Felix Cherniavsky - Correspondence with Dance Collection Danse 2

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Felix Cherniavsky - Correspondence with Dance Collection Danse 2

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The Globe and Mail , Thursday , May 26 , 1994 ARTS + When Maud gets mad . entertaining Canadians since 1966 ? I NOISES OFF berlive on , Toronto literary agent Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was this week , one of flagship and that Eric Malling and executive producer Peter Rehak were scrambling madly to convince CTV president John Cassaday and news vice - prez Eric Morrison to leave the show alone . " The show is definitely not being cancelled . It's still in the schedule for next year , " Morrison told us . But it is true that some contracts haven't been signed because the number of episodes to be produced in the new season has not yet been determined . This season , there were 22 original episodes of W5 , according to Rehak , and there's currently some discussion about reducing the number to as few as 19 for '94 -95 . Hey , shouldn't the network be feeling more generous to a show that averaged a million viewers per episode and has been informing and Dean Cooke remembers meeting Onassis on a trip to New York in the early 1980s . Though he was only a young editor at Doubleday's Canadian division and she an exalted one at Doubleday headquarters , " She was the only person I met there who remembered me and acknowledged my presence in the hall the next day . Cooke remembers a particular meeting to discuss a new book , a companion volume to a major art exhibit called Treasures of the Vatican . Which important person could they find to write the book's introduction ? The Doubleday editors began silently flipping through their mental rolodexes , then realized who was in their midst She Who Knows Everyone . Heads turned toward Jackie . Pausing to think only briefly , she said , " Well ... I could get the Pope . " God , that's clout . S Maud Allan reaching from beyond the grave to express her displeasure ? Allan , a Canadian dancer in ternationally famous at the dawn of the century for her version of Salo mé , had a tortured early life . Her father was sexually abusive , and her brother Theodore assaulted and murdered two women whom he stuffed in a church belfry . He was hanged in 1898 . Director - choreographer Paul Ibey is bringing Maud Allan's story back to life in his dance - theatre produc tion The Last Veil , opening tonight at the Alumnae Theatre . The pro duction has been plagued - haunted ? -- from the start : Ibey has gone through four Mauds , including one who " just flipped . " • Ibey wanted to use music from a scary , Armaggedon - is - nigh movie called The Seventh Sign ( The Last Veil has been mounted twice before ; both nights it closed , The Seventh Sign was on TV ) . He searched eve rywhere for a CD , and finally found one it was defective . He finally found others , went to tape one and got only white noise . He later went to rerecord on DAT , which is supposedly fail - proof , be cause it's run by computers . " Every time he tried to do anything , the computer crashed , and what should have taken four hours took from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. • Ibey found a doll with no legs he dubbed Mini - Maud . He then discovered Maud Allan had had a doll with a broken leg she called Mini ; it was also the name of one of the women murdered by her brother . . Props have disappeared . Ibey , who plays the dual role of Herod / Maud's father , and one of the women playing Maud , have un explained leg injuries . Does Ibey see the spectral hand of Allan behind this ? " I think it's her . She was so reticent - I'm con vinced she didn't want anybody else to tell her story either . She confided to an intimate near the end of her life that she would never forgive the world for making her a murderer's sister . ” Ibey says Allan once wrote a letter to her mother that said , ' No one knows my feelings and no one ever shall . ' » Although Allan wasn't a dabbler in the black arts herself , British oc cultist Aleister Crowley -- aka The Great Beast -- once wrote a sonnet to her , Ibey says . One thing Ibey hasn't worked up the courage for is a trip to the To ronto house where Allan lived till she was 9. It's boarded up now , but it still stands at the corner of Dundas and George . “ I'm scared to go by unless it falls on me , or I get hit by lightning as I go by . " Ibey is fortunate to have talismans to ward off any troublesome spirits : rabbit feet , Celtic crosses ( his family is Irish ) and his grandfather's ring , which contains some sort of moss that grows to this day . How does Ibey intend to keep his cast trouble - free on opening night ? " If they whistle in the dressing room , ” he says , “ I'm going to smack them . " After this production , though , Ibey believes the dancer will under stand that not everyone is an enemy . " I think she'll rest now . " 64