The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-11-23
NEWS OF THE CITY.
MATINEE DAY.
THE Scene on Canal Street and u Hint
to Theatre Managers

The natinee season fairly got in yesterday.
no fewer tb an twenty We hundred ladies and
misses attending the matineea at the Grand
Opera House and Academy Of Music. The day
was brlght and halmy the most beautiful day
M the spring mat ennl enough to justify tho
gentle eek to wear their winter dresses and
[bonnota, and the consequence wn'.ihat after
$oclock. whit with tho large nun,bor 81 'dlNH
who were out ehopping. heHiiaa those Who hhi
been to see Lotta and The Bankers Daughter
Canal street fairly awArmea wi b beautiful faces
and graceful forma. like 40 many brilliant bnrd
Butterflies that had burst ont " iholr noeoona.
The dry Hooda millinery md glove Rt res. Tho
toy shups, were filled with customers. and the
harvest reaped by the retnil aiorakaepers must
have been gratifying indeed when the cash
sales books we're balanced at night
The apectagle on our great tho"oughfara waa
! tru,y jpspirting aud Il was not alone the
cigarette smokers who stood at tho street cor
ners to sae the unrolling OF the beautiful PIANO
rama among which rosy. checked md .untily-
dressed children eame in fnr u LARGE share Of
the efrect-but the more eorinua and aordih
Babbaaea and WssthrNak not ~ tr,ak ~ me
"a. w. phtppa-ni New nflnana HAD dfnppad ~
upon the acena ~ sufficient numbers ~ lu4tity
the belief that their presence ihnra was not
purely accidental.
Chronic croakera aFninat hard tunes must
Ing the extravaganza ~ women, Whose roor
husbands have 10 foot the bills tor ths toicta Of
their better halves. receiving, however, no
sympathy from those who took in the sight
from purely idealisttc point of view, regard
less OF the money value q brlcR and with the
sole thought that the aantifnl has no honnda-
rles. and that tho privilege Il gazing upon
pretty faces or fairy forms, Ia priceless-and
costs nothing.
The turnout proved aomethng besides, that
our opera seaRnn. which begins On Monday
next AT the French 0nera House. will certainly
be brilliant LII the quality nt iiR nu'i"n ea-tar
we hear from the IN lfliunrs and the ftaTiStfs en-
chape1tT that our fhaaty people aaHh'ied the
fashion embellishments Yesterday ~ hasten the
ordered trr the coming week. me lighter
ehRdes ot fabrics will nradaminRtc, Hnh every
thing viii look bright and merry TIA tho wolf
distributed RnaliHht of thr French DpGIa
House. which the managers of lha GAnA
OPERA House aud uf the Academy of Music
would io ~ we'll ~ initiate II nnt enalstn fof
Ii must be aa that tho ~ animation ~ the twh
iast-n theatres il atmrly cruelty 10 no
gentar sex who attenh theatrical performances
with some eS Daotatian 1T least of haiuE nhla 10
display the pretty gaws gtwa whi h ottentim@a
task to their HtmAaf thn imagination nt ont
lady friends aud the skill at their fp'uuiSsdnrS,
and all TO be hidden under y bAsh'', ~ II were.
This Ia not the first ttne that a stunt mr. hint
has been given IL theatre managots, but the
etoldity which thew have manifested heretofore
gives little hope that Il will ha headed. For tho
present all wa hHya To say further Ia the matter
II that II ~ an act of cruelty toward our fair and
fashionable frienda IT, keep their pretty moth
inEa lii quasi ohAcury uni an injury ~ tho
managers Themselves who iail t9 WirArt ladies'
to their theatres hy falling IN pray ke spirit
of elegance AMI \ rivalry IF attire among HON.
Economics little incidental mueis ana YOU
will not have ~ ecannmia liEhta.
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