Leopold Carl Müller, Austrian
“Okay, First Word! Sounds Like…’Massage?,'” 1882
Oil on canvas
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here (archived if necessary), here (Google translated), here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, and here (Google translated, click ADB under name), perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated German Wikipedia page may have more).
/// Queried, “Why are you such a big fan, sir?”
then An almée’s admirers each answer:
“She can rhythmically make
her firm abdomen shake.”
An Egyptian (legit) Belly Dancer.
/// “Little Egypt” was roundly adored
(despite rumors that sometimes she’d whored).
Not Egyptian, but pieced,
from the whole Middle East,
different moves into one smorgasbord.
/// Mark Twain saw “Little Egypt” dance bare
at the famous Chicago World’s Fair.
She could gyrate her pelvis,
(said the song sung by Elvis).
Hoochee-Coochee made all the men stare.