• Found this old photo of Natacha Nattova (note the spelling): Amazon
NATACHA NATTOVA Rare! Small 3x5 photograph of the dancer is shown on stage in a butterfly pose Photograph signed: "Nattova". Sepia, 3x5.
Russian ballerina Natacha Nattova appeared in the West in a variety of venues in the late 1920s. She starred in the show "Playtime" at London's Piccadilly Hotel, in New York in the "Greenwich Village Follies," and in the MGM Hollywood Revue (1929). She was the model for Serge Yourievitch's bronze statue "La Danseuse."
The Mail (Adelaide) Jun 20 1925 |
• "Navatto and Myrio" appeared from June to Sept., 1925, in London:
Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Cleopatra', adapted from the book by Brammer and Gruenwald; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast; typescript inside front cover gives cast list, cast changes and dates; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical Performed at Daly's Theatre, London, 2 Jun 1925, closing performance, 5 Sep 1925; presented by George Edwardes; produced by Oscar Asche; scenery by Alfred Terraine and Joseph and Phil Harker; music by Oscar Straus; lyrics by Harry Graham; additional numbers by Arthur Wood The Opera House, Manchester, 11 May 1925 Casts: Alec Fraser, Frank Cochrane, Shayle Gardner, Henry Hallatt, Stanley Rendall, Alan Dale, Jay Laurier, Neta Underwood, Ninon Zaria, Laurie Newton, Alma Lee, Peggie Lovat, Marjorie Blareau, Evelyn Laye, Jeanne Planas, John Coyle, Carl Brisson, Tilly Brisson, Nattova and Myrio, Illene Evelyn, Ireland Cutter
The Vaudeville News, Jul 17, 1925
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First Preview: | Total Previews: | ||
Opening Date: | Dec 24, 1925 | ||
Closing Date: | May 1926 | Total Performances: | 180 |
Category: Musical, Revue, Original, Broadway
Description: A revue in two acts
Music by: Harold Levey, Owen Murphy; Lyrics by: Owen Murphy, Harold Levey |
Jean Myrio? |
• Natacha Nattova - Goldberg - Physical Culture, April 1927:
• Motion Picture News, July, 1927:
Philadelphia… The Fox had an exceptionally heavy week with "Frisco Sally Levy." [N]atacha [N]attova, assisted by G. Rodion, headed the surrounding bill, which was further augmented by Jack Osterman, in a snappy monologue, S. L. Rothafel's "Silhouettes,'"'and Lillian Bernard and Flo Henri, feminine harmonizers....
• The Bridgeport Telegram
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Tuesday, September 6, 1927
Natacha Nattova heads the new bill at tire Palace. This clever star, late the hit of the Greenwich Village Follies, is assisted by G. Rodion, the Tosha Samarow Gypsy orchestra, and Joe Price.
…Harry Burns followed and scored with his balloon bit, set more extravagantly now and almost a new act, but still the balloon bit. Natacha Nattova, who knocked them dead here and elsewhere with her sensational adagio work in the "G.V. Follies," closes the first part. Miss Nattova's act is elaborately staged. She does little to hint of her former sensational work until the finale, but does It then and does it well. She wowed with a breath-taking twirl finish. Joe Price, speedy knee-dropper, and included in the company, likely to be heard from.
Bert Lytell Co Natacha Nattova
NATACHA NATTOVA and CO.
STRONG-NOT DANCER; NATTOVA WINS CASE
Judge Holds Harry Glick Not Entitled to Unperformed Services Professional qualification and satisfaction are important factors in a theatrical contract concluded Judge Lauer In the $900 damage suit by Harry Glick against Nattacha Nattova, danseuse. While Glick held a written contract, the clause that he prove up to Miss Natovas terpsichorean standards made or unmade the argument. The danseuse state* Glick was a good, strong man, but not up to snuff on lifts and adagios for which she engaged him. Glick. who Is a physical culture exponent, stated he was engaged at $160 a week and guaranteed six weeks as a strong Miss Nattova. alleged Glick \. is strong he did her bodily harm in proving weak on the dance partnership' when with the "Greenwich Village Follies." Glick argued he was let out when the revue man- agement concluded that Miss Nattova's partner, G. Rodion, was all [that was] necessary, and that she did not need two team-mates. Following argument by Sidney Kalfus of Ken, Her & Goldstein, representing Miss Nattova, Judge Lauer gave her the decision.
Desha Deltiel, famous model (wife of "Jean Myrio") |
Myrio and Desha, the 1930s |
She originally pursued painting? Hmmm. And who are Joe Price and Tosha Samarow [Gypsy]? |
• Here's another photo I found:
Russian dancer Natacha Nattova poses for the camera in 1929.
