Felix Cherniavsky - Birth and Death Information (Maud Allan)

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Felix Cherniavsky - Birth and Death Information (Maud Allan)

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august 13 , 1968 S.F. Chronicle . Millie Robbins Aug 15/19768 Aprit 1910 Mes column Aug 13 - 1968 Maud's Sensational Dance By Millie Robbins all were exponents of tho Rumors wera rife at the TOUR internationally ac type of terpsichore known time that Sutro had fi claimed dancers whose ca as " interpretive , and that nanced the talented girl's reers touched San Francis their lives ' overlapped to expensiyo education , and , ( o in varing degrees , seem some extent . moreovery supplied the Constantly to be confused . The women were Isadora wherer Ithal for her broth That's not too perplex- Duncan , Loie Fuller , Maud , er's lawyers throughout his ing , perhaps , considering Allan and Ruth St. Denis . three - year trial . When the latter died . re . If truc , was this merely a cently we received a cou . philanthiropte gesture , or , ple of letters advising tis to as tho gossips insisted , was look into Lo fact that she Sutro really Maud's fa had been the sister of a 104 ther ? Answers to tho titil . torious local murderer . Not lating questions never were true . forthcoming , or aro they Our correspondents un likely to be . doubtedly had her mixed Then they were put to up with Maud Allan , whose Mand's motller she denied brother , Theodoro Durrant , Letting assistance from the MAUD ALLAN was convicted of one of the multimillionaire , maintain city's most revolting and ing that her daughter had Salome with seven veils widely - publicized crimes . made lier own way by ped She was studying in Eu- dling a superior brand of verted prankster had a real , rope at the timo it was patented corsets . bloody head substituted for committed in 1895 and re . At first Maud had con- the usual papler - macho ong mained thero for many centratod on music and of John the Baptist deliv years after a highly suc- voice . But subsequently ered to her on a platter . cessful performer . she switched to dancing Mand understandably When cho died in a Los and made her debut in promptly swooted from Angeles rest homo a dozen Vienna in 1903 . shock . ) years ago , no reference to Tour years lator , she tho carly - day seandal was gavo a command perform- She didn't appear hero made in her obituarles . ance for Britain's King Ed . until 1910 when the per According to Miss Al- ward VII , then in 1908 in . formed at the Gatrick lan's death notices , she had troduced in London's Pal . Theater before a wildly en como to San Francisco ace Theater , her great Sa + thusiastic audience and re with her parents from To- lone number . ceived rave notices in the ronto , where she was born . This created a sensation , press . The family settled in the although , amazingly Thirty years ago she sus Mission District , her father enough , drew little cen tained such severe injuries William Allan Durrant , sure . Somehow , as one critic in a car crash that she nev working as a cobbler , her put it , she managed to por er could dance again . mother occasionally as a tray Ierodias ' daughter not domestic -- possibly in the as " a vile woman swayed We'll fill you in on broth ocean - sido resitlenco of the by illicit desires , but as a er Theodore tomorrow . city's one - time wealthy wayward girl led by the mayor , Adolph Sutro , stronger will of an unscrup Just how this couple of ulous mother . " modest means had been Once in Budapest a per able to send tlieir daughter to Europe to study and sim ultaneously put their son through medical college re mains a mystery . 1