Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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Canadian Press Clipping Services histories , died shortly after the publication of D - Day Dodgers . He has helped us to digest some difficult history . MARTIN DOWDING judgemental but ultimately absorbing biography . Though virtually unknown today to all but dance historians , Maud Allan found a unique way of expressing her response to music . Her story is worth our attention . PAT BARCLAY +10 ) 362-0140 T Books In Canada Dancoch . Toronto , ON Magazine 12000 30 OCT 01 720 * NG ST 55 " EST sur 5 : 5 TOSCNTO 5 : 273 Musa One moment she is the vampire , softly lulling her victim to sleep ... next she is the lynx , crouched to spring . Always the fascination is animal - like and carnal . THIS EXCERPT from a review of " The Vision of Salome , " the extraordinary dance that conquered London in 1908 , gives a glimpse of what Maud Allan in action was really like . Few who saw her ever forgot the experience , it seems : at one social gathering in Los Angeles circa 1948 , a guest who was introduced to Maud suddenly " dropped to his knees and kissed her hand , " explaining that he “ had seen her dance in Chicago in 1910. " Born in Toronto in 1873 and trans planted to California six years later , Maud Allan had a brother as ( briefly ) famous as herself . He was Theodore Durrant , who was hanged for murder - after a sensational trial and four stays of execution - in 1898. The effect on Maud's personal life and artistic imagi nation was traumatic , as Felix Cherniavsky reveals in The Salome Dancer : The Life and Times of Maud Allan ( McClelland & Stewart , 308 pages , $ 19.95 paper ) , a scattered and DANIEL DANCOCKS's popular history of the D - Day Dodgers : The Canadians in Italy , 1943-1945 ( McClelland & Stewart , 508 pages , $ 34.95 cloth ) is filled with enough anecdotes and solid narrative to keep mili tary buffs occupied for some time . Dancocks describes the long , often frus trating Italian campaign through a straightforward chronological record of its battles , and at the same time provides a close - up view gleaned from the press , offi cial documents , and veterans , including Farley Mowat . Denied much of the equipment needed to mount such an offensive , Canadians in Italy fought a dirty , often forgotten war . The glamorous “ D - Day " front was Normandy , which grabbed the headlines . The men on the Italian front were actual ly accused by some of " dodging " D - Day ; this inspired a popular song among them , from which the book's title derives . But while the " Spaghetti League " meant minor league to some , the cost was far from small : of the 93,000 Canadians who went to Italy , almost 6,000 died , almost 20,000 were wounded , and more than 1,000 were taken prisoner . Many of the personal stories are touch ing , and sometimes terribly sad . Frequently the Italian people helped the allies by hiding them or warning them of approaching Germans . In one incident , Canadians hiding in a haystack were warned by children to move . Soon after , German troops arrived and burned the hay with gasoline . We see families whose sons were killed within days of one anoth er . And we see officers and men who had fought together throughout the entire campaign dying in the final moments of the war . And we see the likes of General Montgomery who , cashing in on Britain's last glory days , unnecessarily prolonged battles such as Ortona and thereby caused high casualty rates . It is indeed sad that Dancocks , the author of six other well - received military a - a