“In passing I had noticed a small stage on which six guitar players were seated. It was too tempting… Soon the guitars introduced the dancer, who leaped forward, castanets in her fingers. I did not regret my evening. Her talent, grace and beauty would have conquered Paris at once.”

Alice Guy, The Memoirs of Alice Guy Blaché, a cura di Anthony Slide, Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, 1981, p. 51