Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-02-26
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AT two o'clock yesterday mornin g
Aline LeFavre, a noted Can-Can
dancer, died at her clearinghouse il
the upper portion Of the city. She had an
eventful history, with part of which the
people of Memphis are familiar. Four
years ago she appeared in Memphis i'm
company with Mons. Vieudemont at one
of our Variety theaters. Vieudemont
was Partisan, and man of many ac-
compliments. He spoke several Ian
guages, sang and danced well, and fenced
in the style Of master Of the carte
and tierce" business. He kept fene-
ing academy in Chicago, and first saw
Aline LeFavre maggie Cox at one of
the variety halls of that city. lie and
she entered into partnership at once-a
kind of semi-Platonic arrangement after
the French school, and soon the pair APP
peared as the delineators Of the Can
Can, and danced it was by this pair as
it never was danced in the Jardin Ma
bile" or in any place ON earth outside
Of the United States. In Memphis it
created furore, its unblushing and hor-
ribly suggestive figures, as performed by
this strange woman and this sardonic
Frenchman, attracting crowds to the Va
rieties theaters whenever they appeared.
About year after their appearance in
this city Vieudemont was shot and
killed:in Thompson's Variety Theater on
Second, near Jefferson street. He was
shot accidentally by man who had
opened fire on Jimmy Schooles, an at
tachee of the concern. Vieudemont died
next day, and, before dying, was mar
ried to Maggie Cox by one of the Do
minican clergymen of this city. She
remained here some time longer and
soon after leaving Memphis married
Johnny Manning, variety performer
we'll known in our city. Since that time
she has been in California and Oregon,
where she acquired a considerable
amount of money by her "Can-Can" per-
Torrance. Some two weeks ago LeFavre |
returned to Memphis in order to play an
engagement at the Olympic Varieties,
on Washington street. She was unable
to appear having taken sick and rapidly
grew worse until she died. She claimed
to be sister of one of the Recorders of
New York city, her real name being
Maggie Cox-LeFavre being her stage
name. 1t is strange coincidence that
she should come back to die in a city
where she first became famous or noto-
rious as a.Can- Cannist, and where ter
rible. tragedy separated her and the man
In Elmwood sleeps the
mysterious Frenchman, and now the
dust of Aline LeFavre will mingle with
his ashes, and flowers will bloom and
birds will sing above the graves of as
noted and strange pair of human beings
as ever appear on earth. LeFavre
was woman finely formed, and not
particularly well educated except in the
ways of the world. She had many good
qualities of the heart, and often wisely
stated: "They say make money by ca
.ering to the lewd taste of the public,
,ut what of that2 No one will refuse to
axe the money so made; not even the
most selfrighteous of them will do So"
There was world of philosophy in the
emark, the color and purity of the gold
icing all that is closely examined by
and not how it is acquired.
Us our friend, the local" of the APP f;
zeal, states: "LeFavre was great ,
title woman in her day, and leaves
'erhRps more genuine admirers behind
Ter than better people"