Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-03
is A PRINCESS
OF PEARL TINTS
DANCER WOULD BE FINE IN
"SEVEN Wells"
Loie Fuller Inspires cIaretie with a
Desire to See Her Pefsonate the
"saIome" Ousted from
New York
snecinl cahlo to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald.
PARIS, March 2.-"Only too soon Loie
Fuller will leave Paris" sighs Jules
Claretie, academican and manager of
the Comedie Franchise, in one Of his
famous weekly articles on Paris life.
"Then, with only the memory of her
mystic charm, we shall think, of her as
fitting hither and thither at will She
is an Elusive fairy, q magic princess of
pearl tlnts, Of opalescent and evanes-
cent beams, of blue flames and pink
flames that flash in her wake like
trail of rose petals.
"She will vanish I'm an apotheosis of
light and color-until she returns with
some new invention, some fairyland set
ting such as one dreams of for 'Salome'
the Salome, which has been ousted
from the Metropolitan opera house in
New York because the sight of st.
Johns decapitated head seemed to the
proprietors to be proclamation. The livid,
bleeding head would be terrifying, in
deed if the face of Loie Fuller loorned
above it as a faint halo. Perhaps we
shall see her thus in Paris some time.
That scene is depicted Cor us in the
paintings of great masters. Why
should theaters not have the same free
dom as museums?
"I tried to learn from her how she
first thought of those luminous dances
which are continued delight and en-
chantment to all Parisians. But she
speaks more readily of philosophy than
of the footlights.
"'It's all luck she smiled. Light
came to me before went to it,
"It was luck, too, that brought her
meeting with Alexander Dumas. She
was playing the younger roles, such as
Ophelia and Juliet when her troupe
went to the East Indies. One day In
Calcutta as the actors were eating in
the open air Miss Fuller noticed negro
dressed in European fashion wandering
forlornly about and eyeing their table
covetously. He looked like an exile,
and indeed he turned out to be one.
The players invited him to join them.
"The next day he disappeared without
having told his name. Some years later
Loie Fuller was giving her first per-
formance in Paris, with what success
we all know. We all remember the
robes and the fire dance that was the
| intoxication of poets and artists. One
morning visiting card was handed to
her, the minister of the Haytian repub-
lie to Paris.
"'I let him come in The minister en-
tered and Loie Fuller recognized the
black stranger who had sat with her
and the company of actors in Calcutta.
A revolution had cut short his lonely
exile and he was then representing his
| IL, ha Eratonh nQnit1l He
knew Dumas and introduced Loie Full
ller to the eminent playwright.
"The author of Camille" living! /
thought he died long ago. she cried.
"And Dumas was astonished at the
mentality of this woman, this seeker or
novelties who had seen so many coun-
tries, who was able to draw a lively
contrast between American society (she
was born in Chicago) and our society;
who analysed the demi-monde, which
does not exist in America, and the ia
nous -Four Hundred which represents
| American aristocracy 1--WE in France
have owners of autos instead, and our
Four Hundred is really an autocracy).
Charmed, Dumas listened and Joseph
Primoli photographed the dancer and
| the author of Denise as they philo-
sophized in the lanes of Marty.
"Loie Fuller could talk on anything
| to Dumas Yesterday when I was
speaking to her she turned my thoughts
to Curie as she described the marvels of
radium as Crookes had shown them to
her. The idea of radium haunts her.
She would like to catch and imprison
it's light. She dreams of new and fan
ciful illuminations. of powerful bril-
liancies which could accompany Wag-
ner's works, adding their radiant har-
mony to the musical grandeur of the
master.
"Ah! If could! If could! Think
of the ride of the Valkyries become liv-
| ing and luminous, as 1 understand 1t,
as see it!' g."