• The Sun and the Erie County Independent
Location: Hamburg, New York Issue Date: Thursday, June 20, 1929 Page: Page 3
• Who was Nicholas Daks? (One of Natacha's partners, c. 1927) [Here husband, 1928!]
Daks, Nicholas - 1899-1978.
First Name: Nicholas
Last Name: Daks
Age at Time of Census: 43
Gender: Male
Race: White
Ethnicity: American
Est. Birth Year: 1897
Birth Location: Russia
January 17, 1899 - September 01, 1978 Plant City, Florida
New York Times
At Radio City: It Happened One Night
February 23, 1934
…A conception of Oscar Wilde's "The Birthday of the Infanta" is the principal stage attraction. The participants in this offering include Eda Vitolo, Gluck-Sandor, Nicholas Daks, Jan Peerce, M. Vodnoy and Stan Kavanaugh. Isabelle Herbert recites the story. The scenes include "The Processional," "The Palace Courtyard," "The Garden of the Palace" and "The Hall of the Palace." The ballet corps, the choral ensemble, the Roxyettes and the Music Hall male dancers also take part in this subject. Interviewed on the radio, 1965, in New York re Radio City Music Hall, etc.
New York Sun, Jun 30, 1943
• New York Sun, Jan. 2, 1931.
At the Roxy:
A "dance spectacle" named "RHYTHM," with two familiar names: V[al] Gueral and Nicholas Daks, both one-time partners of Natacha Natova. An April 6, 1929 Billboard piece praises Natova's show, one with the assistance of Daks, Gueral, and G. Bogdan. They seem to be describing at least part of the performance that was (later?) presented in the 1929 "Hollywood Review" film.
• And who is "G. Bogdan"? Why, it's Bogdan Ganjou of the "Ganjou Bros":
The Winnipeg Tribune
Winnipeg, Canada
Saturday, March 1, 1930
Next Week The Most Spectacular Dancing Famous Exotic International with NICHOLAS DAKS BOGDAN GANJOU Corking Comedy In Cork
• Name: Valagimer Gueral
Age: 41 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1899
Gender: Male Race: White Birthplace: Russia
Marital Status: Married Relation to Head of House: Inmate Home in 1940: North Elba, Essex, New York
Map of Home in 1940: Lake Flower Avenue House Number: Wa
Inferred Residence in 1935: New York, Manhattan, New York Residence in 1935: New York, Manhattan, New York Resident on farm in 1935:
No Citizenship: Naturalized Sheet Number: 4B
Institution: National Vaudaville Home 5-80 Attended School or College: No Highest Grade Completed: High School, 4th year Weeks Worked in 1939: 25
Name: Vladimir A Gueral
Age: 42 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1898
Gender: Male Race: White Birthplace: Russia
Marital Status: Married Relation to Head of House: Son-in-law Home in 1940: New York, New York, New York Map of Home in 1940: View Map Street: Fort Washington Avenue Inferred Residence in 1935: New York, New York, New York Residence in 1935: Same Place Citizenship: Naturalized Sheet Number: 11A
Occupation: Dancer Attended School or College: No Highest Grade Completed: Elementary school, 7th grade Class of Worker: Wage or salary worker in private work Weeks Worked in 1939: 12
The Capital Times - Madison, Wisconsin Monday, February 10, 1930
The International Star of Dance NATACHA NATTOVA In A Resplendent Preasentation NICHOLAS DAKS BOGDAN & GEO. GANJOU
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn, New York
Sunday, October 7, 1928
Honor to Present NATACHA NATTOVA Sensational Parisian Danseuse in Her Latest Triumph "The Moth and the Flame" Assisted By Ceral WISIIE UIHS ERLANGER Z"BAz?'
The Jewish Transcript (Seattle)
January 25, 1929:
VARIETY FILM … REVIEWS
Tuesday, October…6, 1931
...Which may or may not [signify?] that the Greeks had a word for everything and they usually combined all ideas for entertainment. The current Roxy bill is the staid idea of classicism with a novelty turn wherein the Parthenon frieze of jug carrying goddesses rises and descends on an elevator; as an interlude Natacha Nattova does some wrestling with a flower urn. That's a fine scene and Interesting. Miss Nattova shows great grace in movement. . She is followed by Paul Haakon … spear dance….
