustingly as asslie she has her call to faraway Broadway n I i r 1 |
