- Accused by both Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis of stealing their dances.
- Changed her name from Durrant to escape from her brother's notoriety; Theodore Durrant was found guilty and executed for murdering two women in San Francisco in 1898.
- A suffragette supporter gave Allan's name (as an alias) on arrest by a suffragette arrested near Stirling, Scotland for an attack on Prime Minister Asquith.
- She also gave concerts in the homes of affluent people living in San Francisco like Adolph Sutro. Sutro was rumoured to be her grandfather and her mother's biological father, there is sufficient evidence to assume this to be true as the family had little money.
- Allan blamed herself for her brother's death because she believed if she hadn't left him, he wouldn't have committed the murders.[3] She always maintained that her brother was innocent, and he died unnecessarily. His death stayed with Allan for many years after, and she and her mother Isabella scattered his ashes around Europe to mourn his loss.
- In 1909, Allan decided that Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia were her next targets. Many reviews compared her to Isadora Duncan and criticized her lack of poise in comparison to Duncan's work. The reviews highlighted her passion and efforts, but the Russian audience craved more professionalism and cleanness in movement. Some of her most notable guests were the Czar and Czarina of Russia.
- She danced to Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Bach, Schumann, Chopin, Schubert, and Debussy. Allan toured this performance throughout Europe and traveled to cities like Liège, Brussels, Berlin, Leipzig, and Cologne over the next 5 years. These five years were crucial for solidifying Allan's career change from pianist to dancer and legitimating her talents among the ranks of Isadora Duncan and Ruth St. Denis.
- Between 1912 to 1915 she travelled to South Africa, India, the Far East, and Australasia performing numbers in her existing repertoire. Her performances were generally well received by audiences and critics, but the stark cultural differences and religious intolerance for indecency caused some outroar in the press.
- Allan's piano teacher, Eugene Bonelli, director of the San Francisco Grand Academy of Music, recommended that she continue her studies in Berlin, Germany at the Hochschule fur Musik. Even though her family was financially strained, her mother pushed for her to go to Europe to continue her education.
- She was a Canadian dancer, chiefly noted for her Dance of the Seven Veils. In World War I, she faced accusations of being a lesbian spy, for which she sued unsuccessfully for libel.
- At the end of 1915 she returned to the United States to stay with her parents who were living in Los Angeles. It was here that she appeared in the silent movie The Rug Maker's Daughter, where she performed excerpts of The Vision of Salome on screen.
- Maud attended Lincoln High School and then the Cogswell Technical Institute where she took courses in wood carving and sculpture. During this time Allan was still practicing and teaching piano.
- As a young person, Allan loved piano and was very musically gifted. Her teacher was Miss Lichenstein, a well-known piano teacher in Toronto and Montreal at the time.
- She made her stage debut in Vienna, Austria on November 24, 1903, at the age of 30.
- Reviews were generally critical of her dancing, saying not much of it adds to the existing culture that Isadora Duncan had created. It was evident that Allan was not a formally trained dancer from reading the reviews of The Vision of Salome. However, the part of the twenty-minute performance that really intrigued viewers was the shock value. Allan danced topless; her body was only covered by intricate jewellery. She made the decision to dance topless because she believed that her body was her instrument, and no other artists cover their instruments while they created.
- In 1887, her mother, brother and herself moved to San Francisco, California, to meet their father who had lived there for 3 years before, establishing a life for the family.
- She began working in collaboration with Claude Debussy in 1911 while continuing to perform in London. She commissioned Debussy to make the music for a new show she had created called Khamma to replace The Vision of Salome in her act. The story focuses on an Egyptian dancing girl, Khamma, who gave herself as a sacrifice to the god Amun-Re. Khamma was much more ambitious than The Vision of Salome because Allan included other dancers all choreographed by her, a full symphony, and possibly singers.
- Allan began her dance career after meeting Ferruccio Busoni, the director of the Meister-Schule in Weimar, Germany where she studied piano after she finished studying in Berlin. Allegedly, the first time Allan danced was in front of Busoni and he became enthralled with her performance requesting that she stop pursuing piano and pursue dance instead. One of Busoni's contemporaries was Marcel Remy who became her agent, manager, and composer.
- In 1910 Allan began touring the United States in Boston. A dancer by the name of Gertrude Hoffman had been sent to study Allan's show in London and perform it in New York six weeks before Allan arrived to tour in the states. Many theatres had banned Allan's Vision of Salome performance before she travelled to the United States because of Hoffman's performance of the dance. This ended up working in favour of Allan because it made people wonder why a performance was being banned, which caused more people to attend her shows where she was allowed to perform. The New York Times coined this national intrigue,"Salomania", which propelled Allan into international stardom. Her tour travelled to New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Kansas City, San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Sacramento, Stockton, San Jose, Rochester, and San Diego.
- A significant career move came when she performed The Vision of Salome in London in 1908 where the depiction of biblical characters on stage was illegal. She began this "conquest of London" by performing a two-week residency at the Palace Theatre where her performance ended with The Vision of Salome. These performances made her an overnight sensation in the region and pushed her into the upper echelon of society in England. She continued performing in London for 18 months and performed The Vision of Salome 250 times.
