In the course of reading an item on Salon today with the arresting title, "Why I Can't Stand White Belly Dancers" ( http://www.salon.com/2014/03/04/why_i_cant_stand_white_belly_dancers/), this sentence caught my eye: "(fun trivia: Mark Twain made a short film of a belly dancer at the 1893 fair)." This was a new one to me. Although he was in Chicago during the Fair, I don't think Twain had a chance to visit, as he was ill (if my recollection is correct). As for the story that he filmed Little Egypt--I'd be curious to learn the source of that myth. Another source--a book titled "Looking for Little Egypt," which is excerpted at http://www.allaboutbellydance.com/book.html --claims that Little Egypt "supposedly caused Mark Twain to suffer a coronary and starred in one of the first motion pictures, filmed at the fairgrounds by Mark Twain himself." Wikipedia repeats the story as well and cites a 1965 documentary titled The Love Goddesses as its source. Has anybody ever heard this story before? Jim Edstrom