Little Egypt (dancer)
Little Egypt was the stage name for three popular belly dancers. They had so many imitators, the name became synonymous with belly dancers generally.
Farida Mazar Spyropoulos, (c. 1871, Syria - April 5, 1937, Chicago, Illinois), also performing under the stage name Fatima, appeared at the "Street in Cairo" exhibition on the Midway at the World's Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893.
Ashea Wabe (born Catherine Devine (1871, Montreal, Canada - January 3, 1908, New York City) danced at the Seeley banquet in New York in 1896, enjoying a fleeting succès de scandale.
Fatima Djemille (died March 14, 1921) appeared at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
Read more about Little Egypt (dancer): Farida Mazar Spyropoulos, Ashea Wabe, Fatima Djamile
Famous quotes containing the word egypt:
“It is evident, from their method of propagation, that a couple of cats, in fifty years, would stock a whole kingdom; and if that religious veneration were still paid them, it would, in twenty more, not only be easier in Egypt to find a god than a man, which Petronius says was the case in some parts of Italy; but the gods must at last entirely starve the men, and leave themselves neither priests nor votaries remaining.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)