Miss Maud Allen - Quivering Arms and Finger Tips
Maud Allan (1873-1956) was a pianist-turned-actor, dancer and choreographer who is remembered for her "famously impressionistic mood settings". Her quivering arms and fingertips were in part a psychosomatic reaction to a scandal surrounding her brother Theodore Durrant, hanged in 1898 for the sensational murder of two women in San Francisco. Allan never recuperated from the trauma of this event which had an effect on her for the rest of her life
Picture No
11046251
Media ID
46323980
Size
5592px x 3591px
(1.4MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Rotary postcard
Date
1908
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