Felix Cherniavsky - Correspondence with Dance Collection Danse 1

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Felix Cherniavsky - Correspondence with Dance Collection Danse 1

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r 7 W.22 * hamar + 2 - - 1 1 1 + - - 1 34/1958 403-4646430 HERNIAVSKY FAX PAGE Behind the Veil A 107 & production of Wilde's ' Salome ' in London triggered suspicions of treason and another sensational libel trial . LARTNER $ CAR WILDE'S LA : 7 STÅND Ymde , Conspiracy , and the Most Arcade Puo.ishing . $ 25.95 By Mindy Aloft ARLY in 1916 , when !! inoked 3 of Britain night loss World Wer !, * small right - wing Lon on jurnal . The Imperialist , provided many momonts of surreai tevt . ty . The nadız , perhaps , occurred during te testirnory of a detaise witnes , Dr. Strail Cooke . Aicer consulration with his colleagues on Herley Street , Cooke was prepared to offer a medical opinion about Allan , her theatrical producer Jacob Thomas Grein and Oscar Wilde , basd 01 ! Cooke's own dose reading of ( and optn lons about ) Bratit - Ebing's " Paycho pathia Sexualle . " Billing's interrogation hagan with the astounding quastion , Have you had any experience of pervert . od moral or xoxul acts being lighted up by reading immoral Utoratuite ' ? " Corske who was then tohting otit nuls own the Me ol perversion on his patient pounds that X biterary text like " Se lone could be expected to stimulate ape cific thoughts of specific perversions in the mind of a receptive reader . By the time Billing and Cooke were through , Groin bac boca disposed as a norr10sexu al hiding . family man ud Allan ng prestitute with penchant for sidium il bavoi enärely on the fact that timy ir tended to put on a production of " Sa lome . ' " HATĚ you any opinion where they ought to be ? ' ' the judge AAKH Croke . The answer WAS , " Locked up . " Most of the original research of the C *** , as well as the historiography con cerning links better the case and World War I , lg contained in Michu Kotle's inurvelously reached end elegant " SH Joe ' ln Veil : The Libe ! Cure of the Century " ( 1977 ) , Win . Hoare has don " , In Addition to offer many more anecdotes olvaro Wing obloquy and mint ice , is to hit the locus from general sex . ual censorship to the particular cenaor ship of homosexuality that he contende wat part of a continuing cujturri var . floare 3 & very clover wider , und he makes his new prim plausible . My Tour vatkuns bouil the book concom the rat inent of Maud Allan Hoere's presiding image of her , on tage and oft , is of a high class xxpo !, suited up for ain : a vamp so profoundly calculating As to be downright traitoroug . ( More than once Hoare specu latos thul Ala ! leht have been a Ger man agent , a non based entirely on the fact that for several yeart she had lived and enjoy theatrical succes in Berlin . ) For Hoxre , as for the jury in 1918. Allan is Uitle more than her Salone persona , a tyre in the manner of Schiele's and Klimt's " stylized depiction of orgasmi women " as well as " the avenging . At Trattiz female and vagina dentata . " which is " essential Firudian Hiteral " The recard shows her to have been a lot more . Allan's curter At dancer c01 tinued Into the 1930's , and the themes of her repertory were ranging . By all reii ble Eyewitness gecounts , she was more miine 6 dancer ; however . Anna Pavlova , who had e track record for spot the gifted perforenz , remarked on Al ian's talent as & stage artist . Haarc , though , hes other fish to try . Blurring the fire berwen Allan's portrayal of Salome And her perconal life , he retails as histor ielfact a fair amount of gossip about her jove attaira with individuali of both sexes for most of which , no evidence exists . TERMOMEPNOM CACAM WITAN Maur ! Atian costuined as Salome . . " O WILDE'S LAST STAND ' conuint no bibu . ography , an 80 ore pre . umes from the wurce 1 decr.d it was ( ime to Asick Lloyd Gen , Wo geernet to be running the wÅT L Erkleur . Thx Inpertslist'e wel of choice was gendo . It roport . od 119 : the encray held a black book Lisins 47.600 Individuals in British gnv enmerk * 176 and scelery who had been wered by Garmen egerits Into de One " and " #scitousness " code words for male homosexuality and les . and were thereforr . vulnera blo in binck mail . According to The Imp Ti , these individuals were jurn un MUDrg moonbers of the British mint iar into byt , uen , Curte pillow talk , wrigtem o stare secret Such # book was never discovered , albuen the Bntisk secret service was in Compung & Ist of British