Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-02 | Page 11 | Gloria Swanson Learning Sensational Apache Dance

Gloria Swanson Learning Sensational asI Apache Dance Gloria Swanson does an Apache dance in her newest Paramount picture pic plo ture The HumminG Bird which will be a revelation to hr her r many followers For weeks she has been practising he he dance creation creation creation crea crea- tion with Aurelio Aurello Coccia who In Introduced Introduced introduced In- In the dance in this country and who for the last lat ten years has been dancing It on variety variety vari van ety stages throughout the United St States The style manner and music for forthe forthe the dance was brought direct from Paris by Coccia fourteen years ago when Apache dances were all the rage in this country The steps are th the same that Coccia saw and learned learne-d on many visits to the Paris underworld where vh re such queens of Apaches Apache as Casque DOr D'Or Chiffon Chiffon- ette otte arid Pepe held sway The Apache dance is IR cruel fierce and add wild explained Coccia Many people believe that it I has been ex exaggerated exaggerated ex- ex by dancers but that is not so BO One night in Paris while making the rounds of or the cafes In Inthe Inthe inthe the Montmartre district in search of color for tor my dance I was fortunate fortunate for for- enough to wl witness ness a little triangle drama between two Apache men and girl One of or the Apaches seeing the woman with his rival picked up a bottle and smashed it to fragments on the floor He tl deliberately de tie- cut his hand with a piece of the h glass advanced to the defiant defiant deti- deti ant girl seized her with his bloody hands and began to dance to the the- strains of the notorious Mattis- Mattis chiche It was wasa a fascinating sight In staging the dance in In America Mr r CoccIa Cocca substituted the he music of Offenbach's Papillon for the more common melody and made a sensation sensation sensa sensa- tion with the dance on the Keith time He lIt will do a portion of this dance with Miss Swanson In the picture