Pavlova’s Triumph

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 194, 5 November 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)

Pavlova’s Triumph

Remarkable Scenes at London Theatre

Anna Pavlova, zohose dancing is still remembered with pleasure by intelligent thatregoers, created a sensation during her reecnt London season.

Remarkable scenes are taking place every night outside the stage door of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where Mme. Anna Pavlova is appearing in a short season of ballet, says an English writer. A large crowd of enthusiastic men

and women admirers, who have watched her exquisite dancing entranced, gather outside the door to catch a closer glimpse of her as she leaves. When she steps across the pavement to her motor-car they surge round her so impetuously that it is necessary to have policemen on duty to keep the dancer from being embarrassed by their attentions. Several nights recently Mme. Pavlova has pulled flowers from the bouquet she has been carrying, and has thrown them to her admirers. Pavlova went back to the land — scattered grain to the chickens, brought in gleanings from the cornfields, and toyed with the churn and the spinning wheel—in the ballet “La Fille mal gardee.” She made the fascination exercised by this land girl over the rest of the village seem natural. Her vivaciousness never flagged. Afterwards she danced “The Swan.” She had danced it hundreds of times before, but this is a spectacle of which we never tire. Once again she made an impression of the rarest grace and pathos.