MADAME PAVLOVA.

Otago Witness, Issue 3768, 1 June 1926, Page 10

MADAME PAVLOVA.

ARRIVAL AT AUCKLAND. NEW ZEALAND GIRL IN COMPANY. (From Ouh Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, May 25. Madame Pavlova had a very enthusiastic reception on her arrival here from Sydney to-day. There was a stir in the ranks of many young girls who crowded the outside of the railing in the wharf shed when madame was seen coming down the gangway with her husband and the members of the" company. At the foot of the gangway two tiny girls met her, and each presented her with a bouquet. For the rest of their lives they will Be able to boast that they have been kissed by Pavlova- As she passed slowly through the shed out on to the wharf, where her car was waiting to take her to the Grand Hotel, the dancer was followed by a crowd that had waited for her. She was photographed at least a dozen times in one minute. In the Russian ballet there is a dainty little lass who represents New Zealand. She is Miss Thurza Rogers, formerly of Wellington, who holds the proud position of premiere danseuse with the company Miss Rogers went to London in May, 1920, and studied first with Princess Astafieva, who taught the Russian method in Chelsea. After 12 months' hard work, the dancer went to Madame Kasavinn, and was one of her eight girls at the London Coliseum. Miss Rogers then joined M&damo Pavlova in London, and went immediately to America, and she has been with her ever since-

“I just adore madame. and I love the company,” she told the reporters, while madame remarked: “Her inclusion in the bailer show? bow cosmopolitan art is, and what influence Russian art has.”

Every member of the ballet has long hair. Bob and vhingl© are forbidden, for madame declares that long hair improves the line of the head.