Another article with Jeanne Hallee

New York Branch Library News
Volume I
January to December, 1914

Fairy Tales for Grown-up Readers
“Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here. –The Preface to “The Book of Wonder,” by Lord Dunsany.

The monk and the dancer, by Arthur Cosslett Smith

“Monsieur,” he said, “it seems that your friend is famous. She dances at the Folies-Bergeres. She has an apartment on the avenue Friedland. Each fine day she drives a bay cob and a morning cart in the Bois. She drinks two glasses of warm milk at the Pre’ Catelan, and lunches at the Madrid. Her appetite is good. In the afternoon she drives in a Victoria or a brougham, according to the weather. Her servants are English. They wear dark green and no rosettes. They are correctly dressed and do not attempt to speak French. Her brougham horses were given her by an English milord. They are very taking, but the nigh one is unsound. After she has danced in the evening she has supper at Paillard’s. She dances at half-past nine. Her maid is a Frenchwoman, named Nanette. On Tuesdays and Saturdays madame has a masseuse for an hour. On Friday she confesses at the Madeleine. Her costumes for the stage are made in Madrid, those for the carriage and the house she procures from Raudnitz and Jeanne Hallee, and her morning gowns are sent to her from London. Hellstern makes her slippers and he tries them on four times. Next winter she dances in St. Petersburg, and in the spring she goes to America. At the Folies-Bergeres she receives two thousand francs each night and half the gross receptis of each Sunday. She keeps an account at the Credit Lyonnais. Monsieur Vallon makes you his compliments and regrets that he cannot give you more definite information.”