Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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Ununc WVDU uangCLO , DUC was sculu " na viac ALMAL NUUUUV VA VALU UVVU . | character has his or her own takes patience and time , they ture . ” Uncharitable , but not inaccu rate , Felix Cherniavsky writes . Even inely musical . As a young woman she in black and white photos , those eyes pianist , and musicians on the order had hopes for a concert career as a do look blue and dangerous . Even if there were film showing tur Rubinstein testified to her musi of Busoni ( a sometime lover ) and Ar Allan in performance , it would reveal little about how she danced , or her cality . She made you feel the music effect on the public . She had few stu- change from major to minor , one critic marveled . Where she wasn't dents , left no school . " She simply al innocent was in the choice of Salome chemized a piece of music for you , " a as subject matter . London critic wrote of her visualiza tion of Chopin's Valse in A minor . Most of Christian Europe and For our part , we can't go back to America still felt it was blasphemy to that innocent age . You went on the stage most things in the Bible . As stage at considerable risk to your head of the Church of England , Ed reputation . Here is Maud's mother , ward VII may have been taking his Isabella Durrant , warning Maud , chances on Allan but he also , to his still a piano student in Berlin , away credit , had “ no wish to pose as a pro from the primrose path : “ Do not tector of morals . ” Decadence was keep late nights if you value your fashionable ; people worked hard to looks . Late suppers in ill - smelling , shock . Salome tempted many , in badly ventilated restaurants with cluding Loie Fuller in 1895 , and Max wines will sooner or later give one a Reinhardt staged Oscar Wilde's per dissipated look and manner , which in fumed verse play in 1904 in Ger a measure will court a familiarity many . Allan , says Cherniavsky , that at other times one would not " made Salome a mystifying mixture permit . " of the erotic and the exotic , artfully From restaurant to stage was shrouded in a veil of Edwardian dis but a step . Dance was , well , so phys cretion and good taste . " Thus pack ical that who could tell the dancer aged , marketed if you will , Allan from the dance ? Performing to Cho- dared do her Salome in 1906. Three pin wouldn't preserve Maud's purity . years later , she had the satisfaction " A dance is a dance , and sooner or of smacking Lord Alfred Douglas , later , " a family friend thundered , “ it Wilde's lover , across the face with will be given in the Variety Halls . her fan when he exclaimed “ But You have only to look at that girl your brother was a murderer ! ” Fuller's dance . It is given in the ten- Whether the Biblical Salome's in cent show as also in the free beer timacies with John the Baptist have dives by painted - up beer handlers . anything really to do with Maud Al Your daughter would not want her lan's coping with the murder convic name sounded as the Fuller's when tion and hanging of her brother is mentioning the dance . " speculation . She did not mind the The artiest of art dancers , Loie public making the connection : It was Fuller did not dance so much as waft good for the box office . Theo went webs of silk to music . She was gener- bravely to his death , having made a ous to other dancers , but Allan was career out of his innocence . Maud to find this generosity undermined Allan would not have gone on stage by the lesbian circle around Fuller . without this same flair for making Isadora Duncan also claimed to help her audiences willingly suspend the younger Allan . But it was a king , their powers of disbelief . England's Edward VII , who really She had her critics . " Fraud Al launched the “ Salome Dancer . ” She lan , " some said . But when life was was the after - dinner entertainment , good it was very , very good . In Lon provided by a society hostess at don , she mingled in polite society Marianbad . Allan opened with some and lived in Regent's Park . She saw Rubinstein waltzes in Greek cos- the world . tume . The king grew restless . There She added to the gaiety of na was a brief intermission , a change of tions : Berliners one week in 1906 costume . " Salome's heavily jeweled could choose among the Salome Oriental dress , " wrote one who was Dancer or Artur Schnable or Will there , " seemed to concentrate Rogers Lassowerfer . Her final years around the wrists and ankles , for were sad and sour . Her only contact there seemed to be nothing much with another famous modern dancer , anywhere else . ” Presented after- Ruth St. Denis , seems to be war ward to the king , Allan recalled his work in an aircraft factory . “ Miss asking : " Why have we not had the Ruth ” was a riveter , Salome did pleasure of seeing you dance in Lon- drafting . Money was short . She took don ? " Edward then turned to an odd jobs . One was teaching deport equerry . " Please write to Alfred ment to starlet Jane Wyman , Ronald Butt and say we would very much Reagan's first wife . For over 100 years , Belmont Springs has been tastes too good to resist . And with our free trial offer , 9 + FREE Get your first month's coc of Belmont Springs water months ) when you sign u . BELMONT 18 * For qu SPRINGS ton only . B rental