- Only six weeks after Allan went to pursue her career in Germany, her brother committed what was known as the crime of the century. Her brother Theodore was charged and convicted of the murders of two young women at Emmanuel Baptist Church. Allan was unable to say goodbye to her brother because he was hanged on January 7, 1898, at San Quentin Prison while she was still living in Berlin.
- A realistic wax sculpted head of John the Baptist sat at the corner of the stage for much of the performance of The Vision of Salome, often terrifying viewers. Allan also used the severed head as a prop towards the end of the performance, and it received a lot of attention in the media for being gruesome and absurd. This media attention allowed the news of Allan's performance of the Dance of the Seven Veils to travel across Europe and for her to tour places across Europe including Paris, Prague, Budapest, Munich, Bohemia, and Leipzig.
- In 1942, she abandoned the West Wing School of Dancing after it sustained bomb damage and she became a volunteer ambulance driver for the Red Cross.
- She started her own Concert Agency, plus the Maude Allen Symphony Orchestra ( With dancers.) While staring in ( Wilde's) Salome, Allen sues Noel Pimberton Billing in a liable case for slander, thus starting her 'Black Book Case' which Billing would later end up ruining her career, as she could not break the chains of being a sister to a murderer and ( Wicked) Salome dancer. Her case failed and she would be billed as a lewd, unchaste and an immoral woman by the press ( Which she was not.).
- Allan never disclosed her precise sexual orientation due to societal norms, but there is sufficient evidence to conclude that she was involved with women throughout her life, most notably Margot Asquith and Verna Aldrich. Asquith was married to Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1908-1916. Margot Asquith paid for Allan's apartment overlooking Regent's Park for twenty years from 1910 onward. Her relationship with Allan solidified the view of many upper-class socialites in London that she was sexually divergent. After Herbert's death in 1928, Margot stopped paying for Allan's apartment and Allan began an affair with her secretary, Aldrich.
- In 1943 Allan relocated to Los Angeles and spent 13 years working as a draughtswoman at Macdonald Aircraft in Santa Monica.
- She died in a nursing home.
- Her performance of Oscar Wilde's Salome prompted British MP Noel Pemberton Billing to publish an article called "The Cult of the Clitoris" in his own journal Vigilante. The article accused Allan of being a lesbian associate of German wartime conspirators. Even though same-sex relationships between women were never illegal in England, they were considered to be deplorable throughout society. Billing speculated that many attendees in the "Black Book", where the names of applicants were recorded, were homosexuals who occupied positions of high status in society. He believed that people who were included in this book were being blackmailed by the German government for being gay, and they were gathering information about British high society in exchange for Germans keeping their sexuality secret.
- Verna Aldrich was Allan's secretary when she was working in London at the West Wing School of Dance, and she lived with Allan for ten years at her Regent's Park apartment. Aldrich was twenty years younger than Allan which allowed Allan to emotionally abuse Aldrich with her demands and paranoia. In 1930, Aldrich received a marriage proposal from a widowed man which led to Allan throwing a tantrum, threatening to expose Aldrich as a lesbian and then commit suicide.
- In 1930-1942, Allen opened the West Wing School of Dance for slum children to learn dance in N.Y. And in 1937 opens the West Wing School of Art in London for underprivileged kids.
- Maud Allen Allen sued British MP Noel Pemberton Billing for libel based on the following: the act of publishing a defamatory article about Allan and Grien, and the act of including obscenities within the article. The trial became a national news story and lasted five to six days.[8] Billings represented himself and called on high profile defence witnesses, including Eileen Villiers-Stewart, who was his mistress.[8] He also introduced evidence of Allan's insanity through exhibits highlighting her brother Theo's murder trial and subsequent execution. He justified that by suggesting that Allan's insanity was hereditary. Allan stated that she knew little about Salome, but thought that Oscar Wilde was a great artist. The judge was not concerned with the libel suit as much as he was concerned with how Wilde's play ended up being performed in the first place. The jury found Billing not guilty. The case caused intense public scrutiny of the play, Oscar Wilde, and Maud Allan herself. The trial, and the public outcry against Allan, contributed, among other factors, to the demise of her career in Europe.
- She began another North American tour in 1916 which led to a disaster. She appointed her friend and manager Charles Macmillen as the head of the Maud Allan Concert Agency in New York to manage the second North American tour. She hired her own orchestra and a group of dancers to make this tour much more elaborate than the previous one. Allan began this tour on September 28, 1916, in Albany and then made her way up into Canada.[7] Despite this, the tour collapsed due to lack of funds. She completed her second tour in North America in April 1917 by travelling to New York and performing at the Palace Theatre for two weeks. The second week featured the Vision of Salome which was critically dismissed and never performed again.
- In 1936, she performed publicly for the last time in Los Angeles at the Redlands Community Music Association.
- Maude was an avid classic Greek dancer, who often danced barefoot in a loose Greek Gown.
- She returned to London in 1918 and took the lead role of Salome in Jack Grien's production of Oscar Wilde's Salome. Grien's rendition of the play was not a public performance and required patrons to apply to attend the performance to get around the law that Biblical characters could not be portrayed in art.
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