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HUE. GENEE OFF TBE STACE
Danish Dancer Tells of the Hard
Work She Does.
HOURS OF PRACTICE EVERY DAY
Sh Brian at the Age of H and Haa
Bern Dancing Klghtrrn Years
Needlework la Her
I Recreation.
NEW YORK, April 4. There wa.s a man
sitting In the auditorium of the New York
theater the other evening who had all the
hullmarks of having strayed In from some
nearby suburb with a View of having a
few hours to himself free from domestic
restraint. What lie wanted was wine,
women and song, and in order not to make
too great demands on the management he
had fortified himself with one-third of the
requirement beforehand. He was perfectly
satisfied with tho other two-thirds. There
were pretty girls and rollicking songs In
pretty, blonde girls and brunettes, tall and
shapely, short and shapely.
Then suddenly, from being replete with
satisfaction, he was made to feel dissatis
fied. Something different came into his
ken. A beautiful creature with laughing
face and infinite grace danced before htm.
As she danced the grossness seemed to
disappear from his face. When the stag?
will empty once more he looked around
questioiilngly at the familiar crowd of scar
let, violet, yellow hued sirens. He took
out his watch and looked at it. There was
Just time to get the next outgoing train.
Ho caught up his coat and hat and disap
peared, homeward bound.
Perhaps this account of the effect of
Genee's dancing Bounds like an exaggera
tion, but It Is not. For almost the first
tiling that Uenea says Is:
"My dancing la my religion. I (eel often
times as I feel when I am In church; as I
feel when I am on my knees. I am bet
ter for It. and sometimes 1 hope that I
make others a little better."
Story at Emerson.
She says this In answer to the story
some one in the dressing room tells of the
time when Taglioni or was It ElUlerT
danced In Huston. Puritan blue blood did
not know at first what to think of it. It
was then that Emerson Is said to have
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turned toward Margaret Fuller and re
marked: "Why, this thla la poetry, Margaret."
"Pootry?" was the answer. "No, hot
poetry; It Is ' religion."
The Sun reporter had not expected Gene
to say this. Another surprise follows.
When Oenee rises from her chair, where in
the abundance of fleecy ruffles she looks
not unlike a newly opened rose, and grasps
the reporter's hand, (hat friendly grasp Is
found to be like a grip of steel. Ethereal
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seemingly, she Is in truth a muscular young
person tense and taut.
While the reporter Is recovering from this
surprise, a voice from the far corner, thai
of the physician who haa come in to Inquire
regarding a strained sinew, asks:
'How about your semi-circular canals,
Mllo. Genee; any trouble there?"
You look at the pink kidded toes, at the
straight line from them over the high in
step, at the harmonious development of
the leg below and the knee where the skirt
touches, to see If you can note any evi
dences of these anatomical parts being
out of order and, seeing the glance, the
Inquirer kindly explains that the semi
circular " canals ate behind the ears and
that in the rapid whirling that is done In
the ensemble dancing there Is oftentimes
great trouble from the water that la in
them not responding to ths normal condi
tion of repose In the rest of the body.
"It is there," continues Mile. Oenee, of
whom the question has apparently been
asked before "that 1 understand the ides
of locality Is situated. Often dancers do
suffer from vertigo in their whirling, as
tho doctor says, but If I ever did It wis
long ago when I first commenced. I am
like a whirling dervish In my remoteness
from this -experience. '
Beginnings In Denmark.
"The -lung ago" wai In lenmatk. where
I was born, and where at the age of 1 I
commenced my career. I had for teachers
my uncle and aunt, Alexandre Genee and
Mile. Zimmurniann. as she Is known on
the stage. Both of them are celebrated
dancers and have been my only inalruira.
"I would stand In the wings and 'watch
them and I used to think that if I could
ver learn to dancu Ufa would be full of
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happiness for me. In the daytime I would
go away by myself so I would not be
scolded for my presumption and try to re
call their steps and repeat them, but I
never said a word, for I was a shy little
thing. Then at night I would beg to be al
lowed to watch and would promise not to
get In the way.'
