Felix Cherniavsky - Contemporary Articles about Maud Allan

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Felix Cherniavsky - Contemporary Articles about Maud Allan

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When Maud gets mad ... GAS entertaining Canadians since 1966 ? NOISES OFF one of a ALLAN , MAUD S Maud Allan reaching from beyond the grave to express her displcasure ? Allan , a Canadian dancer in ternationally famous at the dawn of the century for her version of Salo mé , had a tortured early life . Her father was sexually abusive , and her brother Theodore assaulted and murdered two women whom he stuffed in a church belfry . He was hanged in 1898 . Director - choreographer Paul Ibey is bringing Maud Allan's story back to life in his dance - theatre produc tion The Last Veil , opening tonight at the Alumnac Theatre . The pro duction has been plagued -- haunted ? --- from the start : • Ibey has gone through four Mauds , including one who " just flipped . " • Ibey wanted to use music from a scary , Armaggcdon - is - nigh movie called The Seventh Sign ( The Last Veil has been mounted twice before ; both nights it closed , The Seventh Sign was on TV ) . He searched eve rywhere for a CD , and finally found one it was defective . He finally found others , went to tape one and got only white noise . He later went to on DAT , " - , cause it's run by computers . " Every time he tried to do anything , the computer crashed , and what should have taken four hours took from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. • Ibey found a doll with no legs he dubbed Mini - Maud . He then discovorod Now All ... flagship and that Eric Malling and executive producer Peter Rehak were scrambling madly to convince CTV president John Cassaday and news vice - prez Eric Morrison to leave the show alone . “ The show is definitely not being cancelled . It's still in the schedule for next year , " Morrison toh us . But it is true that some contracts haven't been signed because the number of episodes to be produced in the new season has not yet been determined . This season , there were 22 original episodes of W5 , according to Rehak , and there's currently some discussion about reducing the number to as few as 19 for '94 -95 . Hey , shouldn't the network be feeling more generous to a show that averaged a million viewers per episode and has been informing and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was buried this week , but memories of her live on . Toronto literary agent Dean Cooke remembers meeting Onassis on a trip to New York in the early 1980s . Though he was only a young cditor at Doubleday's Canadian division and she an exalted one at Doubleday headquarters , " She was the only person I met there who remembered me and acknowledged my presence in the hall the next day . " Cooke remembers a particular meeting to discuss a new book , a companion volume to a major art exhibit called Freasures of the Vatican . Which important person could they find to write the book's introduction ? The Doubleday editors began silently flipning through their mental roloderes , then realized who was in their midst -- She Who Knows Everyone . Heads turned toward Jackie . Pausing to think only briefly , she said , “ Well ... I could get the Pope . " God , that's clout . 9 a which is supposedly fall proof , be " UNIQUELY COMPELLING “ AND DEEPLY MOVING ! " MONTREALGAZETTE

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