Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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a C Her dancing was risqué , but his prose fails to titillate P 1895. He was hanged in 1898 , and After digesting page upon page of opportunistic , self - centred patholog The SalomeDancer the unsavory publicity haunted Allan Allan manipulations , one tends to ical liar , and a woman ruthless in her The Life and Times of Maud Allan for the rest of her life . agree with daddy . In fact , Allan's dealings with even close friends . By Felix Cheniavsky A family connection seems to character comes across as so singu- Long after her rollercoaster career McClelland & Stewart , 308 pp , have triggered Canadian author larly unsympathetic you stop caring had shuddered to a halt , she kept a $ 19.95 Felix Cherniavsky to write the book . what the opportunistic one - hit won - lesbian lover paying the rent for her The Cherniavsky Trio , comprised of der will do next . luxurious digs in London while she KATHRYN GREENAWAY Felix's father , Mischel ( cellist ) , and Allan ( born Maud Durrant ) gallivanted around Hollywood in an THE GAZETTE brothers , Jan ( pianist ) , and Leo ( vi- moved to San Francisco from attempt to get an acting career olinist ) , toured extensively with Toronto when she was 6 , and moved going . When the lover ran out of oor Maud Allan . The Cana- Allan . The working relationship ce to Berlin to study piano and voice money , Allan discarded her without dian - born freestyle dancer mented a friendship which lasted when she was 22 years old . While a backward glance . made a brief impact on the until Allan died in Los Angeles , at studying , she made ends meet by If Allan's tiresome self - glorifica dance world in the early age 76 , in 1956. Her papers were en- teaching English , designing corsets , tion doesn't deter you , Cherni 1900s for mostly the wrong reasons . trusted to the trio . and illustrating women's sex manu- avsky's endless endnotes will . Far First there was the seductive solo Cherniavsky's reconstruction of als . She began dancing when she was from brief attributions , they are Vision of Salome . Stripping down to Durrant's murder trial and conse- 30 , changed her name to distance meaty additions to the main text and the bare necessities , Allan titillated quent execution makes for the herself from her brother's crime , and must be read in tandem at the risk of Europe with a steamy dance based catchiest reading . Allan , on the other spent the majority of her 12 - year being misled . Allan lied about things the treacherous biblical hand , is a duller read , and comes dance career in London --- the one after her brother was executed temptress . She called it art . The crit- across as a flash - in - the - pan talent city that gave her the artistic recog- she falsely informed people ( proba ics described it as either a decadent who played her 15 minutes of fame nition she was convinced she de- bly for the publicity ) that her mother vaudeville routine or her main claim to the hilt with the crafty marketing served . carried his ashes with her when she to artistic fame , although she per- skills of an Edwardian Madonna . Allan insisted her concert dances travelled . Sometimes these falsifica formed many other solos . At the height of her success peo- were a spanking new art form de- tions are indicated in the main text , Then there were the murders . ple could buy post - performance spite the fact that modern dance and at other times you don't realize Allan was the sister of Theodore Allan souvenirs ( flower - pot statues ) . contemporaries Isadora Duncan , the truth until the endnote is con Durrant , a convicted killer who Cherniavsky writes that his father Loie Fuller and Ruth St. Denis were sulted . The notes slow down an al strangled and mangled two woinen once told Allan her triumphs were busy making a lasting avant - garde ready cumbersome read . in a church just down the street from " only a fluke and no clothes made , impression worldwide . - Kathryn Greenaway is The the family's San Francisco beme in her name . ” Allan comes across as a charming , Gazette's dance critic . on အ Maud Allan . circa 1900 . Montreal Garette August , 10/91