The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-03-05
DANCER MAKES A HIT
MISS DUNCAN CREATES A STIR
IN BERLIN
So Great an Impression Has the Clever
American Girl Made That the People
of That City Contemplate Erecting
a Theater for Her Exclusive Use.

lheater tor Her Exclusive Use.
Nm every line of endeavor women
Seem to be a the head these days, and
so numerous are ways in which women
are at the fore that no wonder there
are cross old bachelors who say they
should stay at home and take care Of
the house.
Over in Berlin they have fallen des-
perately in love with an American
dancer by the name of Isadora Duncan,
whose peculiar style of gyrating On
her toes has created a veritable Juror.
so much enamored are the Berliners
or Miss Duncan that they propose to
build a theater in the style of a Greek
temple for her, which will cost $250,000.
TO be devoted to he" dancing, and at
Intervals to the presentation of Greek
plays and to concerts.
1t is not known just exactly what
style Of dancing Miss Duncans is, but
1t is stated that SO popular is she that
the price of admission to see her dance
Is as much as to@ee Bernhard and
NJ Coquelin. 1t is not among the peo-
pie alone that Miss Duncan is so liked,
but even his highness, the emperor,
and the titled folk of the court, are
among her patronesses.
1t seems that Miss Duncan formerly
lived in New York where she had class
with motion, which is called dancing
by many. She was taken up by some
society women, made much of and
won recognition for her peculiar art
by enacting Characterization quatrains
from Omar Khayyam, showing great
power of adoption to the Oriental tone
of the poem.
This being something new-and we
live for something new in society
1t was taken up with a rush and Miss
Duncan became the rage. In the midst
of her success in New York she was
caught in the Windsor hotel fire, where
she lived, and was giving a lesson to
class of thirty children of prominent
families when the fire broke out, but
fortunately they all escaped. 1t was
only last year that Miss Duncan went
abroad and in this short space Of time
has made this great success.
Her dancing is said to be the revival
of an old style. For the Berliners to
open their heart to the extent of put
ting UP a theater exclusively for Miss
Duncan makes one believe that her
dancing must be something quite out
Of the ordinary. The American girl
of today generally arrives when she
starts out TO do so.
The popularity Of Mrs. Wigs of the
Cabbage Patch" is unending and
proves one thing conclusively, that a
story does not necessarily have to be
about great people, or refined people,
or rich people, but must be a bit Of
life itself from any source, and the
public recognizes it and appreciates 1t.
1t seems that there is one spot, how
ever, where Miss Wigs is not well
liked, and that is in the Patch itself
which somebody has recently located
In LOuisVille-Or rather in it's suburbs
near the home Of the writer of the
story.
1t appears that the patch is not peo-
pied by the very poor, as the book
would make one believe, and those who
live in Burckhardts addition-the real
name of the Patch-are much aggriev-
ed because of the part they have been
made to play before the world in Alice
Caldwell Hegan's lively tale
There is an old-woman living in the
vicinity who is said to be the original
of Miss Wigs, though it is not safe to
say so in her presence. as she dis
tinctly resents the comparison or iden-
titication, and has said some very hard
things of the book and its writer. Some
one who went to interview her and
said he came from newspaper was
told to get out of the door as soon as
he conveniently could.
Not only was she fierce but Confided
to her visitor that it was well Jimmy
was out, for it was his full intention
to let blood out of the next newspaper
editor" that came there She went on
to speak of her annoyance at being
called Mrs. Wigs and all she had
to suffer in various ways at being den
titled with the strenuous heroine of the
story, but she admitted that Miss He
gan was her friend. She said further
that they were not in need, that Jim
my was doing we'll and they wanted no
charity.
Jimmy too. is much bored with the
part he plays in the book, as he is
hailed everywhere as the Jimmy of the
tale. Indeed the whole family are
worn out with the affair. The writer
of it, now Mrs. Rice, also denies that
the old lady above mentioned is Mrs
Wigs in entirety, though admitting
she is part of the composite portrait.
She says that stories she heard in
childhood, and what she knew of the
Patch, somewhat embellished gave her
the outline for her story
A st. Paul woman was talking about
the friendships of women recently and
said, There is such a thing as being
too intimate, and this happens more
often among women than with men,
The fierce intimacies which exist
among young married wonderland
have one or two in st. Paul in my
mind-are most always a mistake.
"A married woman should have but
one very intimate friend, and that her
husband. believe more divorces have
come through these great intimacies
than from any other cause
The intimacy between two young
couples where they each pair off, each
wife with the others husband, leads
to trouble. No woman should allow
anyone to become so intimate that she
can enter her house or room without
knocking. This is a good rule to cling
to.
There are one or two cases in ST.
Paul of a woman seeing nothing of
her friends because she is so absorbed
in one other woman. These friendships
are too strenuous to last. They begin
In the morning by going together down
town to do their household errands.
then sometimes one will go to the 9TH
er's house to luncheon, if not they meet