LA MERI
FAMOUS DANCER. La Meri, the famous international dancer who will give a recital in Invercargill on Friday, August 14, at the Civic Theatre, has a genuine sense of humour even against herself. She delights in one story of a Hindu dance in which she makes some extraordinary snake-like movements of the arms and shoulders. She was dancing it during her recent London season at the Savoy Theatre, and at one recital a very deaf woman with an ear trumpet was sitting in the front row of the stalls. In the middle of the Hindu dance, when the Oriental music was at its softest, she turned to the young man with her and said, loudly, “Isn’t she marvellous. However does she do it?” And the young man, shouting into the ear trumpet, replied: “My dear, it’s perfectly simple; she was filleted when she was young.” It was the only time that she ever lost her poise and equanimity nn the stage, La Meri admits.
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Southland Times, Issue 22957, 1 August 1936, Page 3
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