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Show u Loio Fuller's Latest Dance. w From Paris comes a description of Q- Lole Fuller's latest sensation, called the w "Radium Dances." The name is not, as might be Imagined, a fanciful one. No Q, actual salt of radium is manipulated in n the production of her new clfects, but she uses substances very nearly akin ,3 to radium. These aro certain fiuores- J cent salts, extracted from the residue H; u of pitchblende, Avhcnce the Curies ob- A talned radium. J The spectacle itself is weird and fan- ij tastic in the extreme. The guests asked 3 by IxIe Fuller to witness the perforrn- J ance, which has not yet been given in y public, are marshaled at one end of a J gallery, with all lights put out. Through J a slit in the curtains opposite a green glow Ik seen. Suddenly an appariatlon comeB into view. It Is a vague form, onlj distinguished by the hundreds of tiny glow worms which It seems to carry on Its llowing raiment. The tissue tis-sue of twinkling stars fioats about, circles, cir-cles, sweeps along the floor, is wafted up until It is shaped into a sort of great luminous vase. The dancer's face Is never seen; her form Is vaguely divined when outlined by the glowing lights. The apparition vanishes, to be followed fol-lowed by another more weird still. Above an invisible head shines a bluish halo, which Is merely one great patch of the same ghostly light. The apparition ap-parition slowly moves to a solemn rhythm, seems to invoke heaven, the halo being thrown backward when the head Is, as you conclude, uplifted, and, finally, the robe of light sinks onto the floor, when you infer that the figure kneels. The second ghost vanishing, a third j appears, a glowing moth, with shining antennae a foot long, eyes which arc globes of light and wings six feet high, glittering with luminous scrolls In all colors. The moth flutters round and round the studio, then out of sight, but reappears Instantly, accompanied by a smaller, glowing, white butterfly, which beats Its wings over the luminous in- , sect's head. Having an opportunity of examining the dancer's dresses, the spectators find that they are made of a peculiar kind of silk, completely Impregnated Im-pregnated with ' certain .lluoresccnt salts. In darknoss only the portions of mnterlal thus rendered luminous are visible. |