Show Ida fuller Tens Idis of Serpentine Dance Ida Fuller who comes to the tho Orpheum Or Orpheum today to ar tolls tells in an interesting pway way of how sho came come to develop the original serpentine serpentino dance and an bring it to Its present perfection in her offer offering ing In La Lay She Rays nays BaysIn I In 1892 1 J improved upon the he tl ser serpentine serpentine I Ipen I Ian pen lint costume which was originally an shaped dress reaching only front from the waist I made ma e a cos costume 1 fume turne with much greater fullness ex extending extending tending from the tho neck to the floor This I found impossible Imp to manipulate late into gracefully Jl with the hands bands andI and i I f then conceived the idea Id a of fasten 24 9 4 Inches Ill length h n h In each of the costume c st une Holding wands Jn In my city m hands I found I could produce movements much larger and an more varied railed in effect This method was ver very ery soon goon adopted by all serpentine serpentine serpentine tine dancers and remains in use to the th present t day dav davIn In not nol satisfied with the ef effect effect feel of o what I considered a smal cos costume cO tume I made mado ono twelve feet In length wands five fhe feet long with which I was able nbc to produce aston astonishing astonIshing movements and by b raising my m wands high above my mr head and whirl whirling whirlIng ing lug around very cry fast the costume took the shape of a huge o lily Illy I r then named this the Lily Dance In tho the same year rear while rehearsing in Paris I brought to tho the theater soy sev several SO eral pieces of silk material to try un under under der tier the electric lights and quite acci accidentally dentally discovered red that an orange tie tissue sue wred in a vory ory or strong white light produced the effect of lire firc I Imade Imade Imade made a costume of o anti and originated a dance lance which I christened the Dance Danco I Sometime later l ler while dancing on ona ona a stage in open air millions of elec electric electric I light insects were attracted to me meby meb I by hr b the tho lights which gave avo the effect of fire flying from my costume I then conceived tho Idea of releasing quantities quantities ties t s df of f orange confetti con feW in III a current of air produced by U a blower placed and I had hada a n very err realistic n spark effect The fol following following following I lowing year car cal I Columbia New w York City and asked the r to show me two chem chemicals which whoa when wit en placed near each I Iother other produced the effect of of smoke I These I had confined in bottles and with a small bellows air was con conveyed conveyed from rom one chemical to the tho other ing a n line flue smoke effect very harmless and which I have used up to the thc present time in my m fire dance Not satisfied with the effect effot t of sim simply simply ply a burning costume I J wished to find a n way of producing a fire effect which could bo ho used use for lor spectacular purposes where a fire fio rene Konc one was re 10 required required and an not until 1900 did I suc sue succeed succeed coed in perfecting this Idea It way way very veT simple and consisted con I of strew stream streamers st ea ers of the same orange silk UD I In my fire costume which I attached attach d toa to toa toa a wire screen They The were carried up and kept in motion and by electric lights I secured d patents for this his fire effect in America Ger Gor Germany Gormany many England and my first royalty received for this Invention was paid mo me bj by Sir Henry Honry Irving who used the fire effect In the production of Dante Then my troubles to protect my m pat patent patent ent eat began In 1903 I brought suit for Infringement against the proprietors tors of the Academy of Music in NewYork New Now NewYork York City CIt where a fire Ore scone was in introduced introduCed ed in the tho th play pia Ninety and Nine NIue A temporary injunction was granted and the suit was carried on for fol more moro than four years when it itI was decided in my fa favor or and I was awarded substantial damages I In the meantime were vere I Keeping mo roo busy In Germany and I r Iwon I Iwon won five fie suits for infringement in that 1 country Tho The last one was against no noless noless less a personage than tho the emperor of or Germany Ills His majesty majest owns the Royal Opera house of Berlin and while I was dancing In that theater I with the tM Monte Carlo Opera company com corn pany piny the stage manager studied the effect and when I wont went awa away h he pro produced produced It in several ras proceedings against tho the Gorman em emperor emperor emperor won my mj suit ard eventually succeeded in ln Helling selling them the tho right to produce pro uce my m fire lire effect In all nil tho the Royal Opera houses of or Germany The use of ot tho the blowers under underneath underneath neath the stage used In my m fire dance trave the ine the idea of or dancing with a volt roll of 30 feet teet square which when put IGl In motion by the tho air all current cur current rent and nd illuminated with colored fig lights Ii t produced a vcr ver very beautiful cloudlike c dud effect This I named my Veil Dance Danco and later with the aid of r stereopticon a I projected project ll clouds rain etc upon tho the A veil oil which suggested Tho The Spirit of tho tiro Storm my favorite dance |