Tuesday, March 24, 2015

"You got to kill yourself"


     "To make a living at [an adagio act], you got to kill yourself," said the agent.
     This clip is from the December 1, 1934 New Yorker, in the "Talk of the Town" column. The writer explains the miserable fate of "adagio" acts by that time. Our girl Natacha came to our shores (late '26) with an adagio act and continued with that kind of act at least up through 1935.
     Two weeks earlier than the above article, the Tuttle/Daks brouhaha had been reported elsewhere—not in the New Yorker, it seems. At any rate, I can't find anything in their archive about it.
     Here's a fragment of a piece in the June 24, 1933 New Yorker, part of someone's opinery re the show at the Riviera:


     You'll recall that Nattova danced (with Myrio) at Harry Richman's place, but that was in the late 20s, I think.
     It is unlikely, I think, that the female adagio dancer mentioned here (in the "Tables for Two" column) was Nattaova. 
     Nattova, too, was dropped once or twice.

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