User talk:Mike McClure

Hi Mike, and welcome! As far as the Little Egypt (dancer) page, yes there are a lot of dancers (I've actually met a couple) who use the stage name of Fatima, and I think I remember hearing about the one you're talking about, but we don't have an article on her yet. It would be good if we could have one, and link it from the Fatima disambiguation page. But Fatima was a pseudonym of Spyropoulos, and that deserves mention in her article (although possibly not linked to Fatima).

I seem to be rambling; welcome again, the knack for editing here comes quickly. Let me know if you have any questions. - Hephaestos|§ 02:22, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

• And a 2nd welcome. I seem Hephaestos has preceeded me. I too have read that Little Egypt was also one of the many "Fatima"s. (Which is why I had rephrased the sentence...) A strange tribute to the Prophet's daughter, I suppose! Don't worry too much if changes (yours, mine, theirs...) get reverted. We're all just trying to improve the article, after all! - Nunh-huh 02:37, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks to both of you. The thing is there isn't one Little Egypt but two. Fahred Mahzar that danced at the Chicago World's Fair, and Ashea Wabe that danced at the Seeley dinner. Donna Carlton makes two points in her book. First that there was no dancer billed as Little Egypt at the Chicago Fair and that the photographs taken of Little Egypt are probably Ashea Wabe. I have seen very little writen on Fahred and would like to know where you read that she danced as Fatima. During this period Fatima was a Algerian Jewish dancer named Rachel Bent-Eny.Do either of you live in New York City? The photographs of Little Egypt were taken by Benjamin Falk (1853-1925)and his records are at the New York Public Library. The answer to who the woman in the photograph is should be in those records.