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Our Historical Archive
San Francisco Call Bulletin
August 7, 1904. This article is reprinted below. This article was particulary insteresting. Isadora Duncan is a famous person in San
Francisco history. In fact, there is a street named after her. When her brother married a Greek woman in Athens, this article was written
and placed in the society column of the paper.
Disclaimer: All newspaper articles are reprinted exactly as they appeared in the newspaper regardless of misspellings, grammar,
errors, or omissions.
Wedded Like the Greeks
Brother of Isadora Duncan Revives Old Custom.
They Wore Sandals and Exchanged Crowns at the Altar
ATHENS, Aug. 6. - The oldest brother of Isadora Duncan has become a subject of King George and at the same time adopted the habits and
clothes of the period of Alcibiades, Socrates and the rest. He can be seen daily in the street, his long hair full of flowers and green
leaves and his calves and feet severely naked, except for sandals held in place by pink ribbons, for Isadora's brother is aesthetic if
nothing else.
A week ago the sandal wearer took to his bosom a sandaled damsel, a native of Athens, very good-looking and in possession of a snug fortune.
The wedding was celebrated in one of the most ancient of Athens' churches. The bride was attired in a white antique gold-embrodered robe held
up at the hip, after the fashion of a well-known American female minstrel conglomeration, But, unlike the female minstrels, young Mrs. Duncan
wore no tights, only sandals. The ceremony was performed by a Greek priest, according to Orthodox rites, but there was a hitch. Orthodox rites
provide that the priest crown husband and wife with flower crowns, these being exchanged three times. Young Duncan had brought crowns of vine
leaves, "sacred to Dionysius," but the priest said Dionysius (in American Dennis) was not in the calendar and insisted that flower crowns be
sent for. Mr. Duncan objected, and there were some arguments, but the priest was obstinate and the flower crowns were finally procured. However,
Duncan triumphed in the end by introducing another classic festure of classic days. He waltzed with his bride three times around the altar, all
the wedding guests following suit.
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