Show A NERVY WOMAN DANCER She Does Her Act Inside a Case Containing Con-taining Restless Lions While New York is enjoying exhibitions exhibi-tions of the prowess of Herr Sandow the crowning point of which is the holding of a parlor grand piano on his chest with four men fiddling on the top of < the piano Paris is enjoying the performance of a serpentine dancer Mile Sandowa who does her dancing inside a cage containing ferocious looking look-ing lions The lions are made to lo I performing on their own account when to quote from the foreign contemporary suddenly all the lights are put out except ex-cept the limelight from the wings thrown directly on the cage and Mile Sandowa appears ilL her voluminous draperies which she handles most adroitly and gracefully The lions seemed very ill at ease however during the constant chang ingjof light and once the lioness made a savage spring at the intrepid danseuse dan-seuse who for the moment was pushed up against the bars The dance was stopped until the savage animal was induced to go back to her place and then immediately resumed with the utmost ut-most sang froid This at the end of the nineteenth century People speak with horror of the gladiatorial glad-iatorial contest in Roman arenas and yet it is to be doubted if they were any more brutal than this The ancient an-cient Romans at least selected men to face such dangers If one scratches deep enough it is to be feared that he will find as much of the barbarian under un-der the dress coat as under the toga New York Critic |