South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-11-19
CLEO SHOWS EARS
And WINS Her SUIT
Famous Dancer of Quarter Of
a Century Ago Comes Back
in Limelight.

PARIS. Ssev. ts-..'KIngs may,
come. ana kings may go. but I go
on forever sang cleo de Merode
the other LAY when after an abs
sence from tae public eye OF "a
quarter OF century. the erstwhile
famous dancer jumped right back
Into the first pages OF all the Paris
newsp@pers by proving that she
had ears
Time was. in the days when I'd
ward Prince or Wales. and Leopold.
King Of the Belgians were citizens
OF Paris by unanimous vote OF the
boulevards when 90 pleased Cleo
de Merode 10 twist her hair Eat and
low around her shapely head and
launch the Merode curl The style
still persists. as did. until few
days ago the legend that the dancer
was lIzbued not SO much with the
desire 20 create "a new fashion IN
couture. but to hide the fact that a
Jealous rival had slashed her ears.
or. some OF the stories had IL, that
discarded lover had bitten them of
r. was the heyday OF the "grandes
Vedettes" -- or the demimonde -
Lame dc Pougy. Emilienne d'AIen-
con and a half dozen others whose
gowns and horses and whims set
the pace for the entire cosmopoli-
tan crowd who brought their mill
lions and their appeties for the new
and startling to the city on the
Seine Kings and klnglets shared
honors in their train. with diamond
lei b.
from Pirsburg
cleo de Microbes beauty and her
undOubted photographic gifts.
which had brought her from the
music halls 20 the Paris opera stage
combined with the unhidden inter
eats which the Belgian sovereign
displayed in her. made the dancer a
veritable queen. II brought upon
@her also the bitter hate OF less fav-
ored aspirants 20 royal honOrs.
. Hence the tale Of the bIemish under
The fat curls.
8 Now comes this beauty Of an age
! that has vanished TO remind the
world thaf she is still here and that
Z her reputation is az much to her
z In the second decade OF the goth
tnentury re was her fame in the
: elosing years of the 18th. All be
ltause an American film producer
thought mt TO bestow the name cleo
on the heroine Of a life story
screen drama having So do with
the loves and adventures Of a Pa
fris'an dancer-"the Great Partisan
3 dancer" to be accurate.
= why my name is cleo and I am
The Great Partisan Dancer" ex-
ola med Mile de Nerode. and
strafrhtway she decided the public
must Poe warned that the film didn't
represent In the slightest particular
the intimate life az the old-time
mus. c-lrall favorite Certainly most
certainly King Leopold and King
Edward and King Whatshisnante
4-and Prince Fromth esOuth were her
friends and admirers but what OF
I tba-2 She appealed to the courts to
silence the wicked tongues that
q whispered tales OF scandal about her
friendships.
- While waiting for the court ma
chincrv TO set into operation. cleo
Do Merode allowed her present adj
dress TO he known 10 the principal
newspaper offices and selected the
most stunning OF her photographs
oF the days of triumph.
TT is horrible she walled TO her
visitors. '-that T. the most modest.
the most classical. the most dressed,
OF music-hau dancers. should be
represented as an exponent of the
lewj"
When one OF the reporters sug-
res-ed that perhaps after all there
- was some basis of truth I'm the film
representation. Mile. de Merode go
furious.
sYou remember" she exclaimed.
'the story about my not having any
ears thar 7 dressed my hair so as
70 cover MP the deficiency. Wei.
look here"
And. with Quick gesture. she
threw back her hair and displayed
$40 the gaze n The newspar ermen
(tke pink and pearlies that nature
gave her ana nobody had destroyed
or def0rmed.
= This victvrv over malehcent Cos
siDcrs was quickly followed by am
other when the presid ng Judge OF
the courr or referees granted her
nlea that the offending hlm be or
dered Withdrawn from the boulevard
theatcr where g. was being shown
unt.l a final decision Is handed down