Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-04
LOIE FULLER TO PRESENT BALLET
Famous serpentine Dancer Has EstRb-
Iished school in London.

Iiahed school in London.
LONDON, oct. 3, (Special)-Loie Fuller
has just had a long and intimate con-
ference with the managers Of the new
opera house In Boston. The famous SER
pentine dancer has entered into a con-
tract to supply q ballet e%mbodying some
pet theories Of her own three nights q
week at the Boston house beginning next
October n aitsfating with the grand
opera.
Loie considers herself the mother of the
whole tribe of Salome and scant drapery
dancers who are now filling the vaude-
Vile houses and theaters to overlooking
on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. I
nave heard 1t from Miss Fuller first land
that both Isadore Duncan and Maud Allan
repaired to her in the early stages of their
development for advice and instruction,
and the American dancer Is still carrying
on the good work. Her school for dan
cling in Paris is an old story but that she
has established a school in London will
be news. Mrs Clement Scott, the editress
Of "The Free Lance and the widow of the
late well-wnown English dramatic critic
will be associated with Miss Fuller when
matter develop more fully and at one
time the two women had quite determined
to utilize Mrs, Scott's London home, sit
| udIeu IN the nedTI Oh the All4SElCdn QUAR-
ter, for the school,. Subsequent reflection,
however, developed the fact that there
was not a room large enough in the house
to accommodate the fifty girls who had
already Joined.
Pending the finding of some old English
mansion possessed of q room of the pro-
per dimensions. Miss Fuller has hired the
ballroom OF the Savoy hotel, where she
is staying. and is putting her students
through their steps there. She has a
company OF young dancers on at the Hip
podrome under her direction and will this
week open with another company in Ber-
lin. With her tribe of imitators and
worshipers ever on the increase I would
not be surprised to see before long the
"serpentine" dancer a la Loie Fuller al
most as Ubiquitous as the Salome brand.
Cissle Lotus who has been announced
to appear at the Coliseum during the
second week in October may not appear
at the big London house after all. The
management of the Alhambra theater
have applied for an injunction against
her fulfilling her announced engagement
until she has complied with a five-year-
old contract which the fair Cecilia has
signed with that house before her depart
ure for the Uuited States. 1t appears
that Miss LOTUS entered into an agree
ment to appear for a term at the Alhambra
for about $425 a week., but that upon her
informing the Management that she had
secured an exceptionally good offer from
the Uuited States they agreed to let her
contract stand over until her return. When
she did return TO England 1t was to appear
with Sir Henry Irving, and although the
Alhambra people complained, It was ulti-
mately agreed that she was to be permit
| tad 10 anDaar with Iruinu hnt AZ the ffrgt
subsequent opportunity she was 10 fulfil
her contract with A~hambra.
You can Imagine the fury of the AL
hambra management when a few days
ago IL was announced tina Miss LOTUS
was to appear at the Coliseum in her
famous limitations and that 1t was noised
about that she was to receive no less than
$3.50 a week.
The question of old agreements mad,
at Tidiculously low figuares is one that
troubles the sleep of almost every one OF
the big music hall artists In this coun.
try. People like Harry Lauder and Marie
Lloyd are bound hand and foot by Ions
agreements that were made years age
when they could not command one-tenth
= Of the weekly salary that they could de-
mand today were the old agreements I,
come up for reconsideration. 1 remember
the supeTfuman efforts made by Vests
Victoria to break her English agreement.
after her first appearance and instan.
taneOus success in the United States, wheI
the American managers were offering he
almost any amount of money II she would
prolong her stay. Endless kilograms mad
no effect upon the hard-hearted Englisl
manager and Victoria was compelled I,
= return to these shores to fulfill her en-
gagements.
l suppose Lee Shubert is congratulatin
himself that at last some one has hai
the courage TO a X the Waldorf theateI
London, off his hands. I wouldn't like {
have his losses on the theater since h
J took IL three years ago subtracted from