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favorable anniversaries for the coming
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5
The Dance New\6rkJocietyvJeere.d At.
Lady Constance Stewart-
Richardson Arranges
to Give London the
Barefoot
Greek
Dance
Which
Made the
Fashionable
(< Friday
Evening
Club” Titter
L ady Constance stewart-
RICHARDSON, most startling
and unconventional of aristo
crats, has just startled London with
a new dani
Lady Constance ts giving the
British public a new interpretation
of “The Greek Faun,” together with
a most extensive vista of the un
draped shapely limbs for which she
is widely celebrated.
Can this be the mysterious dance
that caused New York society to
drop Lady Constance and caused
Lady Constance to condemn New
York society in terms that were
something more than sarcastic?
Whether society found Lady Con
stance too ridiculous or too shock
ing is somewhat uncertain. It is
certain that after giving one qf her
dances at “the Friday Evening
Club,” an organization of the bright
est social lights in New York, she
left abruptly.
The Club met last Winter on Fri
day evenings in the Della Robbia
room, at the Hotel Vanderbilt. Such
leaders of society as Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt, Jr., Mrs. Ogden L. Mills
.and Mrs- Leonard M. Thomas were
members.
Rumor says that one or more mem
bers tittered audibly at the sight of
Lady Constance doing a bare-footed
classical dance, whereat she said
^.Unappreciative Philistines” o r
"Pigs,” or words to that effect,
turned her back on the club and in
dignantly departed.
Those who had been present said
afterwards that they ought not to
talk about it, and then some of them
said that it was “really too ridicul
ous,” and others said that “that sort
of thing isn't suitable for a social
affair.”
So It looks as if Lady Constance
had given society a more than com
mon surprise, doesn't It?
The performance which Lady Con
stance Is now giving at the Empire
Music Hall In London is a Greek
ballad dance called “The Wilder
ness,” with words by Sturge Moore,
and music by Gustave Ferrari. Lady
Constance takes the part of the prin
cipal faun. That of the God Pan is
assumed by Chief Kagbawgan, an
Indian gentleman with a sympathy
for fauns.
The piece was evidently Inspired
by Lady Constance, for she has for
some years said that we should live
and dress as much like Greek fauns
as possible. On the programme are
some little notes on the habits of
fauns, which are interesting:
“The idea of ‘The Wilderness’ is to
revive the Greek ballad dance—using
voices as qxtra instruments in the
orchestration. One of the most inter
esting types in Greek mythology, the
fauns, man like in form, but with all
the instincts of the animal, have
hitherto had but one side of their
disposition displayed on the stage.
* f * In ‘The Wilderness’ their
many other entertaining traits will
be revealed—they will appear in turn
suspicious, fearful, playful, irrespon
sible in their gaitey, passionate and
cruel-—traits which the interpreters
have studied from the Greek anti
ques.”
Lady Constance as a faun wears
a little drapery around her waist and
a little less about her shoulders. Her
well-developed, unspoiled feet and
lower limbs are bare and so are her
equally well developed arms.
Her dances symbolize and portray
vividly the simple emotions of the
faun—joy, anger, pleasure, love.
That a member of a ducal family
should be giving such an exhibition
at a London music hall has caused
a tremendous shock in Great Britain.
The picturesque dancer is the
daughter of the late Ear! of Cro-
martle and the granddaughter of a
former Duke and Duchess of Suth
erland. This duchess was an es
pecial friend of Queen Victoria, and
this fact has made Lady Constance’s
.plunge into barefoot dancing all the
more striking.
She Inarried Sir
Edward Austin
Stewart Richard
son, member of a
very old Scottish
family. In her
girlhood sh^ per
formed remark
able feats of ri
ding, shooting,
ikating and swim
ming. The reali
zation that she
had a very fine
and unspoiled fig
ure gfaduaily
forced upon her
;he conviction
;hat she ought to
give the public
the benefit of it
and nelp future
generations to be
beautiful.
Even the broad
minded King Ed
ward was shocked
at her daring per
formances. Final
ly when she per
sisted In keeping
an engagement at
the Palace Music Hall, London, she
fell under serious royal displeasure.
Lady Constance, however, filled
that engagement and many others.
Of all the snubs, perhaps the one
most felt by her Ladyship was that
of her cousin, the Duke of Suther
land. From childhood she had been
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FiVe Interesting Photographs of Lady Constance Richardson as a
Faun in Her Latest Barefooted Public Performance.
a welcome and frequent visitor at
Dunrobin Castle. But since she
showed her bare feet and ankles the
drawbridge around the famous old
moat has not been lowered for Lady
Constance.
English society naturally admired
her for her athletic and sporting per
formances. Long ago she won a gold
medal as the champion woman
swimmer for one mile.
She rode horseback to church
when she was married. The bride
groom did likewise, and immediately
after the ceremony many of the
guests accompanied the bride and
groom on a cross
country ride.
She has never
worn corsets, and
believes in as few
clothes as pos
sible. in recent
years her cos :
tumes have be
come steadily
more caring.
Sir Edward
Stewart - Richard
son, who was a
captain in the
Highland Regi
ment called “The
Black Watch,”
was severely
wounded in the
present war in
France and died
of his wounds
after his return
home to England.
He was a con
ventional, unorigi
nal Englishman,
and he was con-
s i d e r a b 1 y dis
tressed by the un
convention a 1 11 v
and / iginality of
hl-f wife. Never
theless he stood bir her loyally,
though court and society disowned
her This absolute devotion to his
picturesque wife was appreciated by
a New Yorker who saw him cooling
her feet with a soda water syphon in
the lobby of a New York hotel, after
her exertions in the dance. She is
Greek
now trying to forget his memory tB
the faun’s dance.
He left three sons, whom their
mother is bringing up according to
her ideals of liberty and lack of
superfluous clothing.
"I make my boys take exercise
every morning for fifteen minutes in
a perfectly nud/e state,” she explains.
“In that way the air and sunshine
directly reach their vital organs.
Generally 1 send them straight from
their beds to the gardens. In the
mid winter they take their morning
exercise nude indoors, and after the
bath. Ordinarily fifteen minutes of
play in the nude is enough A
child’s instinct for play is an un
erring guide. They do not loiter at
their play. Instead, they run about
as playfully and tease each other as
persistently as puppies, until they are
tired. I never excuse my boys from
this quarter of an hour of naked play
unless they are seriously 111. I have
trained them to believe that it is as
necessary a part of the day s pro
gramme as brushing their teeth.”
These interesting little children
are never allowed to see a picture of
a mutilated or mlsformed body or
to hear a story which tells anything
about killing, such as “Jack the
Giant Killer.'*
Incidentally, Lady Constance is
said to be making $1,000 a week by
shocking the British aristocracy and
entertaining the common British
public. She needs it, for neither her
ancestors nor her husband left her
much.