INCOMPARABLE PAVLOVA

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 163, 11 June 1926, Page 3

INCOMPARABLE PAVLOVA

TO-NIGHT AT 8 O’CLOCK. This evening at 8 o’clock the J. C. Williamson, Ltd. management will present for the' first and only time to playgoers of Palmerston North the world’s greatest and most popular dancer, Anna Pavlova, who, together with her own complete London and Paris organisation, including Laurent Novikoff, the brilliant young Russian dancer, and a full grand'operatic orchestra under the direction of Lucien Wurmser, present a-festival of ballets, dances, pas do deux and divertissements, and the booking indicates that the entertainment will bo enjoyed by tho largest and most representative audience that has ever filled our local theatre. Never previously have playgoers looked, forward with such pleasurable expectancy as they have to the advent of Pavlova. In Londoq, Paris and New York Pavlova has been acclaimed tho greatest dancer the world has ever known, and many of tho best critics go so far as to state that we will never see her like again. Australian theatregoers went crazy over Pavlova, and in Melbourne tho takings for four weeks totalled over .£30,000. Her season in Auckland resulted in every known record being broken in that city and her. overland tour has been a series of wonderful triumphs. Tho Auckland Star says: “Pavlova is superb. An artist to the very tins of twinkling toes, every fibre of her lithe body seems to respond to tho music. And her poses in the cbmaxos of tho dances were unforgetably artistic. It seemed impossible that tho human body could suggest such poelio ideas. In Saint-Saens’ ‘Swan Dance,’ Pavlova showed herself the incomparable artist she is. Her fluttering hands, her expressive body and her twinkling feet interpreted the beautiful rhythm of the .music in a way that seemed to make one the complement of the other. Again in ‘Snowflakes she was woderfullv fascinating and brilliant, whilst in ‘Rondino’ and ‘Christmas’ she aroused tho audience to the highest pitch of enthusiasm and in them her genius is presented at its best.’’ Mr .Laurent Noukoff, her dancing partner, is also a great dancer.” Miss Thursa Rogers, the young New Zealand dancer, has won a reputation in London and Paris.” There are seats still available at the Opera House, ancl tickets for other than tho reserved portions of the theatre may be procured at the doors this evening.