The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1866-10-03
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near, the public desire for amusement
seems to intensity. Already, the St
Charles, the Academy and the Olympic
! are open, and the Varieties and the ole
Orleans will follow suit early mex
week. The St. Charles is now occu'
pied by troupe Of niger minstrels
who play nightly to beggarly account
of empty boxes. The truth is, thai
entertainments of this kind must moi
be confined altogether to male perform
ers-there must be fair proportion Of
good looking sirens to attract the mas.
culines, or the performance is a deal
failure. The Academy has very goot
circus, composed mostly of Italians and
Spaniards, and is really worth the
price of admission and the spending Of
an hour or two there. Chiarini, the
head man, has two horses under most
admirable control, and it is surprising
to see how implicitly they obey his al
most imperceptible directions. The
most curious of the performers are two
young Cuban blacks, q girl and boy,
about Is. The boy appears, standing
on two bare backed ponies, driving two
more ahead of him. The reins act as
a support to him, and it is wonderful
to see the ponies and mig leap hurdles,
he dressed like an English jockey, and
bearing striking likeness to good
sized balloon. The girl is very SYM
metrical in form, and really looks well
in the glittering tinsel of the arena,
with sparkling tiara on her head.
Her skirts come midway down her
thigh, leaving her knees, and goodly
portion of the leg, both above and be-
low, naked, her ebon skin forming a
comical contrast with her yellow bus
kins, and the mysterious folds of snowy
muslin beneath her petticoats. But
alas! strip majesty of its externals-
and what is itq jest. The night I at
tended, the girl took a tumble, luckily
a hurtless one; but the gaudy crown
dropped off her head, exposing the fea-
lures of the congo, the slanting fore
head, the immense developement be-
hind the ears, the scant kinky wool, in
all their native hideousness.
The Olympic | have not been to, bui
presume Mrs. Howard Watkins is still
singing, or attempting to sing, as in
long past days, and playing the juven-
lie coquette to the intense admiration
of young gents from the remote inter
ior. We are to have the ballet here on
a grand scale, the coming winter; and
if it be anything like what it is des.
cribed to be at the North and in Eu-
rope, we are to see the human form d.
vine in about the same lively and I'M
trammelled costume as that worn by
the first pair before the arrival of Thad
Stevens great ancestor in the garden Of
Eden. If women in every day life will
expose their charms to the public eye
what can the poor fgurantes of the
stage do but out herod them! If the
wife and daughters Of Mr.. Blank show
the quality Of their garters to the bucks
on the corners of Canal and Bourbon
under pretence of gazing at the pretty
things in the shopwindows, the poor
theatre girls must go still higher il
their Developments in order to attract
the blase men of leisure and means tt
their performances. Live and let live
is the motto of mankind all over the
world and the poor woman who is OBJ
liged to expose her person on the stage
as means of gaining her livelihood
is hardly SO much to blame, as the min
ion of wealth and idleness, whom 6
mere plurient thirst for admiration i'm.
pels to the indecent and vulgar disclo.
sure of her limbs and bosom.
l saw the members of the French
company that are engaged at the Old
Orleans, on their arrival here last Sun.
day, and a more woe begone, bedraz.
zled and ffowsy set it has been rarely
my lot to witness. The day was a wei
and disagreeable one, and the spirits O
the men and women seemed to be al
limp as the dresses they wore, as they
loitered lazily along on their way from
the Steamship landing in front of Jack
son square.
AT the New Opera House we have ev.
cry promise of an excellent season.
Alfalfa, the impresario, is man Of en-
ergy and grand ideas, and he has beer
very literally encouraged with solid
assistance by our weather. citizens.
am not sure, but think the Opera
House will open shortly with the Ital.
ian troupe that played here last winter
some of whom are excellent perform.
ers. The permanent French company
arrived in New York several days age
ON the Vile de Paris, the same steame,
which brought our peerless Beauregard
They were to remain in Gotham mere.
ly long enough to transfer their bag
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