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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1915)
The Omaha Sunday Bee Magazine Page etind the nkleoiLf da War faPa mm of ncex n The Talented Baroness Rothen thal s Unusual Method of Teaching the Blessings of Peace The Baroness's Conception of Tear- " Ml Ss.. mi 1 K' L--.tHi-1rT-,r-.v- ij. i r, - ' - , (W . . i' . v .... y ,v. ... , , , ; " -ai-i.-iKiW.-' n ;' . '; t. , . .' ' ' . - S- . --.,'. . ..v,x j0 ' , ' K ' , .. - - . .f ;, c . vk (v "... A i .. " .. - . (j . , I..,, ..mil . 4 v ..i.!,.i- .' V ' . . . - : ' i rr ft v i.,-., i, ..ip-- ' V V -f t .v.. iiii" -: ... i .. z:f "4 :i:r.f. ,( H Here the Baroness Shows by the Prostrate, Stricken Figure Not Only the Body of the Vanquished, but the Exhaustion and Barren Gain of the Victor in War. ATOUNO woman who may be de scribed with truth as the daugh ter of six Datlons has come to America as an envoy of peace. But not In the usual manner of the lecturer or the pamphleteer. . The Baroness von Rothenthal is a missionary of peace, teaching the beauties of peace by show ing the horrors of war in the dance. The Baroness is not a "professional." She believes she has a mission. A genuine cosmopolite is the Baroness. Born in Hungary she was reared in Vienna. Her education was a process to which Germany, France and Italy con tributed. She visited the United States and married an American. And yet she will tell you that she is, first, a woman, and that her sympathies are with no one of the six warring, suffer ing combatants, but with all of them. That her aim and hope and prayer are peace. "This is a time when every person who Is not war maddened, should contribute something to bring about peace. Money if he has it Tim? If he can spare it from the hard battle for bread. Talent but everyone has talent I am giving mine, because I hope that by Impressing upon the mind of those who see my dances how horrible war is, I will in duce everyone who sees to use all bis influence to end it" One lesson in the horror and destrno tlveness of hate Baroness Rothenthal gives In the first passage of her dance. To crashing, rumbling chords of music she appears as a gaunt, ragged stooping figure with unkempt, dusky hair fram ing a face stamped with malevolence. Issuing from a dark background of cur tains she looks as though she were some creature that had crept from the black ness of a cave, seeking to destroy what- ever crossed its path. It Is a grim, memorable, Impresrlve picture. "The Aspiration That Leads to War." The Worship of the Bubble. ' t-x--!;s- '.i.fjTT' 'ft . ;a Copyright. 1913, b- the Star Company. With remarkable transition of mood the Baroness's emotional power Is dis played In the next phase of her dance. The crouching figure rises, becomes alert. The brooding spirit changes to one of wild exultation. "War's Frensy" she has named this picture In motion. She seeks to embody in her expression and attitude the wlldness that possesses the soul of a commander, who believes In his cause, before entering battle, or while watching the ebb and flow of the tide of blood and hate. "Visions of the Con queror" it might be as fittingly called. Ironic Indeed is her conception of vic tory. Not at all that orgy of drink and tender conquest and booty of gold that visits the brain of the conqueror. Prone on a rock lies the figure of a girl in the rigidity of death. Her hair unbound floats, a dark banner, against the Jagged side of the rock. Her face is distorted with awful memories. Her extended arms seem to be pleading even in death. To this picture has the Baroness given the name "Victory." The world has always had Its dream ers. Some of them have done great deeds for humanity. They have been the world's builders. They have built com munities or empires. Others have dream ed, and have died amid their shattered dreams, in a madhouse. It Is such dreamers as these last which the Bar oness Rothenthal depicts In her frenzied study of the reveallog crystal globe, In the posture which she calls "Aspiration." To drive for the moment these hate crowded visions out of the mind and hold before it the beautiful ideal of peace, the Baroness appears next in the rejoicing mood of a Ceres. Standing on the rocks she looks down in thanksgiving upon the valley below and smiles at what she sees. She holds an olive branch above her head and the other hand is exttended in the gesture of benediction. This signifies what all the world wants, whether It knows It or not, peace. Her dances have been given only in the homes of fashionable society in America, of which she is a member. 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