Famous Guerrero Dances Herself into a Madhouse

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Associated Press, May 1906 — Crazed by excessive dancing, the beautiful Spaniard Rosario Guerrero has been shut up in a madhouse in Vienna. Slightly shorter, and much slenderer and more supple than the famous Otero, Guerrero had also one of the most beautiful faces that ever came from Madrid.

Artists and sculpters raved over her, and when she left the French capital to go to Austria she was followed by three young noblemen, one of whom has since committed suicide. The other two men died in a duel.

Guerrero was in Vienna when King Alphonso visited that city. She stood on a balcony and threw 5,000 florins' worth of violets at the king. Now she is violently insane. She dances all the time, rising from her bed in the middle of the night to dance till she falls exhausted on the floor.

Guerrero made her American debut at the Lyric Theatre, New York, in November 1903, giving a tragic pantomime entitled “The Rose and the Dagger”.

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This article appeared in various forms in newspapers across the United State in May 1906, even making it to the front page of the May 18 th edition of Philadelphia's The Evening Telegraph . Other headlines included:

 

Rosa [sic] Guerrero Crazed by Excessive Dancing
Dainty Spanish Danseuse Is Confined in Vienna, Violently Insane

(Boston Herald)

Beautiful Dancer Who Becomes Insane
Famous Spanish Dancer Sent to the Madhouse in Vienna

“Crazed by excessive dancing, she gives herself up to the whirling maze of steps until she falls exhausted to the floor.”

(Syracuse [NY] Standard)