The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-10
Proposal Of Temple Of Art Was Too
Much for Even Paris to Stand
and the City
Gasps.
BERENcER ON DUTY
Official Shock Absorber Of the City
Gets Busy and Follows Usual
Method Of Trying
Something.

~SPSAAoShS Ol LILO OultGu TTGSS.
PARIS, November 9.--Will, or will
not Miss Isadore Duncan, Americas
premiere dancer of the classics, be
allowed by the police, to build her
Temple of Art" where all that rs
choice in the terpsichorean line will
be on top?
OR Will the forces which have been
launched against her and her tempe
prove the stronger, depriving fair
Paris Of something which Miss Dun
cans admirers declare win make the
city fairer still?
Some months ago Miss Duncan ap-
peared at the Chatelet theatre ana
danced to the music OF Gluck, Wagner
and Listz. Paris was shocked. One
or two of the newspapers reflected
this shock in articles insinuating tina.
the lovely American had oversteppeo
the limits Of convention bit by TAX
Ing off too many of her clothes, before
essaying certain dances. She had, in
a way, out-Parised Paris, and Paris,
that is. certain parts of it, was ag-
grieved.
Among the shocked ones, it is said
was Senator Berenger. Senator Ber-
enger is constantly being shocked. He
is Frances human shock-attractor il
not shock-absorber. And the senator
when shocked generally acts. He
acts by trying to get the police to in.
terfere with the thing which has
shocked him. Fortunately, French
folk say, he generally ends by only
trying. Mile. Regina Dadet, whose
dances in this city have charmed thou.
sands by their daring, has been more
than the object of Senator Berenger's
displeasure. But her dances have not
been stopped.
| So, when a short time ago it was
announced that Miss Duncan proposed
to erect, in Paris, her temple of art
and give it in new interpretations o.
the. Grecian classics, to the. music q
master-musicians the shocked Grove
was as vexed as her admirers were
/ ptCh6Cu. hCl, LlG ptoi EOScJ tAilhS,
began to happen. Miss Duncan sc
lected a site for her temple only t.
find, after negotiations were we'll I'm
der way, that it was not available.
4 Another site and another similar ex
perience. And so on:
The "Cri de Paris Is authority TO,
the insinuation that the police, actin,
under instructions from a certain
monsieur, are back of Miss Duncanf
trouble in securing site, and ask
i the question: (Which will win? Thu
beautiful dancer, or the force which
lis opposing herr"
| Among the most ardent admirers o
Miss Duncan's art is the world famou
sculptor, Auguste Rodin.
Word has reached Parts from 81
Petersburg that some fear is fel
there of the growing Importance
Germany as an air-power. and thai
to the existing alliance on land an
sea between France and Russia,
4 J0lTu dSIGClllClt iihJ oNcAA W 80 - =
at, placing the aeroplanes and dirit
ibles of the two countries on CT
operative basis
Germany is said to be strengthenin
her winged army particularly alon
the French and Russian frontiers;
Thorn, Koenigsberg, Broslau and
Dantzig especially. Russia, it Is III
derstood, is to push forward as fas
, as possible with her aerial fleet, s
. that at not very distant date, sh
can do her share of the work in th
agreement spoken of.
France Is not particularly afraid
Germany. France early took the lea
and now stands squarely in the opel
with the announcement that Whateve
Germany does in aeroplanes and q
rigible construction, she, France, WI
, Guido: she will retain her position
mistress of the air" guarding 1t
jealously as ever England guarde
, her title as mistress of the seas