Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-23
DANGERS CHARM
TRAIL VISITORS
ORIENTAL AND OCCIDENTAL
STYLES SEEN
ALL VARIETIES OF THE ART
Oregon Climate Proves Stimulating
and Adds to the LIveIlness Of the
cIrIs-"Mldwsy" shows Are
Toned Down
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
PORTLAND, July 22.-Dancing as
they do It in the far east is now being
done In the far west. You can witness
various styles Of It on the Trail at the
Portland fair. The girls who gyrate In
the several attractions that call for
dancing seem to find the oregon ozon@
a quality that makes for liveliness.
They have the advantage here Of al
cool climate, without humidity, and can
dance to the limit without danger OF
sunstroke.
OF course you have seen such things
before. II you have attended expositions
since Chicago invented the midway"
as a worlds fair adjunct and intro
duced for the first time to a gasping
American public the muscle-dancer of
the Orient. But at Portland the dane
ing has been toned down to avoid the
more or less shocking innovation which
caused the occident, dozen years ago,
such perturbation and protest. While
there was not any preconcerted protest
in the case Of the Lewis and Clark ex
position, such as Is said to have been
made prior to the st. Louis fair, the
several concessionaires who have
dancers on their programs seem 10
have struck a happy medium, and one
hears but little criticism from the con-
ventional visitor.
Real Oriental Dancing
There are two or three concession
enterprises where the genuine Oriental
brand of dancing is presented, with its
accessories-the glittering, clinking
spangles and the weird music of the
east. But If the Trailer should seek a
variety he has not far to go. There
are plenty of fancy dance artistes"
who scorn the wriggly movements oil
the pearls of Persia, preferring to DO
kicks taught them by United States
dancing masters Moreover, there is
one big attraction where more than a
hundred girls have the stage, and nI
this large collection of tights-clad
beauties there are several girls who
really know how to dance in such n
manner as to enchain the spectators,
and and they are sIaanrtisstes without tn.
necessity of wearing sandwich placards
to proclaim the fact. This is Bolossy
KiraIfy's Carnival Of Venice" which
is staged in a most novel way, with a
sheet of real water-also real deep
between the dancing girls and the am
phitheater, where the spectators sit
under huge canvas awning. The
"bald head" row, while near enough
for the occupants thereof to get the full
benefit of the performance, is not 50
close to the orchestra as to be in danger
OF deafening by the music. The orches-
ira sits in a long box just at the edge
of the waterway in front of the foot
lights, and the leader makes a striking
figure with his abundant shock of white
hair, very like Mark Twain's head at
rear view.
Prlma Donna From ST. Louis
st. Louis furnishes the prima donna
of the Kiralfy spectacle, in the person
of Miss Mabel McCane. This young
woman is quite beauty, and she has
risen very rapidly from the chorus to
the center of the stage. Born and
reared in St. Louis, she learned how to
sing under the tutelags of the leading
instructors there, and last season she T
became member of Kiralfy's Louis
lana" production at the Odeon theater.
Her talent was recognized early, and
though that was her first stage ex-
perience she was brought to Portland
this season as the leading woman. Miss
McCane appears in several changes Of
costume. the most attractive being that
of Japanese girl, in which she sings
pretty little Japanese song.
Kiralfy's pony ballet" always makes
a hit with crowd. The ponies are
six in number. built on the soubrette
plan, and well trained in athletics.
They perform some amazing evolutlons,
such as turning handsprings to qulsk]
music, playing leap. frog and tossing
each other about in the air overhead.
The ponies never fail of recall.
oueets OF cairo
Over on the main thoroughfare of the
Trail is that old friend of the exposi-
tion visitor, the Streets Of Cairo show.
CASTOR Akoun. the man who first gave
us the time-honored Cairo thorough
fares at Chicago and who introduced
the muscle dance to the new world, is
at the head Of this attraction. Last
year he called 1t Mysterious Asia" ami
vas located on the Pike. His Portland
performance is really superior. from the
standpoint Of gaiety. to the entertain
ment which he gave the pikers. Akoun
has half dozen dancing girls, guar
anteed mo two alike" The original
Fatima is here, but she is not the
premiere danseuse. That distinction
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