[Sca-cooks] OOP OT - Little Egypt

[Decker, Terry D.]

Fahrida Mahszar did a nude table dance for Barnum Seeley, New York playboy
and grandson of the deceased P.T. Barnum, during a private party at Louis
Sherry's in 1896.  The tale of her doing the hootchy-kootchy (AKA the danse
du ventre) at the 1893 Columbian Exhibition is apochryphal.

If you are really interested, you might try Donna Carlton's "Looking for
Little Egypt."

Bear

> Yeah, I was thinking of the dancer, who was involved, IIRC, in all
> manner of late nineteenth-century scandal, but probably fairly tame
> by modern standards. (Britney Spears would probably have been burnt
> at the stake, just to show these people weren't all bad.) I STR there
> being some business association between Little Egypt and P.T. Barnum,
> but can find no evidence of it on the Web. Such as it is, as a
> resource...
>
> Adamantius
>