TRAGIC DEATH OF FAMOUS DANCER

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 150, 15 September 1927, Page 11

TRAGIC DEATH OF FAMOUS DANCER

SCARF IN MOTOR WHEEL ISADORA DUNCAN KILLED By Cable. —Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 1.8 p.m. LONDON, Wednesday. The famous dancer, Isadora Duncan, came to a tragic end. At Nice she was driving in a motorcar along the Promenade des Anglais, when her long scarf caught in the wheel. She wa s dragged from her seat into the roadway, and her spinal column was broken. She was taken to hospital, and died.—A. and N.Z.Sun. A BRILLIANT CAREER Isadora Duncan was born at San Francisco in 1880, and married Serge Esenin, the poet. She made her first appearance on the stage at Daly’s Theatre, New York, on April 13, 1895, as a fairy in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” with Augustin Daly’s company. She then spent some years studying dancing in Paris and London, and appeared first in London at the Lyceum Theatre in 1900. In 1900 at New York she danced “The Rubaiyat,” founded on Omar Khayyam’s poem. She danced in most of the leading Continental, American, and British cities. Her visit to St. Petersburg in 1907 had some influence oh the revival of the famous Russian ballet under Daghieleff. In 1908 she was in London. She reappeared in Paris in 1919, and in London, at the Prince of Wales’s Theatre, in 1921. It was due to her that classical dancing as an art"was revived after a lapse of many years. She founded schools for dancing at Pa.ris„ Grunewald, and Athens.