The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-01
DANCER AND
ELECTRICIAN
LoIE FULLER VISITS THOMAS A.
EDISON AT LLEWELYN PARK.
The wizard In Capital Vein Talks
of His Experiences, His Depend
ence Upon Pie For Mental Slim
illus, and His Respect For Japan
csc Students.

ITO get Edison's attention you have
but to demand the impossible, said
Colonel Goureaud on our way TO the
great mans laboratory at Orange. Il
prophecy for you an occasion of ex-
traordinary interest. The. combination
of Edison and Loie Fuller is some
thing unique in the way of an inter-
view. To begin with, Ia Loie is dis
t:nctly a woman of brains and almost
unlimited resources, with tremendous
magnetic power TO boot. You wiz
see her PROFOUND the impossible TO
Edison, and you will see how he will
snap at it.
Az it was even so. What the clever
dancer didn't ask for in the way of the
novel and weird fantastic and unat-
tainable in color effects, doesn't exist,
even in her seeming cer5Drum- In a mo-
ment she had EdiSon's wrapt attention,
and il was net long before he began
pulling vigorously at his right eyebrow,
d sure indication of concentrated
thought with him; and then at intervals
we would hear, Yes, yes; 1 think that
could be done. You ought to be able
to produce. that effect, etc. In fact
they talked of dynaTloS and podara-
scopes, OF 1900 power lenses and X
rays; of polarized light and cellular
systems, OF fiuorescing and equivalents,
in way that was pure jargon to the
unenlightened one of whom L know Sc
cretly rejoiced when the conversation
turned uron the distinguished men MS
Fuller had me. abroad, and involved
the more personal side of the man OF
genius before us whose face, brilliant
with thought, seemed TO me the most
Fascinating L had ever seen, and whose
simple, even child-like nlanners-for he
was in the vein charmed one be-
yond expression. They did not leave
the subject however, until the famous
electrician and dancer had arranged
that in the near future Miss Fuller
should spend a week in the laboratory
experimenting with Mr.. Edison on color
effects; and though the fair danseuse
had planned to start the next day for
a trip that would land her in China,
she wisely considered it worth while to
cancel some future engagements IN
order to return and work out new
schemes with so able a collaboration as
the one and only Edison.
IF you could ger silk woven 500
threads to the inch," he at one time
remarked, land l am sure You could
get this done for you in China, and then
nave the lnI6auS tHlSl6u anu OIStOI lCO,
you would in a right light get every
variation of the Drisma.ic colors; mil
lions Of hues; it would be gorgeous,
simply gorgeous. You can't get that
effect with the silk here, it is all SO
fearfully loaded But in some parts of
China they weave with the single fibre,
and d piece voluminous enough to fill
this room wouldn't weigh more than
an ounce
MY dancing robe of 500 yards L can
draw through an ordinary gold ring, y
said Miss Fuller.
1T is that fineness that gives the
marvellous shades that you see in the
mother of pearl in the oyster; that runs
about 500 sections 10 the inch -
"Apropos of nothing, Mr.. Edison, did
you ever NEE. Flarlarrion?'' asked
Miss Fuller.
'Flamarrion of Paris, the man with
the brilliant Imagination
Yes, that he IS, surely. But he is
one of the greatest astronomers in the
world for all that"
Yes. know him. Undeniably a great