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Mascot Moskovina

Harmony Bench, Author

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Letter June 8, 1917B page 4

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ports the boat could never go near land as the water had to much under swell in it and sand b[r]anch[e]s and rock prevented it. So they loaded cows from huge truck boats onto our boat by roapes around their stomachs or taken up by their horns The boat rolled on their watters like on a high sea because the water is terrible rought sometimes the boates could not get near at all and have to pass right on. We have now when we leave here on the 17th June another trip of 6 days to Valparaiso Chili from there we go to San Diago, Chili and there to Beunos Ayres Argentina. where we stop 2 months. The other day we gave a Benefti [Benefit] performance for Pavlova that means that people who lik[e] here especialy give "X" flowers and presents and that all the money that comes in goes all for "X" as the company is turing under "Bracale the Opera Hymnasio" and not Pavlova', Well did she get flowes I should say so she got a huge life sized Swan in white roses made on a lake of floweres, and another was a huge Dragonfly of flowers it was marvelous then there was another a urn of flowes [sketch of urn] white rosses with lilac flowes growing from the top then the [word missing] ofthe was made a◊ if it was flowes in a basket but there was no basket [page torn—sketch of flower arrangement] And then a huge harp [sketch of harp] ever[y] part of flowers and four huge bunches of flowers and a filigraee silver Basket a foot hight which took 10 months to make filled with violets that cost $300 to $400 dollars and a 5 pieces of Inca anciant gold work each worth $100 dollars a piece and a huge gold plate hafe the size of this page & very thick. engraved upon from some Peruvian corporation. and 4 huge bunches of flowers. and when the curtain was ready to go down she got flower thrown from all sides the stage was just covered with roses I will try and get you a coppy of the picture that was taken I was in the picture lucky for me. dont you thing so. Now really I must stop for my arm is giving out I have to wait till tomorrow to write a letter

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< home as I can hardly finish this Perhaps you will think it to long and tiresome as I am a bad story teller. Now I do hope get this from me. I hope Both you and your dear Mama are well and that the flower make good programs the flower I have enclosed comes from ‘X’s benifit so it especialy valuble Writ me a long letter of yourself and your dear Mama. What do you do about your dancing Write me and tell me if you know the names of the steps then I will send you some exeercises to do. Tell me if you understand this
Sté [jeté] right back,
" left "
do 10 of these and do the same from the front to back.
Chappé, ste ste , chappée changement de pied 10 times and plie each time never do stiffly and point your feet. With Love and Kisses from Mascot >
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