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that Maud Allan,s dance.

certain that Maud Allan's dance. The
Vision of Salome," must never arrive.
Even in England 1t has met with some
opposition. The city Of Manchester would
have none Of 1t, so 1t was brought hither.
where the London public in one Of Its perl
odical fits OF immortality has made 1t the
fashion. In one Of the double acts at the
Palace the woman expresses a desire to
sing. She would like, she fancies, to sing
The Holy City"
SAM" she says. will you buy me 1.-The
Holy City?'
Go along now he nswer you know
I'm not rich enough to buy you Manches-
ter"
Whereat London shakes with laughter
and murmurs, "Beastly clever, don't We
think"
Miss Allan's preliminary bouts are called
classic dances" She has the stage hung
In dark gray draperies and the music con-
sists Of such numbers as Chopln's A minor
valse and Mendelssohn's Spring Song"
Miss Allan energies from a slit in the dra-
perry.
She is clad in a loose low necked tunic Of
gray chiffon. which hangs in easy folds
to her knees. The left side Of the skirt
is slit to the waistband. The dancers
legs are bare, but a thin underskirt Of
white partly hides the upper part Of the
left limb.
Her hair is ciassicaliy arranged and
makes a good frame for a plain but mobile
face, which is expressively employed in
the pantomime of the dancers. The bare
feet, which are fiat and unsymmetrical,
show pink toes and heels, not always free
from the dust of the carpet.
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but as shown they are a guarantee of
good faith, for the most anxious and in
dustrious opera glass, working its way up
ward from the prominent ankle bones to
the shapely pointed kneecaps and still.
further can find no trace of law abiding
tights. The dancer wears only the flesh
ings" with which Nature provided her.
The classic dances are graphic per-
formances OF the sort dreamed of by
Wagner when he planned the yet unseen
ballet OF "Tannhauser." Miss Allan I'M
dulates, waivers, runs, slides, bends and
sways through a series Of movements
ostensibly designed to interpret the poetic
meanings OF the music. Ever and anon
she makes a sudden rush. leaps into the air
and descends doubled up till she is the
living reproduction OF one OF Burne-Jones'
dyspeptic damsels. At these moments
the opera glasses sweat with eagerness.
but one sees only Bunthorne's "writhing
maid, lank limbed."
When three OF four of these dances have
been done the curtain descends and an
intermission prepares the opera glasses for
the piece de resistance, 9TH Vision Of
salome'" The rising curtain discloses a
stage set with obelisks. each adorned with
a torch, and a backing OF moonlit garden.
In the center at the back stands the dancer,
erect. with feet together, arms extended
and head thrown back. showing a well
turned throat.
Her hair is now black, Orientally ar.
ranged and surmounted by a headdress OF
eastern fashion. Her breast shows the
circular plates seen in pictures OF Amazons
Across the front Of the torso swing two OF
three pendants. From a waistband up
ported by the. hips hangs a skirt OF black
net. Just below the waist is some sort OF
undergarment Of the kind usually worn by
ballet dancers when they appear in tights,
But this dancer does not wear tights
Neither above nor below does she weal
them. Except for the articles mentioned
she Is absolutely naked. body and limbs