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A 4 4 4 a 4 1 2 4 3 pt otos a y W Y j A CV l L THE THIB TEIl TERPSICHOREAN TRANSLATION OF THE y ai t i i TRAGEDY AND BREVITY OF OP THE TUE bb GAY Y t. t Y THAT ML MADE r IDE b PARIS b r GOOD FOR A NIGHT Copyright 1311 bj I 1 Great Britain Righta r. r Reserved Cd I a I a r 44 3 Y a a A H Soon Soon she learns learn i r ria C S 'S 1 y rf 7 3 3 that money mU mUS mU'S moves mo yea t a tho world 1 she he fondles fon fen r a n. pur purse full rull of or golden olden coins coifs a and Imagines how she will spend them t APPETITE The mercenary Im Impulse Im- Im t Under der the influence n- n pulse pull Is Is' Is born with within ence of or wine tho thoin 2 4 a tr w ey c in her primitive I e a appetites stiles awaken In her Spirituality ers She da ces' ces in mad J Joy y and de de- light o of life lIo r I vF t w 1 yr AF r p 3 i tie pf r 1 A 45 9 v iJ Y l K J y x y t Fa jai Y r wT rNa a a p r K V s st 4 r HN S M t y rr f g tai ne JL 4 k t t 1 J rt r tf J r r Lt f T Y c at the threshold threshold of li lif i. i r Innocent In in- in v K n recent ot of its and t Jeers largely and wonderingly wondering into the c future Pandora like rt lIke she is opening St Fry t vl r aa the box of at N tho apparently apparently endless series o of sensational IN dances that have been Imported by theatre managers managers managers man man- agers In the last two or three years yeaTS after winning winning win win- ning their way with European au audiences the latest st offering promises to be truly unique unique-a unique a. a dance that drives homo home a moral lesson An erring womans woman's dance portraying her career from the dawn of ot girlish Innocent beauty through the old familiar stages to inevitable despair and death eath This Is tho the dance b by Louis LA Gal which is said to have ma made e 1 Paris Marls good In a pla play most el elaborately staged staged the the New York and other large cities clUes in is this country country country coun coun- try have lu recently seen convincingly portrayed the career of r a 1 woman oman of ot this sort except that this heroine heroine he he- roine Is finally re redeemed by love I It is 5 said ld that the tho dance by Louis La Gal at the Theatre sent ga gay Parisian audiences away w with th tears in their eyes ces because of oC the tho terrible vividness vividness vivid vivid- ness with which It depicted the temptations which may assail any woman because It showed that for the woman to yield meant no end but that of ot a despairing death The Tho effect was as perhaps all the keener because the the dance danco was d The Gay Life LIto- Women omen wept In the gay little theatre as the curtain curtaIn curtain cur cur- taIn tain fell upon the last posture of ot the danco They had looked upon lifo life of ot woman the tho soul life lite lived out out In twenty five minutes minutes' on tho the stage stave They rhey watched her fr from m the birth of womanhood In her until death and md they sobbed In sympathy at that death The liveliest lI parties that came fashionably i late lato were sobered b by the sight sigh t. t I The dance has five phases each AAch ch marked by sharp rp startling changes hanges In the character of ot the music At i first the audience sees an empty stage its sl side e and back draped with heagy folds of ot dark blue velvet The music Is gay a light rippling with a a. little note of ot cag eager r Inquiry In it Presently the he curtains part an and there thero peeps forth a young oung girl with bright Inquiring face taco Small white hands part the curtains and sho aho steps forth a slender figure swathed in light transparent transparent trans trans- parent t drapery draper through which pink flesh h glistens s She Sho begins a danco the dance danco o of youth and joy and joy and Innocence e The music rises Into the tho spirit of ot ec ecstatic ecstatic ec- ec stat static C youth DISILLUSIONMENT DISILLUSIONMENT- T IE r She Is 13 no longer lonser Ignorant of ot J life She looks upon It with wide open oDen eyes Suddenly she BIO crouched crouch crouch- fora es-fora ed t eS-t r a shadow falls upon her It is the shadow of or death II I 7 1 t tJ I I I- I J i y b r Gr i v L' L kP t ar ta p Suddenly the figure stops In its graceful circling of ot the stage e. The girl stoops and seizes something that lies upon the tho floor She stares stores uncomprehendIngly uncomprehendIngly at It She smiles and fond fondles lea It with her fingers fin tin fingers gers and caresses it with her har eyes The Tho music strikes strikes' a sinister note cote A passage follows through which the sinister note runs ass asa motif She is the victim of ot the lure of ot gold bold Clinging tt to the gold meshed purse the tho little figure is swallowed wallowed I up In the folds of ot the velvet curtains Then Thon the music changes cs to crescendo Tho The curtains curtains cur cur- are drawn back revealing a n room In which sits lilts sitsa a man who ho h holding a a. bottle of ot wine in one ona hand a n necklace of or diamonds in the other casts glances of ot expectancy toward towar 1 the dim shadows ot of the stage Out of ot these comes a a. f figure lightly garbed She dances In laughing and casting coins about her In a shower of gold Seizing a n silken mantle mantlo man man- tle she wraps raps her body In it an and 1 dances ances in mad abandon The music and her attitude betoken be betoken betoken be- be token that she has committed herself herselt to evil A moments moment's moments moment's mo mo- ments ment's withdrawal In the folds of ot the velvet vel curtain and she emerges emerges clad In a n leopard skin symbol of ot aban abandon on to the appetites Sud Suddenly enly as QS the wild dance continues she bends her head to listen to sounds unheard by the audi audi- ence Into her eyes comes cornea a a- alook look o of terror She Is Js listening listening- to the despairing cries and taunting jeers jeor from Crom hades Sho She crouches In fear tear She turns to flee and faces a grim gray figure Death haa has stolen upon her out of ot tho shadows The girl shrinks terrified from heso a awful tul vial vial- tors and glances from right to left for a a. way of ot I escape In vain aln Each Is avenue barred by a n long lon narrow dark box a coffin cottIn open awaiting her In frenzy she sho crouches screams circles wildly about In vain At last she stops steadies herself herselt rises erect clenches her han hands s looks slowly steadily Into the face of or d death ath Then tho music that has grown slow and hesitant i iana antI ana r fearful music fearful music that light hearted said caused goose flesh on their delicate bodies bodies- changes change to a wild challenge e. The Tho girl Irl whirls roun round j and round flinging her arms in defiance She I snatches up the gay silks that lie across the tho sofa i wraps herself herselt In them dances ances up to the gray figure and lau laughs hs in his face tace Mocking death she yields I to the gaunt gra gray arms extended to her hor The little i figure wrapped in Its scarlet and arid purple silks fades tode Into the great Sra gray enveloping one ono Darkness falls falIs upon the Tho The music crashes Into its last I c chords with the obligate of or a a. womans woman's sobbing er cry I t s cry cry echoed by 11 the tense women in the tho au audience lence RELEASE SE D dAo Death Deth faces race f ca l. Mat J 1 i h t b r r. r H He e l stretches out r I his arms to ro- ro re receive her At At- W. first she sho Courage Cour Cour- If ys age gs triumph She he jk rrt aloft f t ty flings her har ar arras ma jf y and smiles of ot and death cath dances lE i 7 is In tho face ace 1 ff tty r. r v J jf w r r c i o y 1 n te r 1 a. a y sj I t 4 4 wr f k S w w ra raJ r. r d r m j ii J rat f t e yr |