A GHOST DANCE

Waipa Post, Volume 42, Issue 3314, 25 June 1931, Page 8

A GHOST DANCE

AUDIENCE'S TRIBUTE TO PAVLOVA.

s Outlined in blue lights ' a fragile jghost danced across a London stage!

mbi a recent performance. For three . minutes it danced, "while the audience, ; pit, gallery, and stalls, at the London Hippodrome rose to their feet. The ; ghost was Anna Pavlova. Hundreds of people had crowded into the London Hippodrome for a special performance by the Pavlova Company, the proceeds of which are being devoted to the erection of a memorial to the famous ballerina. Q- The house, which was* packed in . every corner, had beejgpgowing for -*'Vu encore of Spanish dance by Vincento Escudero.

Suddenly the clapping ceased. A .' hush fell on the excited members of W&& gallery.- Suddenly the faint, gen- ■ sad strains of " The It^BV'-an ''* wore heard in the air. 14 have been ghost music itself, K»fe;:'were'so faint. Then, witha sign,.; hundreds and ||pnj stood silently. danced \o the music. It sad danc<> that made Bji||fam.ous. And one blue light ■yiry, wbi..*K grew sti«ength H^^din 1 ? of the footlights. the; gloom; The ' l|tei^as ; -a-trick '■ of - the thefcer something we ■ski»d,-'-dQes not matter, ■i*: : Fheer,:-dehcate. and KU like

- ; ■*-■&- - . Suppressive ;it seemed to - be