Felix Cherniavsky - Doris Langley Moore

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Felix Cherniavsky - Doris Langley Moore

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Maud Allan Research Collection
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-2 - I still possess a letter from Leo inviting me to go on what would have been virtually a world tour in the same capacity . In youth I had such vitality that I would take on any thing . The first tour was in 1923. I next worked for Maud alone in France in ( I believe ) early 1925 . She lived in a lovely house in Regent's Park , and I am not far away now but had no nostalgia for the past when I first moved here , and now I don't think I could find it again . When there was no work in connection with her performances I kept , as I said , her press books . what has happened to them ? I began a new one in the early 1920's and probably I still have it , but there would be little of interest to you . Her palmy days were over then , though she came into prominence again in the revival of the Miracle with Lady Diana Cooper . Maud played the Abbess . It was produced by Max Reinhardt , and after wards , his son , Wolfgang ( who died recently ) became a friend of mine . Maud's book My Life and Dancing I lent to Margot fonteyn when she was gathering material for the six films she did , The Magic of Dance . It is in my possession again . Her somewhat high falutin approach to her art is much like Isadora Duncan's a stile to which I am allergic . Unfortuna tely no film of her dancing was traced though great research was done , so she did not appear in the series . Thankyou for the photograph of the original Salome costume . I am glad to have it , and cant help smiling at the modesty of the skirt which was then considered So outrageous . As for the beaded top - Salome would now be topless however unlikely in Biblical times . when I am abroad I never have letters fowarded , which is why I have to be somewhat perfunctory in dealing with them on returning home ; but il Jan remembers me , please give him my regards , and if Mary is still living , say I remember her with affection . Perhaps we shall meet . Wishing well to your enterprise , Yours sincerely , Moon Dow keyl P.S. A novel by E. Nesbit , Salome and the Head , is a rather gruesome story - not in the least like E. Nesbit's books for children - about a murder . The interest of it for you is that it gives a description of the dancer - heroine , based on Maud Allan , giving an impression of what she was like in the height and glory of her success .

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