FAMILY WIPED OUT.
ISA DO RE DUNCAN'S ILL-LUCK.
By Coble—Pi iss AJtoclntioa — CopyrlfM. Australian and N.Z. Cable AsspotAti.fc. LONDON, September 15. Isadore Duncan’s death ajf- ; Nice, through a motor accident, completes the tragic wiping out of the family. A motor car containing her two children plunged into the Seine in 1913, both being drowned. -C.. - • Then her husband, the Russian poet, Essen|n,/committed suicide incß?2s.w Isadore’s most intimate cumpanionda nc-er Mademoiselle a presentiment of tragedy and begged her cot to go in a car. SS (Isadore Duncan was bornSjp San Francisco in 1880, and madc'3ter first appearance on the stage atr Daly’s Theatre. New York, on April 13, 1895. After spending some years.studying dancing in Paris and Loj§|&n, sh® made her first appearance oniSie London stage at the'* Lyceum Theatre on February 22, 190 t), as' a “Ac Midsummer Night’s Dream.’’HSie has since darced in most of the G3&tinental, American, and British SSies. It was due to her that classical dancing as an art was revived after a Lapse of years. She founded schools oESancing at Paris; Grunewald. and AthjjSfs.)
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 17756, 17 September 1927, Page 17
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