"One night I was so far carried out of
myself that as they danced I danced with
them, unconscious of place and time and
action. All at once I came back to the
knowledge that the people around were
looking at mo and applauding and that the
uncle and aunt running off the stage had
seen the last pas scul.
"My aunt caught me In her arms and
promised me that I might begin my lessons
and that in time she was sure that I would
make a dancer. From that hour until I
started last January for America we have
never been separated. They would have
come with me had my aunt not dreaded the
ocean voyage.
lareer la London.
"Ten years ago I was asked to come to
London for a six weeks' engagement at ths
Empire. The six weeks over I remained
still under contract which has lasted that
length of time and will go on, I hope, In
definitely, for the English are very appre
ciative of good dancing.
"I heard that New .York did not care for
It as much, but my reception here has
svrprlsed me. I think perhaps you have
been unfortunate In not having enough
good dancing to form a standard. There
are not many first class dancers living now
because It li a Ufa that demands tremen
dous sacrifices.
"For dancing Is like everything else.
Its history is the history of hard work.
It means practicing, practicing, practicing
all the time. What the scales are to the
musician the dally exercise Is to the dancer)
without It one gets heavy and the muscles
become stiff and hard.
"Every day of my life I put In two hours
of hard work. When I am tn London I
have my own gymnasium fitted up. 1
have bars where I can use the side move
ments, holding on by an arm and swinging
the opposite leg, one of the best exerclaes
of all for suppleness and strength.
"You hear people talk about the French
style of dancing and the Italian and the
Viennese, but there is really no fundi
menlal difference. They are all based on
the same scientific method. We do not
originate steps. They have all been origi
nated. All we can do Is to make new com
binations. Kklrts and Leg.
"In Italy the prima ballerina wears her
skirts very short, half way to the knot-,
and I have often been asked why I did
not adopt that style, which Is liked by noma
on account of Its coquettish appearance.
The truth is that with these very short
skirts there is no arm movement, for one
cannot grasp and hold them, and without
the arm movement harmonizing with the
movement of the legs the ensemble is not
nearly so pleasing.
"I do not use a wig. but wear my own
hair loosely arranged In curia and loops
In the acml-cUsqic style. For a long time
I did wear a wig and one night it became
loosened. That happened in the middle
of the moat poetic dance movement, and
I anticipated all the horror of the moment
when it would tumulu off and the ugly
band would be disclosed.
"I raised both of my arms and held
tightly to the hair, with an appearance of
unconcern, while I completed the dance,
but the Inspiration was gone. Self-con-srlousness
had destroyed by art tern,
norarily. What had happened once, I
reatoned, might easily happen again.
From that time I preferred the mora slm-
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pie headdress. Now, If a few hairpins fall
out or a few curls tumble down It does
not make any difference.
"My shoes are without any boxing of
cork or composition. They are made with
a sole about half the usual width, and to
this the kid Is sewed firmly and very full
at the end, making a good standing foun
dation while the toes are not cramped.
Hlght and Weight.
"I am 6 feet i Inches In height and weigh
124 pounds. For that height I should
really weigh about three pounds more to
be properly proportioned. I did in Lon
don, but I find the climate here after the
low barometer there very trying.
"I do not take any exercise but walking.
This, being a perfectly normal thing, does
not have any bad effect on the lines. Bi
cycling and skating all tend to produce
curvatures. A dancer should have a per
fectly straight line from toe to knee and
a high Instep this Is a positive necessity.
"Any unnatural, artificial exercise will
tend to artificial effects. Even golf Is
harmful owing to the queer positions one
has to take In striking the ball.
"The Jiard work of dancing is done from
knee to toe, never from the hip, so that
too great stress cannot be put upon the
necessity of keeping ths leg line straight
and not exposing It to the strain of wrong
methods of exercising. There should be
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no Inward or outward curve; ankles
straight and not too large, chest and
shoulders Bllm.
