Show acers OP OF de DANCING tho 0 o skirt dance performers lot is C net alva always y z a c ros ecsy ey one ilia iho popular dancer or rather artist who does docs the rii rainbow iiii ow act the split or the latest freric french h solo in tho the terpsichorean line is a complex piece of machinery y which requires a ta great reat deal of care she has to be oiled up and rubbed down 7 plastered over and heated heated to the th proper temperature and then cooled coole d off of again fagain until the human prin principles cl on which she was originally constructed ire are entirely lost eight of even the vigorous constitutionals constitution als an and scientific training of the champion pugilist fail to convey an idea of the physical education that the average skirt kirt dancer gets first of all she has to acquire an almost abnor abnormal nial development of the muscular organization in order to do the laborious dancing that thai constitutes atutes her share in entertaining and edifying the tub bublic lic the skirt dancer has most of the ils ills to which flesh is heirty heir to combat with perhaps the most common of other her fitful ashes and ailments is a general derangement 1 of the breathing in apparatus any comfortably situated person who views her spasmodic action from the audience cn can realize why tho writhing gasping convulsive celebrity should be ba the most short winded creature on oil earth it r cems a marvel that some odthe of the cords dont doat snap anti and the whole tension suddenly give way way arid and let her down into iu an inartistic heap in the middle of the stage 1 but to get geta a comprehensive view view of her ber collapse when she does collapse it is ia necessary emeary to taken take a peep behind the curtain at the eckstat ic nio moment ment when the apfl audience ence sees the laa bow the farewell rewell fj wave ve of the hand baud or retiring colv convulsion aaion wa of the hip bip joint at that same moment the overexerted breathless and panting artis artigu falle exhausted into the arms of a faithful attendant who bears tier her away to a bottle of brandy brandv and one of horse liniment flavored with turpentine Some S boys is then vigorously applied and restoratives restora tives arc used in A start startling lino manner manner everything known to science in the and invigorating line is administered to the su sufferer feerer and her recover recovery is awaited with a p painful expression by all con cerneil berned when a dancer can call afford the luxury of more than one attendant o oae ae is assigned to on 0 o over the weary area of arms and leys leas with hors horse e liniment while the t others enjoy tile the exciting 11 occupations of readjusting her berv wig rig fanning her in front behind and on nil all sides and then depositing her remains on some piece of stal stace e scenery until the audience his has finiA finished hed applauding t these are the e fimple arid and essentially few anine parts of tran ining which are common not only to dancers but to the lie whole race of tragedienne new york recorder Un corder |