Felix Cherniavsky - Correspondence with Dance Collection Danse 1

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Felix Cherniavsky - Correspondence with Dance Collection Danse 1

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The Tour Director's son told me that in one of his letters his father had commented hearing from an adjoining cabin love making between Maud Allan and Alice Lonnon . It would have been inappropriate to have made explicit use of such and similar material , I am sure you would agree . On the other hand you may rest assured that none of the brothers ' gossiped ' about Maud Allan . In fact Jan , whom I am sure you know of , absolutely refused to discuss Leo's relationship with Maud Allan , even telling my son ( on the phone and ten at the time ) that if ) attempted to do so , he would put me in jail . The only comment leo made to me ( years before I started on the project and in answer to my asking about Maud's alleged bisexuality ) was that Maud had told him that Mrs. Asquith and her friends would come backstage at the Palace " to admire and fondle her bare back . " In talking of Maud , my father chose his words very carefully . All the anecdotes of the Australian junket came from the Director's letters ( 1 doubt he was a very pleasant person ) or the press of the day . The son , whom I met only once , deliberately destroyed the letters after excerpting passage for me , and died shortly after . I tell you all this in confidence and to set the record straight . Apart from the foregoing corrections , essentially irrelevant to whatever merits The Salome Dancer may have and yet of some personal meaning , I found your discussion fair and perceptive and , of course , highly informed . are Would you be interested in a copy of Did She Dance , ( if you have not already received a copy ) if you sufficiently interested to consider reviewing it in a Journal ? If , as I plan , 1 an in Vancouver in the first week of September , I will phone you ; otherwise I look forward to hearing from you at your convenience .