“FED ON CANNED ART.”

Waikato Times, Volume 97, Issue 15274, 26 June 1923, Page 2

“FED ON CANNED ART.”

“STUPID AND IGNORANT.” ISADORA DUNCAN ON AMERICA. “Stupid, penurious, ignorant, intolerant America disgusts me—nauseates me—and I am going back to Russia, tlie most enlightened nation of the world to-day.” Isodora Duncan, the interpretative dancer, has stopped her American tour and left the country of her birth for the country of her adoption. But she had certain things to say about America before she left. “You feed your children on canned peas and canned art, arid wonder why they are not beautiful,” she declared to America at large. “You will not let them grow up in freedom. You persecute your real artists. You put them under the heels of fat policemen like the ones who sat on the platform of my concert in Indianapolis. You drug their souls with matrimony. You import what art you have, which isn’t much. And when anyone tells you the truth you say, “They are crazy I’” Miss Duncan’s tour in. America was a stormy one. The audience laughed her off the stage in Brooklyn, the mayor of Boston stopped her dancing, and told her to put on some clothes, and large prosaic policemen insisted on sitting on the jjtago when she was dancing in Indianapolis. But now she has left for Russia, where there is peace-—of a kind.