"I do not think a child should begin
dancing from a professional point of view
before she Is eight, and when a women
reaches forty I should think she would
retire from the stage as dancer. Most
great dancers have retired early. From
eight to forty ought, to satisfy the most
ambitious."
One looks upon figures concerning stage
salaries and ages with suspicion as a gen
eral rule, but when Mile. Genee speaks up
promptly and says "twenty-six" you would
be inclined to think that she might, if
she desired, have suhstracted two or three
years and none would question her right.
Admits Her Age.
"Yes, I celebrated my twenty-sixth birth
day on board ship coming over," she says
simply. "Eighteen yenrs dancing, and I
have loved every minute of It, for I put all
that I have In It, my thoughts and my
soul and my strength and my experience
and my ambition.
"Often my mood affects my work not
the depressing moods, for I will not lie
dominated by thorn, but the peculiarly
exalted moods that one has sometimes
when one is especially happy. I have been
told If ever I fall In love that I will dance
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better, perhaps. I haven't been no, not
even with an American man.
"You see I live very simply. I have
always been with my people until now and
have devoted myBelf absolutely to my
profession, and love Is rather exacting,
they say, so one could not do both. I have
trampled nearly everything but hearts
under my feet."
On the night of the Interview In the
dressing room Mile. Genee was requested
to uppear at Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Jr.'s, reception given in honor of Lady
Violet Vivian, but was obliged to. decline.
"I have been approached by a great many
society women here and had many very
generous offers made to appear just for one
little dance," she explains, "but I cannot
bring myself to dance In private, where
conditions are so very different from those
I have been accustomed to.
"I do lot do any drawing room work in
London, but I did go to Chatsworth, be
cause that was a royal command, and
danced for the king and queen. I have also
danced before Emperor William, Emperor
Frans Josef, the csar and cxarlna of Russia
and the king and queen of Italy. The king
of Denmark was tn the royal box when I
made my dbut. I was then 12."
I.Ikes to lie Praised.
Mile. Genee's dancing naturally Inspires
the use cf superlatives. She admits, laugh
ingly, that " a great many nice things have
been said in regard to her work," and
that she is pleased to have people say nice
tilings.
"Honestly, I am pleas
n'Si." she repeats,
vitfn eyes dancing
wii.i ner gray B ancllnavlun eyes dancing
gleefully. "I love to have people like my
work, and 1 never get tired of the charm
ing tilings they say, as I suppose I should.
Perhaps it Is because, as I have told you,
my life is really a very simple one.
"I can prove it by telling you my favorite
recreation. It Is needlework. I am sewing
a great part of the time when I am homo,
und I always keep a bit of handwork at the
theater. It intertxts ir.e. and besides I find
that It helps me concentrate my inlnd.
"When I come off the stage and am feel
ing excited ami a little unstrung with the
tremendous strain I sit down for a few mo
ments, cool off a bit and then, before It Is
time to go on for the next dance, I pick up
my needlework and in a few moments my
mind Is as cool and serene as possible.
"I have a midday meal and at night I
take only a cup of coffs or tea, a X may
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prefer, before I go to the theater. I could
not dance after eating, but have, like most, .
theatrical people, a late supper. 1
"Ir. regard to dancing In grand opera,
I have done so during my engagements
In Germany, In Berlin and' Munich, where'
I appeared at the royal theaters, but tho
work is unsatisfactory to me, for the rea
son that the ballet dancing is merely inci
dental In grand opera; It Is not a feature,
and when you realize the hrd work I do,
that for eigtheen years I have been perfect
ing myself in the art and am even yet de
voting two hours a day to strenuous ex
ercise, It Is natural I should want to appear"
in a production where I am of morp Im
portance than I could bo In grand opera, no
matter with what great singer I might bu
associated."
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A . recent number of the ' United States
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supreme court of the empire, the last legal
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fixed the responsibility of bankers whin
advising investments to their clients.
One of tho latest decslons of this kind
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The court, In its decision against the
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