Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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Peterborough Examiner Peterborough , ON DAILY 27927 05 SEP 91 720 KING STREET WEST . SUITE 515 TORONTO . ONTARIO M5V 2T3 Book chronicles dazzling life of lusty Canadian - born dancer 652 By ROD CURRIE The Canadian Press If Maud Allan , described by a . writer in 1908 as " a delicious embodiment of lust , ” was just a flash in the pan , she was some flash . The Toronto - born dancer , most famous for her sensational Salome interpretations , performed for the King of England and toured five continents . She was the toast of London society , a pathological liar and sister of the man charged in what was improbably billed as “ the crime of the century . ” But even biographer Felix Cherniavsky , who treasures childhood memories of " Auntie Maud , " seems uncertain whether she was a real star or a spectacular , short - lived firework . Like reviewers of the time , he debates whether she was a true genius creating a new art form or was simply a dancer whose work was more phenomenon than art - maybe a remarkable fluke of no enduring significance : Whatever , Maud had a stunning talent for self promotion and was a splendid letter writer and diary keeper , recording - true or false - her life as she chose to remember it . Cherniavsky , whose Uncle Leo was the great passion of Maud's life , also has drawn from the letters of Maud's mother , the formidable and articulate Isabella Durrnt , and other family records in writing The Salome Dancer . The Life and Dancer Maud Allan . Times of Maud Allan . Performing in the barefoot prime minister , and his wealthy CHURCH MURDERS style of such rivals as Mata Hari wife Margot . Born in 1873 , Maud moved with - later executed as a spy for the From there she launched her her family at age six to Sar Germans during the First World world tours , though she never Francisco - the scene of the War - Isadora Duncan and Ruth again matched the London great family tragedy when St. Denis , Maud brought to her conquest . Maud's adored brother Theo , a artan electric imagination , It was while touring in medical student and all . instinctive dramatic flair and a American boy , was charged with Johannesburg that she met the shapely , scantily clad figure . murdering two young women in Her most sensational number Cherniavsky Trio of Leo , Jan and Michael - author Felix a church . was her near - nude interpretation Maud , a brilliant student of Cherniavsky's father . Maud of The Vision of Salome , piano , was accepted at age 22 developed a passionate and oecasionally banned and often into the Royal Academy of Music selfish love for Leo , 17 years her the subject of florid newspaper in Berlin , where she remained junior , and her affair with the accounts . through the three years of Theo's violinist lasted for years until Her big break came with a trial , appeals and court they eventually became just private performance for King manoeuvres before he was Edward VII at Marienbad spa in good friends . executed . Maud , in declining financial what is now Czechoslovakia , Theo was convinced he was circumstances , returned to the paving the way for her glittering innocent and Chérniavsky , a United States in later years , entry into the theatrical native of Vancouver now living depending on friends , associates limelight of London . in Edmonton , is convinced Theo and old lovers to maintain her Although already 35 she spun standard of living until she died was mad . her 1908 Londorf debut in the The trauma of her brother's at BA in 1956 . Palace Theatre of Varieties into case imposed a terrible strain on a 18 - month triumph , holding Maud and she suddenly changed audiences in a state of rapture . The Salome Dancer : The Life her name , gave up piano and , Meanwhile , she was a social and Times of Maud Allat , by with no training , turned to star offstage , befriending the Felix Cherniavsky : McClelland dancing likes of Herbert Asquith , later and Stewart . 308 pages . $ 19.95 se