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Thursday, 9 March 1905
I dined at the Chat Blanc, Aleister Crowley was there with dirty hands, immense rings, presumably dyed hair, a fancy waistcoat, a fur coat, and tennis shoes. Stanlaws was saying that the indecency of the Moulin Rouge etc. "wasn't 30 cents" by the side of Coney Island. I had heard this before. He described the rag-dance, which used to be danced everywhere but was lately forbidden by the police. It appears to be a combination of a waltz and the dance du ventre. He described a number of other Coney Island contrivances for the exhibition of women's legs and underclothes.
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