Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1920s

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Felix Cherniavsky - News Clippings 1920s

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inlinene i 1. CALL A FOST Wednesday December 17 , 1921 414 IN For By MAUD ALLAN ce m awren Miriam Dolany How I Startled the World Confessions of the San Francisco Dancer Who Shocked and Fasci = nated Kings , Critics and Society ; Her Romances , Trials , Triumphs ( probably about fourteen . Perhaps ABS the By MAUD ALLAN tho conch moans , the dulclmer sounds its melling melody and drum , hautboy CHAPTER III and pipe make up the orchestra of bar baric music . OW this is thc Dance of Herod has told his guests of the " Salomc . " DAN dancing of “ Salone . " He has painted , I want you to visualize as I do her art in the language of true Orien tal exaggeration , Woe to her if she every time that I dance this crea- shame his words . tion of mine the apartments in the To the blare of insolent music she Palace of Herod Antipas , Tetrarch springs into the great hall . Blind to the circle of inflamed eyes that de of Galilec and Perca , a man mighty your her pure young beauty , she sees in wrath , but casily moved to gusts only her mother uplifted on a glitter ' of sudden impulse . These gorgeous ing throne by the side of Herod , the And so che dances , apartments have been set apart for dread Tetrarch . while silence falls upon the barbarian the use of the Princess " Salomc , " guests as with twinkling feet and in , the young daughter of Herodias , genious witcheries she gives them of her art . and granddaughter of the late pro Then at last she lies panting in obeisance at the foot of the throne , curator ; she was , therefore , closcly while the inusic dies in a last sobbing rclated to Hcrod . wall . Picture the somber beautics of The great Ruler , with parched tongue and the palace . Thc dull halls pillared eyes , leans and forward makes the tremendous promise in the strcwn with rarc draperies and moment of his gratification : Tyrian purple , thc sumptuous " Ask , Salome , my Flower of the couches to which all Arabia had Forest.sk what thou wilt yea , even to the half of rny kingdom . " Awed by contributed her embroideries . Amid the strange look in the eyes of the these , beauties the Princess " Sa- King and stunned by his astounding lome " is seen . She was but a child ; offer she takes refuge in her mother's bosom . " What shall I ' ask ? " she whispers . she did not realize that all the And the wife , tormented and distem glory in which she was embowcred pered with hatred of the Baptist , whose was part of the marriage portion of clarion denunciations of her sin are her aunt , the daughter of Aretas , Jordan , answers without hesitation : now ringing out over the waters of king and lord of Arabia , whom her " Ask for the head of John the Bap uncle , the Tetrarch , had put away tist upon a charger . " that he might marry her mother , before the feet of the King and utters And so the young dancer bents again the ravishing Herodias . Try and her request : imagine the life of " Salome " lapped " I will that tho'l shalt give me the in incredible luxury of an Oriental head of John the Baptist upon a iish . " What follows is mirrored in court , at the dawn of womanhood poignant words of the historian , Mark from an Eastern point of view . the Evangelist : Toto this velvet life there must have " And the King was exceeding sorry . coin , a sudden reminder that sorrows Yet for his oath's sake and for their can intrude even into the palace . She sakes which sat with him , he would not ** & ught a hall stifled impression that reject her . the position of herself and her mother " And immediately the King sont an was being made the subject of vitriolic executioner and commanded his head gossip on the part of the Jewish popu- to be brought : and he went and be lation , and no doubt sho witnessed headed him in the prison some of those almost demoniac fits of " And brought his head in a charger fury exhibited by her mother when and gave it to the damsel , and the the news that John , chaste damsel gave it to her mother . " prophet of the Most High God , was Buoyed up by the excitement of the stalking through the city denouncing mother she places the gory trophy in to wife of Herod as sinful and ac- the hands of the vengoance glutted curgt ; that her mother and new step - mother . Then she flees on naked feet father were living in defiance of what back to her own apartments and this burning young prophet ( for John stands aghast as she views her blood not much than a youth ) dabbled hands - dyed purple with the called the " law of God . " His voice , blood of holy John , the Mystic , the likened by the people to silver | Voice denouncing uncleanness and trumpet rang out even in the court- shame . yards of the palace : " O accurst This was the Dance of " Salome . " wonian of sin thy white and And as she stood motionless , with tender flesh shall burn in Tophet the whole scene vivid before her im while Herod shall be cast down agination , there canc to her the Vis oven from the golden throne of Galilee ion of ' Salome . " and Perea . " As in dream she lives again How , all the dim whisperings of the through the mad moments of excite affrighted servants and the guarded nents when she danced in the Hall gossip of her bower maidens inust of Herod while his lords and captains have perplexed the pure mind of bathed her with the breath of their " Salome , " the young virgin innocent . fierco admiration . Again , too , she Then there came the night when it sees that strange expression in the was the whim of Herod to " make & eyes of her royal stepfather as he supper to his lords , high captains and hoarsely vows her hall of his king chiel estates of Galilee . " And sud- dom , ir her desires stretch so far . denly the great gong that hung over Then slowly there forms before her the much guarded apartments of “ Sa- the ' pallid , sublime face of the Bap lomo " reverberated with its clanging tist . It seems to be at her feet . Moved himnons : " Salome " inust come and by an irresistible force ahe stoops and dance before the king and his wine lifts it by the black curls . Every fiber flushed lords and captains . of her youthful body is quivering a For hers was the strange gift -- the sensation hitherto / unknown to her . gilt of dancing , brought from Egypt She reverently lays down the severed by those settlers whom she claimed head , and then in a whirl of sudden as ancestors . It had been her pride madness she commences to dance to dance , her inother's pleasure and around it . Soon exhaustion breaks tha joy of her dead father . the spell . " Salome , " princess of Gali And now she must attire herseil en lee , lies prone on the gray , cold mar her silks and stuffs , hang jewels upon ble . her supple and , leaving her To Be Continued cloistered seclusion , dance before Her Copyright , 1921 , International Feature od's friends , while the cymbais clash , Serrice , Inc. Great Britain Rights Reserved . came was more a P a 9 וודו fo

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