Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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Tigainonty 41 AT ! 19670 Sept 14/91 11 01 Vanceren Provence Sapts / st ) Western Stan , Comerbrook Sept 1871 Cau Timmins Daily Press Smere Reform Wempeg fon septigle Sinalford Benson Sept 6/91 Brankford Sapers Book examines dancer's life Sept 1469 Peterborough saamine Sophs ? private performance bodo s bändi lukuke hanse Whitehorse stom Sopoble 1 Herald Thendeißen Times News pretation of The Vision of Salome , occasionally banned and often the subject of florid newspaper accounts . Her big break came with a for King spa what is now Czechoslovakia , paving the way for her glittering entry into the theatrical lime light of London . Although already 35 she spun her 1908 London debut in the Palace Theatre of Varieties into a 18 - month triumph , hold ing audiences in a state of rap ture . Meanwhile , she was a social star offstage , befriending the likes of Herbert Asquith , later prime minister , and his wealthy wife Margot . From there she launched her world tours , though she never again matched the London con quest . It was while touring in Jo hannesburg that she met the Cherniavsky Trio of Leo , Jan and Michael author Felix de Oc 16/91 years By ROD CURRIE ticulate Isabella Durrant , and other family records in writing THE CANADIAN PRESS The Salome Dancer : The Life If Maud Allan , described by a and Times of Maud Allan . writer in 1908 as " a delicious Born in 1873 , Maud moved embodiment of lust , " was just a with her family at age six to San flash in the pan , she was some Francisco the scene of the flash . great family tragedy when The Toronto - born dancer , Maud's adored brother Theo , a most famous for her sensa- medical student and all - Ameri tional Salome interpretations , can boy , was charged with performed for the King of En- murdering two young women in gland and toured five conti- a church . nents . She was the toast of Maud , a brilliant student of London society , a pathological piano , was accepted at age 22 liar and sister of the man into the Royal Academy of Mu charged in what was improba- sic in Berlin , where she re ' y billed as “ the crime of the mained through the three untury . " of Theo's trial , appeals and But even biographer Felix court manoeuvres before he Cherniavsky , who treasures was executed . childhood memories of " Auntie Maud , " seems uncertain Theo was convinced he was whether she was a real star or a innocent and Cherniavsky , a spectacular , short - lived fire native of Vancouver now living work . in Edmonton , is convinced Like reviewers of the time , he Theo was mad . debates whether she was a true genius creating a new art form The trauma of her brother's or was simply a dancer whose case imposed a terrible strain work was more phenomenon on Maud and she suddenly than art – maybe a remarkable changed her name , gave up pi fluke of no enduring signifi- ano and , with no training , cance . turned to dancing . Performing in the barefoot Whatever , Maud had a stun style of such rivals as Mata ning talent for self - promotion Hari later executed as a spy and was a splendid letter writer for the Germans during the and diary keeper , recording - First World War Isadora true or false her life as she Duncan and Ruth St. Denis , chose to remember it . Maud brought to her art an Cherniavsky , whose Uncle electric imagination , instinctive Leo was the great passion of dramatic flair and a shapely , Maud's life , also has drawn scantily clad figure . from the letters of Maud's Her most sensational num mother , the formidable and ar ber was her near - nude inter P Pach Neus Sept7 / 1 Kamloops and his wealthy Daily News Rod Deer Advocate Soppata Lelkbud 14 / 80p op hawa veloped a passionate and self- Herald al ish love for Leo , 17 years her ju nior , and her affair with the vio linist lasted for years until they eventually became just good friends . Maud , in declining financial , United States in later years . The Salome Dancer : The Life and Times of Maud Allan , by Felix Cherniavsky : McClel . land and Stewart , 308 pages , $ 19.95 circumstances , returned to the Times 23.lph 9 ) Barrie o cha Examme 위 87 Callaume Standard lopt7 / 21