The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-25
WAS FULL OF ROMANCE
Death Ends the Eventful Career
of Omene.
SHE DIED AT MONTREAL
Was in Butte Three Months in 1897 and
Spent Several Seasons in the
Coast Country Was a
Cultured Linguist.

A private letter received in Butte
yesterday stated that Omene the ori-
entail dancer, 1.-The divine odalesuue,"
we'll known in Butte and throughout
the Northwest, died ut Montreal on
April of cancer. Omone was in Butte
for about three months in the summer
of 1897 and played an engagement at
the Casino theater. at the Union Fam
lily. and also appeared at Columbia
gardens and at the Grand opera house,
and left the city with the Orphean stars
company. which played a brief tour
through the Sound country. Later she
bought an interest in a Seattle variety
theater and then followed the Klondille
rush and went as far as Fort Wrangle
but not liking her Alaskan experience
she returned to Seattl", where she met
financial reVerses becaus" of the ras
cality of business associates. and after
relieving herself of the burden of her
beautiful daughter, Nadine, by mar
rying her to an old man in Seattle. she
left for the East, nothing more being
heard of her here until the announce
ment of her death was received.
Although not more than 30 years of
age, Omene had lived Il life of expert
ences that ordinarily would have round
ed out half a dozen lives. She was an
educated and cultured woman and
spoke fluently eight different languages.
Her career was in many respects re-
markable and full of romance.
Although she seldom spoke of her
early life, enough of ii is known to es-
tablish the fact that she was born in
Constantinpole, Turkey, her father be-
ing an officer in the Turkish army and
brother of Pasha Osman, the noted
Turkish general and minister of war.
Her mother was a Circassian woman.
At the age of years Omene became a
dancer in the harems and continued as
such until she was about Il years old,
when she became the wife, or, rather,
the property, of an English army otii-
Ger. She has said that he stole her and
carried her off to Alexandria, Egypt,
where he was then stationed. 1t is more
probable, however, that he secured her
by fairer means than was claimed by
Omene. For reasons Of her own she
never diVulged the name of the En-
glishman. She lived with him at Alex
andra for or 10 years and the daugh-
ter, Nadine, was born there. The En-
glishman discarded her and subse-
quently she turned up in London,
where she first introduced at the the
aters the Turkish national dance. or
danse du Ventre, which, in these days,
has been variously and vulgarly termed
the couchee couchee, the houla houla.
etc. She created a sensation, both be-
cause of her dancing and WOndrous
beauty. and in a short time she had a
world wide reputation. During her
London engagement she fell in with
Yank Hoe, or Yanko, a magician, who
brought her to America as his assist
ant about nine years ago and she ac-
cOmpanied him on a tour through the
Eastern states, and then returned to
Europe and resumed her dance. In 1892
she came back to America with her
daughter and introduced her Sensa-
tional dance here. The Eastern news
papers took her up and for months she
was given more newspaper space than
any public parsonage in the world of
amusement She was in Chicago with
her dance a year before it was pre-
scented on the Midway by women of var
ious nationalities who We're passed off
as Turkish harem dancers. When the
popularity of the danse du ventre be-
which she had become remarkably
clever, and she started on tour OF
America with il and was on her way
to the coast when she appeared i'll
Butte.
Omene had received financial backing
and had planned another European
tour expecting to appear at Paris dur
ing the forthcoming exposition, but her
death put an end to all.