Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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a Herdancing was risqu ............. ............ P 1895. He was hanged in 1898 , and The Salome Dancer the unsavory publicity haunted Allan The LisnaTimes of Maud Allan for the rest of her life . By Fein . Cheniavsky A family connection seems to McCleland l Stewart , 308 pp , have triggered Canadian author $ 19.95 Felix Cherniavsky to write the book . The Cherniavsky Trio , comprised of KATHRYN GREENAWAY Felix's father , Mischel ( cellist ) , and THE GAZETTE brothers , Jan ( pianist ) , and Leo ( vi olinist ) , toured extensively with oor Maud Allan . The Cana- Allan . The working relationship ce diar - born freestyle dancer mented a friendship which lasted a made a brief impact on the until Allan died in Los Angeles , at vance world in the early age 76 , in 1956. Her papers were en 1900s for mostly the wrong reasons . trusted to the trio . First there was the seductive solo Cherniavsky's reconstruction of Vision of Salome . Stripping down to Durrant's murder trial and conse the bare necessities , Allan titillated quent execution makes for the Europe with a steamy dance based catchiest reading . Allan , on the other on the treacherous biblical hand , is a duller read , and comes temptress . She called it art . The crit across as a flash - in - the - pan talent ics described it as either a decadent who played her 15 minutes of fame vaudeville routine or her main claim to the hilt with the crafty marketing 10 artistic fame , although she per- skills of an Edwardian Madonna . ſormed many other solos . At the height of her success peo Then there were the murders . ple could buy post - performance Allan was the sister of Theodore Allan souvenirs ( flower - pot statucs ) . Durrani , a convicted killer who Cherniavsky writes that his father strangled and mangled two women once told Allan her triumphs were in a church just down the street from “ only a fluke and no clothes made the family's San Francisco home in her name . “ Montreal Garcite Aug 9