Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Contemporries

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Felix Cherniavsky - Maud Allan's Contemporries

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The Miracle 149 porta W. After three months at the Lyceum the time came for a provincial tour to act The Miracle in the United States had enjoyed a certain réctanc . To appear in London's West End was perhaps less accept able , but Diana was known to behave surprisingly and her friends marvelled and forgave her . To appear in Manchester or Clasgow was inconceivable , however ; eccentricity carried to the point of lunacy . Tilly Losch made it clear that she would submit herself to no such indignity : Diana reached the opposite decision with as little hesi tation . She wanted the money ; she was loath to lose the glamour and the glory ; but , far more important than either of these , she was at heart a trouper . She liked the company - particularly since Tilly Losch was to abandon them ; she knew her presence would be an im element in its success ; she was loyal to her fellow - actors , to Rei dt , to Cochran . In early July she set off on the trail that was to wend from Manchester to Golders Green by way of Birmingham , Glasgow , Edinburgh , Southampton , Liverpool and Cardiff . ' Don't overwork , ' urged Hilaire Belloc . ' I was distressed when I heard from you that you were going at it again , and with travel and the foul towns at that . Courage is glorious , but the Devil is the master of the world and when he sees anyone as brave as you are he makes them overdo it . ' Belloc had earlier complained to Katharine Asquith that Diana should never have agreed to impersonate the Madonna . Katharine had passed on and perhaps exaggerated the rebuke . Hur riedly Belloc composed a sonnet sequence to appease Diana . ‘ Because I find foreknowledge in my soul Of your true sisterhood with heavenly things ... he explained " Therefore did I and therefore now complain That you're profound , and daily do renew To make your own resplendent beauty vain Through mimic beauty of what's likest you . This was my sentence . This was all my say ; Mourning such light be clouded in a play . Frances Brett Young's ' votive epigram for the Madonna's shrine ' was more approvin , but the verse was worse : ' A miracle in Manchester ! What manner Of miracle ? Max Reinhardt's ? No , Diana ! ' No number of epigrams could have made up for the absence of her friends . Duff came to Glasgow for a long weekend , but his departure