DANCER'S LIFE DRAMA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16476, 21 October 1927, Page 10

DANCER'S LIFE DRAMA

ISADORA DUNCAN'S SECRETS

Tlio cublob the other day announced the death in a motoring accident of the famous dancer, Isadora Duncan. The, Sunday Chronicle's Paris correspondent on August 14 had the following note on her:

Living in Poverty in Paris is one of the most amazing women of the age—one who has the highest artistic gifts, who has known every Hind of good and bad fortunte, and out of whoso remarkable life a moving drama might- be constructed. — Sho is Isadora Duncan, who oiv.e thrilled the world with her classical and interpretive dancing—the fair Isadora who has had more famous admirers than any other woman. ller life has been one of (lie greatest romances of modern times. Will it end in tragedy? Born in California, of Scots descent, Isadora had an uphill struggle to lame, although her talent for dancing and her extraordinary beauty soon attracted the artistic world of London, which she visited with her mother when she was 17.

Although petted by artists and society people for many years, she remained extremely pool'. She and her mother were both frequently obliged to spend the night on the tombstones of Chelsea 'jhiwehyard. Put it is characteristic of Isadora that even on these occasions she did not forget to do up her curls in paper. This was in 1900. A few years latei began her successful appearances in Eng. land, America, and on the Continent, when she was to astound the world with lier varied adventures and indiscretion:;. During her tours men -fought duels over her and offered her whatever her heart might wish. Wealthy men, including an American millionaire, artists, poets, found her rare beauty irresistible, and she caused a sensation at almost every European capital and American city.

For instance, when, after her marriage to the Russian poet, Serge- Esseiiin, she went to Moscow she became a disciple of Bolshevism—although she was soon disillusioned. Incidentally, the marriage turned out an unhappy one. Although they were man and wife, they could not converse. He spoke only Russian.

On returning to Berlin she threatened to publish some of the innumerable love letters she had received during her stage career.

The announcement came as a shock to a number of well-known people in all walks of life. Among I hose she said she was determined "o expose was «nn American millionaire whose income at the lime was 30,000,000d01.