Hundred pilgrims depart Paris for Jerusalem in two weeks
A diverse crowd travels in a special train toward Jerusalem led by Cardinal Langenieux with Liege bishop and other prelates. The item moves through various curiosities from dog meat to moon lore, a California bookcase suit, constitutional reading tests, and a Boston reform idea of women exchanging country and city visits.
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Paris
Jerusalem
Cardinal Langenieux
Liege
Boston
Julis Ward Howe
Co-operative
Cairo at Worlds Fair Midway Portrait of Turkish Egyptian Village
Chicago correspondence notes a Nile region group at the World's Fair midway. Egyptians from Cairo form a reproduced Cairo street with mosques minaret and theatre. They include 148 men and women, traders, dancers, musicians, and a famed sword swallower. A camel troupe, native shops, and a grand Turkish bazaar promise vivid Oriental splendor.
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Chicago
World's Fair Grounds
Midway Plaisance
The
Nile
Cairo
Fair Grounds
America
Ali Ali Arab
Khadel Nada
Egypt
Sayed Mehren Effendi
Biul el Nour
Abdone Magid Homosini
Midway
Misa Rehan
Montana
Achmat
Yankee
Povo
Turkey
Constantinople
Jerusalem
Duma@eds
The Skirt Dances of New York’s Stage History
A New York correspondence reviews the evolution of stage dancing from ancient Greek Terpsichore to the modern skirt and exotic dances. It contrasts traditional decorum with tights and draped costumes, praises Letty Lind and Loie Fuller, and notes the French quadrille’s impropriety and the rise of the American Spanish inspired dance by Amelia Glover.
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New York
Terpsichore
Bacchus
France
Letty Lind Shenopng
Letty Lind
Loie Fuller
Amelia Glover
Carmencita
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Marble Hill Press
Munich
Bostox
Jackson Park
Lake Shore Drive
Southside
South
Mason's
Dixon
Oakland
Cal
State of
California
Great White City
Germany
Catro
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