ENTERTAINMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 6, 26 May 1914, Page 6

ENTERTAINMENTS.

MAUD ALLAN* AND TIIK CIIERNIAVSKYS. I JTO-XIGHT, Maud Allan, the world's most famous classical dancer, and Leo, Jan, and Mis chel Ohernkvsky, the well, known Rus si'an musicians, "will appear to-niglvt a the Theatre Royal. Maud Allan's first improssio» of life, says a reaches back to the age of one and a 'half, when she was tucked in her little cot amidst a family of dolls. Her baby heart loved and lived in her fairy tales, and even now her , mind is never happier than when carried : to a land where fairies and goblins- aim ! princes reign. At ait early age, Maud Allan was transplanted to Californian mountains, where she learned to ride : bare back. She was keen on swimming, an art which has developed her ; physically. "At thirteen years of age," says the, great dancer, "1 saw Bernhardt for the llrst time, and my ambitious little heart burned within me. 1 think the turning point of my career . i';vme ,to rim from t'h? first sight' of thai ' great woman." Child as fthe. was, the ' idea struck, her, whilst watching Sarah | Bernhardt act. that more could be ex- : pressed (by blip bmutiful movements of th< ; bi>dy; than by the lips. Then and tiler. : she determined to revive the ancient ■danfcinf; of Greece, anil in - :her own , words: ; ''Unconaeiotiely, ,however, T drew fron nature and its rhythm and abiding seii c e I of pence, and when studying my" daily Hesaons under the trees, I danced by the streams and<t)ie brooks with no thought |of step, no thought of preconceived j rhythm.-) of t.h<> to-tfnjr branehel tkil 'gave, me a. desire, to express something j-within m'e bv the grace of the motion.'' I The lxix plan is rapidly filling at €"•!- | lie-s, where a large demand for seats .has taken place, and a bumper house is assured to welcome these talcnte-l artI ists.