Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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Felix Cherniavsky - Response to "The Salome Dancer"

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JT *** www marw Appalled at Jessie's story ? they all tread lightly , drawing A haunt : " Unlike most dancers , she was geni ture . " Uncharitable , but not inaccu rate , Felix Cherniavsky writes . Even inely musical . As a young woman sł in black and white photos , those eyes pianist , and musicians on the orde had hopes for a concert career as do look blue and dangerous . Even if there were film showing of Busoni ( a sometime lover ) and A tur Rubinstein testified to her mus Allan in performance , it would reveal little about how she danced , or her cality . She made you feel the mus , change from major to minor , or effect on the public . She had few stu critic marveled . Where she wasn dents , left no school . " She simply al chemized a piece of music for you , " a innocent was in the choice of Salom London critic wrote of her visualiza as subject matter . tion of Chopin's Valse in A minor . Most of Christian Europe ar For our part , we can't go back to America still felt it was blasphemy that innocent age . You went on the stage most things in the Bible . A stage at considerable risk to your head of the Church of England , E reputation . Here is Maud's mother , ward VII may have been taking h Isabella Durrant , warning Maud , chances on Allan but he also , to h still a piano student in Berlin , away credit , had “ no wish to pose as a pr from the primrose path : “ Do not tector of morals . ” Decadence w keep late nights if you value your fashionable ; people worked hard looks . Late suppers in ill - smelling , shock . Salome tempted many , i badly ventilated restaurants with cluding Loie Fuller in 1895 , and M : wines will sooner or later give one a Reinhardt staged Oscar Wilde's pe dissipated look and manner , which in fumed verse play in 1904 in Ge a measure will court a familiarity many . Allan , says Cherniavsk that at other times one would not " made Salome a mystifying mixtu permit . " of the erotic and the exotic , artful From restaurant to stage was shrouded in a veil of Edwardian di but a step . Dance was , well , so phys- cretion and good taste . ” Thus pac ical that who could tell the dancer aged , marketed if you will , All : from the dance ? Performing to Cho dared do her Salome in 1906. Thr pin wouldn't preserve Maud's purity . years later , she had the satisfacti " A dance is a dance , and sooner or of smacking Lord Alfred Dougla later , ” a family friend thundered , “ it Wilde's lover , across the face wi her fan when he exclaimed " B will be given in the Variety Halls . 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 i cent show as also in the free beer timacies with John the Baptist ha dives by painted - up beer handlers . anything really to do with Maud A Your daughter would not want her lan's coping with the murder convi name sounded as the Fuller's when tion and hanging of her brother mentioning the dance . " speculation . She did not mind ti The artiest of art dancers , Loie public making the connection : It w : Fuller did not dance so much as waft good for the box office . Theo we webs of silk to music . She was gener- bravely to his death , having made ous to other dancers , but Allan was career out of his innocence . Mai to find this generosity undermined Allan would not have gone on staç by the lesbian circle around Fuller . without this same flair for maki ! Isadora Duncan also claimed to help her audiences willingly susper the younger Allan . But it was a king , their powers of disbelief . England's Edward VII , who really She had her critics . " Fraud A launched the " Salome Dancer . ” She lan , ” some said . But when life wi was the after - dinner entertainment , good it was very , very good . In Lo provided by a society hostess at don , she mingled in polite socie Marianbad . Allan opened with some and lived in Regent's Park . She sa Rubinstein waltzes in Greek cos the world . tume . The king grew restless . There She added to the gaiety of n was a brief intermission , a change of tions : Berliners one week in 194 costume . " Salome's heavily jeweled could choose among the Salon Oriental dress , " wrote one who was Dancer or Artur Schnable or W there , " seemed to concentrate Rogers Lassowerfer . Her final yea around the wrists and ankles , for were sad and sour . Her only conta there seemed to be nothing much with another famous modern dance anywhere else . ” Presented after- Ruth St. Denis , seems to be w : ward to the king , Allan recalled his work in an aircraft factory . " Mi asking : “ Why have we not had the Ruth ” was a riveter , Salome d pleasure of seeing you dance in Lon- drafting . Money was short . She to don ? " Edward then turned to an odd jobs . One was teaching depoi equerry . " Please write to Alfred ment to starlet Jane Wyman , Rona Butt and say we would very much Reagan's first wife .