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SUDANESE DANCING TROUPE GIVING EXHIBITION OF THEIR ART
| Gently at first, and then with ever-increasing speed, the dancers glide over the hot sand to the accompaniment of a low sing-song chant and the weird strains of a primitive native lyre. Youth and grace are combined in the figure of the unveiled dancer, and this young Salome is fully aware that her charms have supremacy over those of the other and older women of the troupe |
FAIRY-FOOTED SIRENS OF THE DESERT DANCE THE SWORD DANCE
| A two-edged sword is not an ideal asset to graceful dancing, but the hand here seen wielding this dangerous weapon, now in softly swinging half-circles and then in fierce, far-reaching lunge-like movements — in perfect accord with the rhythmical cadence of the dance, is sure and steady, and knows to the full the significance of a naked sword blade |