Felix Cherniavsky - Birth and Death Information (Maud Allan)

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Felix Cherniavsky - Birth and Death Information (Maud Allan)

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1903 Sensation Dies at 73 NOV 1956 مهر STON TOINT ENSEMBLEINCONTRI Г. ~ A. Photo Maude Allan , ca. 1910 ( Courtesy Dance Collection N.Y. Public Library ) V MAUD ALLAN , 76 , DIES ; D ONCE NOTED DANCER 7 T N.Y.TIMES Special to The New York Times . LOS ANGELES , Oct. 8 - Maud Allan , whose interpretive dances and diaphanous costumes once made her the toast of critics W around the world , died yester- f day at a rest home here . Her H age was 76. Friends said she had been in ill health for two E years . The years of Miss Allan's greatest success came before World War I , when she danced before crowds in Russia , Eng land and India . Her flimsy cos tumes shocked early twentieth C century audiences , but critics described her dancing as rank ing with Pavlova and Isadora Duncan | 1 Her interpretation of the 1 " Vision of Salome " swept her tol fame in 1908. She was noted for ( her interpretations of Ruben- t stein's " Valse Caprice ” and Men- I delssohn's " Spring Song . " In ! 1917 , her dance to Strauss ' " Blue € Danube " was hailed as one of the finest of her career . Early in World War II , Miss 1 Allan drove an ambulance dur ing the German bombing awacks ? on London . She came back to the United States in 1941 and for a time worked as a drafts man at the Douglas Aircraft Company in near - by Santa Monica . OCT . 91956 Maude Allan , 73 , who caused a sensation when she made her debut in 1903 in The Vision of Salome , died in a Los Angeles rest home Oct. 7. She had been ailing for some two years . She left no living relatives . Born in Toronto , Canada , Maude Allan was educated in San Francisco , Vienna and Ber lin . She made her debut in Vienna in The Vision of Salome to Richard Strauss ' music . Her success was attributed not So much to her skill in dancing as to her flimsy costumes and the fact that she danced barefoot . The years of the greatest success were from 1903 to 1917 . During this time she danced in the United States , England , Rus sia , Austria and Germany and toured South Africa , India , Ma laya , China , Australia , New Zealand , and South America . As late as 1923 , at the age of 40 , she made a tour of Egypt , Gi braltar and Malta . From 1928 and until the war lived and taught dancing in England . Maude Allan was the author of a number of articles on var ious subjects , including dance , and book , My Life and Dancing , published in 1908 in London . years she a