bus $$ Hyapar in trude with Germany thru tha Nedkeriends and actually sublecting the to blackmail . Nevertho , tye zoon of a bibis of tumcodis took hok in the atmosphere of ch208 , čerzor , rhed diatruist . Extremists wmp all Batch residents of Cerian suncatiy ( including the Hoise cf Windsor ) with an * Internthoul conspiracy " of Javi's and bom texuais whose purported aim was to over Brian to wa Katser . Public -XX ***** for the deportation of the loi --- for the racul purification of the Britixh . people were lonbedue canisters of muungas Into various editorial pages : In le midst of this , The Imperialisk , now calling tool The Vigilante , e soll - ap polnud watchdog of British morality on al frants , published a little boxsditen abort en vxoming theater #tormance . The star of the show , a Canadian - Am & # 4 Cat Chucer rund laud Allen , slappe the fourtual's editor , Not ! Pemberon Bong with * libel suit , thereby pracipl targ a TALOHA ! Hve - day trial wome outorgagnis conduct and Alice in Wonder land rowupaper coverage prova Ora makes brilliantly and acer clear in " Oscar Wilde's Last that the casualties of wat were inly the bjoodied bodies of a geora of young man , but also the rocions of truth Juetick und tolération " The Volante tern , complete with Maulne , raud : The Cult of the Chioris TOO #cbr of Maud Allan ' In ate permarmurces in Oscar Wilde's Song , ' coe NAS to Apply to x Miss Vaietta , of 8. Duke Sireer , Adelphi W.C. II Scotland Yard werk to reize the list of theae meribers I have no doubt they would secure che names of several of the first 47,000 . Translated , this meant that by up pearing in Wilde's drama , which had been vided for some 26 yeire av de nerate's hymn tu Sion and Comor . rah , Allan was oncourving the practice of lesbianism – and might be buipe ot lesbianlar her No harter what her actual eu loriintation ( And Hogre spéculates about it sufficiently to make one ' & hoed spin ) , Allan wa vikud mierely für Asuming the role of Subme , At the trial , she would be damned itere ly for having been torn : Bll ! ng ( who con , ducted his owti defense ) introduced avi cence that in 1848 Allan's brother , Th 60 . had ten executed for the murder of two young women wit rude bodies had been discovered in the belfry of a church : Allan's perverted tondencies molt encoded in her blood . The jury , in Agrement , cleared Billing Eighty yorry later , one can afford to te amused by it , and Houre , the blot : rapher or Stephan Ternant and Now ! Coward , is keen to the comic elemente , especially those connected with In gude . For example , a 1960's reader in the United States , for won detailed xuxl Giscussions are all too available , may smirk at the fact that much of the British public in 1918 could not have been counted on to know what a clitoris Wh . Or an orgeam during the certimo py of one witness who used this term , the crostrucinating barrister , puezla , asked Y it were " pome unnaturai Vice . " The parade of witnessem . promtrent noies that Hourt HAS reled on one book for hi account of Allan'a bile and work : " The Salome Dancer " ( 1991 ) , by Felix Cherniavsky , & relative of dusictar ! who toured with Allan carly th ber ca reer and whort bogk is based on closely nekd family pupun , including Allan's johnials and lettory . Yot Cherniuvthy himself published a buen better study of Allan in 1983 , one more feripered , more Mchly detailed and considerably more careful abcut the parallele it drew between her life and her dancing . The 1991 Dook omits sone of these key points and is more acidulous in tone about its subject , which may have led Houre to hi narrow thinking to take one point : Horre's heated ** Motions of Alan's performances as Salome r'e couched in leverish rhetoric derived from contemporary re wewe , which he quotes : " In naked MAH mlity , ker body calculating she meets the eyes of Herod , the tiyuhin other mo tion Acelerates ; the know . What she wante . " As Chemniavsky showed in 1983 . much language may be traced 10. s pro motional booxlat written by Allen's Lon don manager to sit up interest in her Palace Theater debut . Allar never spoke of hersell publicly is a toniptreks : when it cam toner er , she was earest us the point of sanciones , uld abe had to be promotad , marketed . As * pired . If Hoste wants his le tuitions about Maud Atlan to be taken veriously , he Munt reconcile tie paradoxes of her dance History , and that requires all the avallable informaatior . Ha nooded one ** t to this danna critic of the MADE447 TL Noel Pemberton fittie in 1916 .