CREATION OF SUPERMEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1938, Page 4

CREATION OF SUPERMEN

FAMOUS PIANIST'S BELIEF. Madame Levinskaya, world-famed pianist, believes that she has found the secret for the creation of a new world of supermen. George Bernard Shaw, keenest and most apt of pupils, tried her system, which she calls muscular co-ordina-tion, and has said to his tutor: “I come to you because I want to be able to drive my car when I am 105 years old.” Plump, sloe-eyed, vivacious Madame Levinskaya, who spent her youth in Tsarist Russia and was an infant prodigy on the piano, talked to a reporter of her plans to build a new world. “This has such great potentialities that I am almost afraid of it,” she said in her Kensington mansion. Eminent men have called her system a new technique of living, a combination of science and art, a great cultural achievement. “Yet,” she said, “it is simple. I teach people to think of the body as a perfect machine and to study the exact working of each muscle. Then, when they have got into the habit of perfect muscle co-ordination, they are mentally and physically born again. “In one generation I can create by this study a race of supermen and women, physically and mentally stronger by 100 per cent.” Then Mme. Levinskaya, who was described by Lord Sempill, famous airman, as “the most vibrant and inspiring personality I have ever met,” told of how she came to make her discovery. “I was a reputedly brilliant pianist, but I found myself striking wrong notes, bungling everything. I went away, forgot about my work, lived almost a hermit-like life. “I shunned theatres, denied myself the pleasures of society while I studied the reasons for my tragedy. Then I found muscle co-ordination to be the greatest tiling 1 had ever known."