"Hollywood Filmograph (Jan-Dec 1932)"
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LOEW'S STATE [March 16]
For class in staging, costuming, novelty, scenically and all around enter- tainment, this Leonidoff production, "Impressions," a Fanchon and Marco idea, leaves little to be desired. In addition to all this there is Natcha Nattova, who has a presentation all by herself. Miss Nattova has a distinct novelty and a worthy feature offering for any stage. In her present routine Miss Nattova executes her effective and artistic dance movements on a huge vase filled with rose buds, the petals and stems serving to support her in difficult dance postures. The ensemble numbers started with the girls in a toe routine with Corinne in front and faded out in a pretty picture of cups and saucers. A military stair number with Joe Rose leading in some Russian stepping, and for the finale a beautiful rainbow effect. In the entertainment section Paul Sydell and his dog Spotty sommersaulting to difficult stands won good appreciation.
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WARNING [April 2, 1932?]
To whom it may concern: The flower number, latest outstanding novelty of NATACHA NATTOVA in which she introduces a new type of dancing on a specially constructed apparatus consisting of a huge flower pot of various kinds of flowers, is her own exclusive invention and fully protected and patent applied for at Washington, D. C. Miss Nattova is using this apparatus in presenting her daring specialty, entitled Anybody infringing of same in whole or part will be subject to immediate prosecution. Booked Solid Fanchon and Marco
Motion Picture News
Oct-Dec 1929
ADAGIO - NATACHA NATTOVA. Music arrangement by Arthur Lange.
Vaudeville News, 4 May 1929
RADIO-KEITH-ORPHEUM ( EASTERN ) FORT WAYNE , IND . New Emboyd ( First Half ) Natacha Natova & Co .
Yes, our girl appears in this |
http://www.palaceofvariety.co.uk/page4.htm
A superb adagio act which ran from 1933 to 1957. It derived from Natasha Natova and Company of c1929 and led to the Dior Dancers (1958-1963) and the Bal Caron Trio (1964-c1966) -
1929: Hollywood Review of 1929 (billed as Natasha Natova and Company comprising Natasha plus Bob and George Ganjou and William Hendricks from Copenhagen, Denmark – who may have been Natasha’s husband).
1933: came to England and Serge Ganjou came into the act. Did Royal Variety Performance with Juanita Richards
1934: Juanita Richards left and was replaced by Joy Marlowe (who married Serge Ganjou in 1956)
• Who was Harry Glick? American Radio Digest, 1933:
A jovial radio personality. Once danced with Natacha Nattova. Fails to mention that he once sued her and lost. He was a great wrestler, too, I guess. I think he skated with Rosina Blackburn, too |
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1223368/handkerchief-unknown/
The Polish brothers Bob and George Ganjou started the original act in the United States, performing with another male dancer, and the female dancer Natacha Natova. When she went solo, her place was taken in 1931 by Juanita Richards, born in Detroit. She was the Juanita who performed at the Royal Variety Show in 1933 but when she left the act she was replaced by the second 'Juanita', Joy Marlow (1912-1980), another dancer who stayed with the act throughout the 1940s and 1950s when they went to Hollywood and regularly appeared on television. They did their last tour in 1956 and in 1958 Joy Marlow married Serge Ganjou who joined his brothers in the act in the 1930s.
Old Harry squeezed his brief association with Nattova for all that it was worth and then some. |
An article about American dancer George Church:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Apr 2, 1965
[Marriage record:]
Upshot: Church started his career with "an adagio" act with Natacha Nattova. It all started when his mom discovered his was involved in prize fighting. She put a stop to that, so...
Nathalie S Kapoustiansky
Spouse Surname: [Jan] Hoyer
Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1927
Registration district: St Martin
Inferred County: London
[Sacharachevit Ch-kapoustiansky Or Branitzka]
The Independent (London)
January 22, 1999, Friday
Obituary: Serge Ganjou
... The third male member of the original team was William Hendricks from Copenhagen, Denmark. He had emigrated to New York at the age of 13, and had won an international Charleston dance championship. Becoming a solo singer and dancer in several South American cabarets, Hendricks had much experience in several different adagio teams before joining the Ganjous...
Variety VOL. XCIX. No. 4
NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1930
Closing is Natacha Nattova, featured In the unit with three male assistants. Miss Nattova was among the first. If not the first, to present quartet adagio, and has dressed it novelly as an interpretation of the machine age. This num.ber is from John Murray Anderson's "Almanac," and highlights an enjoyable act. Before this routine is a dance of death, also presented cleverly in adagio.
September 5, 1927 The Bridgeport Telegram from Bridgeport, Connecticut · Page 6 Natacha Nattova, late hit of the Greenwich Village Follies, assisted by G. Rod[i]on, with Tosha Samarow Gypsy Orchestra, and Joe Price, is the headline offering on the new vaudeville bill today.
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