The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-11-30

would be happy 10 give the reporter any
information she possessed. As this expires.
sion indicated that she had taken the OBJ.
ject OF the visit rather more seriously than
was intended, and us no disquIsition on
the latest political or economical phenom-
ena OF South America was expected, the
interview was opened with a query which
was to set matters on their proper footing.
"IIow did you amuse yoursolIin South
American"
Who has ever known French woman
to resist opening her heart to such an in
quiry which duly appreciates tho fact that
amusement to her Is the first min in life ?
Naturally, then, Mile, Marie's reply came
out with a genuine ring Of Candor;-
mot at all. 1t was horrid."
"You didn't like the people or the coun-
try?" -, >
Here Mile. Marie heSitated us though she
could not find the right word, when her
friend, NJ. TautIenberger, the tenor Of the
troupe, who assisted very usefuly at the
conversation, helped her out, and her up
proving mods showed that the two minds
were of but a single thought,
"DeJ pOSeursp people who pose ostenta-
tiously to show off their line Qualities), he
added, "they are lot OF pretentious shams
who want to make you believe that they
have wonderful taste in musical matters,
while they don't know anything"
"That's 1t exactly" Mile. Alarie chimes
in, they're awfully stupid. Why, II an
innuendo isspoken when everybody would
touuk baro nvnrvhoJ,, lbarn ,rn,'II a.,t
very carefully look round to see who would
venture to initiate the laughter, and from
sheer want OF courage they'd appear per-
fectly serious and unmoyed." :"
perhaps they are too virtuous sort oil
people for opera bouiEe," 1t was lightly
limited.
'"rhey're rather puritanic," was Mile.
Marie's response. "When |, in the 'Cloches
dc CorneviIle, did thedance with lhe slight,
graceful lifting Of the petticoats, which Is so
popular here aud everywhere else, they Rp-
pcared shocked-the ladies ut Rio Janeiro
they put their fans before
their faces; II was too ridiculous" and Mile.
Marie laughed heartily. "And yet don't
believe the women are bit better than ours
in Paris."
"Oh, North and South America why it's
like comparing day and night" broke in
NJ. Taulfenberger.
"Perhaps 1t was owing to this" Mile.
Marie went on explaining. "Wewere the
frs. genuine comic opera singers whom
they had ever heard. Before we came they
only had cGfechdntdnt singers Of the ranks
OF tho AlCasar performers IN well known
1 fs kLntl0uI T., po al kbasn la Il al
sung ut the small, cheap theatres while we
appeared at the grand opera houses, where
hitherto the Italian opera troupes had al
ways been heard. Hence we had the most
fashionable audiences; and having never
listened in such a place to comic opera
they didn't know what to make Of It, and
didn't dare toappear amused"
"Did they not applaud much2"
"They were afraid to spoil their gloves
(crdguer lettrS O1ntS)," the tenor vehcmently
exploded. ooh, those people In South
America, they put everything on their
backs, and the rest Is nothing; they have
no esprit, no taste. They don't know any.
thing except to dress and TO pose"
"What cities in South America did you
visit?"
"Rio Janeiro, Ntonteyideo and Buenos
Ayres were the principal ones" Mile Marie
responded, "and they were all very much
alike, except that the public at BuenOs
Ayres was a little better, and that at Monti.
deo VIC played in very beautiful theatre
finer than any in New York. II reminds
you Of the new Opera House in Paris, and
Is really magnificent"
"IIow do you like Havana and NTexicoF''
Every much indeed. There, especially
in Mexico, the public are warm, apprecii-
tive and full OF spirit. In Mexico the life
behind the coulisses is the same rs in Paris
the gentlemen come to your dressing
room between the acts, and there Is that
entente, that magnetism between the artists
and public which Is 80 delightful and in.
vests the theatre with slch All additional
charm. There Is nothing Of that sort in
South America--its dolorous country"
ITS not country at all,n The tenof
broke out again, vehemently. "Their gov.
ernments are no governments. fotinstanCe
in Rio"
"Yes," Mile. Marie fell in, "they've an
Emperor there who Is no Emperor At all
IA @ fchtnt de iui (they don't care rap foi
him. They treat him like the King Bo'
becho in Barbe.Bleue.'
"It's no country at all, y the tenor insist
ed, by way OF repetition. 81 tell you, they
have no governments"
"How arc the critiCs7"
'They don't know anything" Mile. Mn.
rie replied. Nobody reads tie papers oi
cares what they say. Perhaps they may
rage about the Bourse and commere, and
then the criiiqtis OF the theater, at the tag
end OF the column, where nobody will see
IT,"
''The system of newspaper recidme, then
Is not much in vOgtieW
"Recidmei why, II isn't the custom ever
10 advertise the performances In the papers
and what astOnished ne still more was thai
there were no posters, either at The theateI
or anywhere on the walls, as is Usual here
and In Europe
"How do the theatre.goers ever know
what going on at the tlieatres2" ..
1.-THE custom Is to print little handbills
and to distribute them all over the cafes C
the town"
"liad you good houses2'
"Oh, yes, very good, though NJ. Grau
maue HlOrc money, tnlnkt III MEXICO tnAl
in all the three South American Capitall
put together" ..-..
"IIow are the women in Rio?-pretty7
"No, but very much dtessell,n Nile
Marie replied. "They paint themselyei
ieariully.'
"Rouge or white2'
"Both, and blacken their eyebrows AM
eyelids awfhlly."
'"They all do that In those Southern coun
tries" the tenor Contemptuously broke in
"lIow Is the CoOking2'
every bad" said Mile, Marie; 'just "a il
New York"
On the other hand, NJ. Maurice Gnu AZ
peats to have been as much delighted I
Paola Marie was disgisled with the TIL
Mf. urau says that In a pecuhhty senl
There is no comparison between tue Nv