She paused, then added mischievously:
“Let us make an appointment. I am leaving for Paris in a day or two.... Perhaps I shall take you along with me....”
* * *
In all the dance, Pavlova was my first love. It was from her I received my strongest and most lasting impressions. She proved and realized my dreams. To the Western World, and particularly to America, she brought a new and stimulating form of art expression. She introduced standards, if not ideas, that have had an almost revolutionary effect.
Anna Pavlova had everything, both as an artist and as a human being.
[3.] Three Ladies: Not From the Maryinsky
A. A NEGLECTED AMERICAN GENIUS—AND
HER “CHILDREN”
ALTHOUGH my association with her was marked by a series of explosions and an overall atmosphere of tragi-comedy, it is a source of pride to me that I was able to number among my dance connections that neglected American genius, Isadora Duncan.
It was Anna Pavlova who spurred my enthusiasm to bring Isadora to her own country, in 1922, a fact accomplished only with considerable difficulty, as those who have read my earlier volume of memoirs will recollect.