Felix Cherniavsky - Depictions of Maud Allan's "Vision of Salome"

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Felix Cherniavsky - Depictions of Maud Allan's "Vision of Salome"

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The latte Salome Cent NY Times ante PFA upon the verge of the Intangira . gives us riddles none can sols You will sea from this sngst emerlack extract to what enthusiasın the young Ger man poets rose in this márieren as much as this particular dancer has all intents never been heard a wiri only fair show that her Vogue . equaled any aſ the others : That worry , too , brings us to a s ved of the matter which seems especl wlly rich for speculation and philosor hing Damely : that much of this dancing which has swung its way over too several divtized continents may for posterity at all , only in The kindred arts of aterature and pa paanot ins . Here , then , let us go back , not six ten years , but sixth We think t theme young women , who dance history a philosophy and poetry for us , are da . ing something new ? By no means wie 1847 there appeared in Leipsic & car cature of Lola Montez with this capa tion : “ Lola Montez Dances Bare rida . History . " You see how we repeat this fads and vogues not only of othens years and other centuries ! I dare sa the Greeks and Romans had their danc cers , too , whose press agents prete nder their like had never been before bulle hat for the present , we need go no future . back than Montez , the more sx Saas having danced in New York , she innom too remote a figure . Lola Montag danced her way to royal favor mitt | her El Olo , and from that time those active feet of hers did literally lead Ba varian history a dance . And there , pre cisely -- through the history written about her , and the cartoons devoted to her - she secured for herself a ro nown that greater dancers have missed . Any art depending on the gesture or the voice -- which only photograph or phonograph can literally record passes more quickly than the others . The actor , the singer and the dancer , enjoy the briefest fame . On that ad mission may be based the conclusion that many of these dancers will live longer by what they inspired in poetry and paint than by any ever 80 vast vogue they may have enjoyed whilo alive . Spanish . Dancers Always Popular . What , to - day , do you remember of Carmencita more vivid than the Sar gent picture in the Luxembourg ? About the Spanish dancers alone an entire book could be written . Carmen . cita , Otero , Estrella de los Ríos -- their name is legion If we go no further back than llving memory . One year it 13 EI Olo , El Son , another the Gitana , another the Mattchiche , or the Cra . quette . Tho names ' vary , the essential gist remains . You , perhaps , recall most enthusiastically the jeweled sinu ositles of Otero , I prefer Liano d'Eve . who left the Maxixo 80 clear of the vulgarity others gave it ; it is all a inatter of taste . Often the so - called anish Paneers were nothing of the kind ; I recall & jest accompanying a Salome ' Crage : My Torn Aug 23 Rudol 2 pasen 2 1908 P ? 2