Felix Cherniavsky - Undated Clippings

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Maud Allan 258b 51 2008-1-27.jpg
Maud Allan 258b 51 2008-1-27.jpg
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Felix Cherniavsky - Undated Clippings

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" All We Like SDheep ở Cont . p.3_ ) this American " grit " and " bluff " for beautiful art . There is very little art in Miss Allan's performance . She herself admits thuis when she says that she has never learned to dance . Pwrhpas this is one of the secrets of her success , in England . The English people dearly love a lord . The English lord ( and ythe class he represents ) dearly loves an amateur . Christopher St. John in " The Academy " May 2 1908 On May 13 , The Free Lance commented " One wonders with great wonder how cleveer must have been the letter Mr. Alfred Butt of the Palacxe theatre can have written in answer to an attack by a Christopher St. John on Miss Maud Allan . The facts are these : First tjhere came an article extolling Miss Allan as a great artrist ; then came , it is supposed , an application for seats , which apparently were never sent ; and then the article attacking Miss Allan hip and thigh as a person of no originality , without art and a mere amateur , whom the Palace Theatre had foisted the press and public , and sneered at her own little article on the Daily Mail and inviting a controversy . The sequel I have anticipatef , and the climb down is about the lamest piece of bluff . on