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[bluedeathray]

Yeah!

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Annie Oakley

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Miss America 1924

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Maud Allen, American citizen branded as a German spy after being caught seducing England's Prime Minister's wife. Fled London.

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[IdaBriggs]

1. A spy for seducing the Prime Minister's wife?

THAT should be a movie! I want more info on Maud Allen!

[bluedeathray]

3. As requested:

To say that she was "Hell on Wheels" doesn't even do her justice...

She was born in Canada as it turns out (1873-1880?), and died 2 days before I was born in 1956.

She moved to Berlin in 1895 (at 15?), to study piano. She became employed as a professional dancer, made her own costumes, was known for creative dance similar to Isadora Duncan.

In 1906, her version of Wilde's Salome (saw-low-may) became famous/notorious for her "Dance of the 7 Veils". What effect that piece had on this writers life...further deponent sayeth not. She performed over 250 times in 1908.

In 1918 the British MP Noel Pemberton Billing, in his own journal, Vigilante, published an article, "The Cult of the Clitoris" which implied that Allan, then appearing in her Vision of Salome, was a lesbian associate of German wartime conspirators. She sued Billing for defamation, acting as her own counsel. She lost the case, and various charges of obscenity, and sexually charged acts were leveled against her by the state.

She then moved to California, and became a dance instructor until her death.

"The Maud Allan Affair" by Russell James, and a stage play "Salomania" by Mark Jackson, premiered at the Aurora Theatre in Berkeley, CA in June, 2012. But no motion pictures, other than noted, have been created around this dynamo's life.

[IdaBriggs]

2. Links to All 4 (now 5) - Thanks, bluedeathray!

1 of 4: http://www.democraticunderground.com/125526549

2 of 4: http://www.democraticunderground.com/125526550

3 of 4: http://www.democraticunderground.com/125526552

4 of 4: http://www.democraticunderground.com/125526554

5 of 4: http://www.democraticunderground.com/125526555

ON EDIT: Fixed to show all five great links!