Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-30
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
Theater And Theatrical-The Up Town
March.

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Statue last evening at least, and was
"made of stone" perhaps for the first time.
Poor Galatea was ''born yesterday" you
remember. But the Langtry wasn't, I will
wager my life. IF she were SO lately come
into this mundane sphere, fancy she
would not be $50 worldly wise" as to play
a pretty game of checkmate with q rich
young man like Freddie! But for the last
few days she has displayed to an observing
and amused world that charming sense of
freedom and ease which belongs to a ma
ture SO fresh and innocent. SWINGING
along ia her long, narrow, pointed-toed
boots, up the avenue by her admirers side.
she manifested all that naive and girlish
carelessness which no doubt she imbibed in
her own Jersey. And then, the sweet in
tellectual companionship and sympathetic
elevation of thought between them at Del
monico's, where he watched her make her
way through capacious dinner,
and sighed 9 at the disappearance
of the last oyster! No wonder he
turned his silver knobbed cane round and
round in his expressive mouth and never
glanced sideways once, save to see what
the people were saying about him. Then
the confidential chats as they have driven
up to the Park, embracing in their CONVEX
sation such topics as wodld most naturally
come up, perchance to probabilities or
possibilities of future additions to their
| wealth, by means of the bright genius of
her ladyship or the managerial acuteness
of his dudeship. At any rate, she draw a
good house, and having had a lay
figure to do the part of the
statue, stepped forth, sans powder
and in her own hair, to play little better
than was anticipated, and to really look
quite pretty. Mr.. Abbey in superb even
ing suit, watched the performance with a.
gratified air, and the large bunch of lilies
that did duty as aesthetic Accomplishments,
gave natural charm to her surroundings.
She is somewhat improved in style since
she first arrived, and some who utterly
derided the idea that she was beautiful
| at first, now say they think her very pretty.
Probably if she makes another visit to
| this country after an absence, she may
''take'' better than ever.
In amusement houses as in everything
| else, New York is like the grass, "creep-
| ing, creeping everywhere but especially
stealing slowly but surely up town. Tow
ards and beyond Central park, seems to
be the run of things. Magnificent new
fats are rising on Fifth avenue and
| Broadway ''like an exhalation." Business,
residences, hotels theatres, opera houses
all inside the sacred precincts of Murray
Hill.
Walk down Fifth avenue starting
at Fiftieth street and see how soon
the eye catches a sign! "The Buck
| ingham" looms, long and narrow
beside the magnificent cathedral, whose
! mighty arches and carved windows,
lofty doorways and noble proportions
| only wait for more pennies to be made
perfect by the completion of the spires.
Next to that, "The Windsor" hotel so
richly decorated, so superbly frescoed and
furnished, with marble entrance and gen.
tlemen's hall, smoking, reading, billiard
| room, and other convenient apartments so
spacious, that one would suppose himself
| in kings palace, instead of in an ordi-
nary hotel. Then come modest signs of
modistes, and jewellers, florists, art furni-
ture, bric-a-brac, druggists, until we
reach the beautiful and quiet
Victoria" hotel, and opposite. the
world famous Brunswick" and ''DeImon
icos." And on Broadway, as far up as
| Forty-frst street stands the "Cosmopol-
| itan" theatre, and near by the new' Casino"
pronounced by travellers to rival the Grand
| Opera House in Paris, for richness of
| artistic decoration, for beauty of design
and for everything but size. Of these
| two houses, however, in my opinion, the
"Cosmopolitan" is the more delightful,
and l think as pleasant as any theatre in
the city. TWAS altered from the concert
hall, called the metropolitan Sum
mer Garden" in which Rudolfe
Arrson conducted his charm
ing orchestra concerts, and is
in every respect most attractive. In the
first place it gives one feeling of abso-
lutte security in case of panic or fire, for
the whole side can be instantaneously
opened, and the other exits make it almost
out of doors in any direction at a mo-
ment's warming. Then the seats are large,
| easy, and well set, giving plenty of room
for long legs, and convenient exit when q
man has an irresistible impulse to go and
see another man and returns feeling ever
so much better. The ladies can better
endure the sweet aroma of cloves, fagroot,
cardamon seeds and other spicy hypo-
critical odors, than they can the pushing
and squeezing which inevitably occurs in
less well arranged theaters. OF ali things
woman hates it is to have
fairly settled herself, gotten her bonnet
strings gracefully scattered, her opera
glass opened, her programme folded, her
bouquet at the correct angle, her handker-
chief tucked jauntily in the folds of her
draperies, her skirts neatly arranged, her
fan spread and waving before her smiling
dimples, and then to have man five seats
away rise, take his hat, cane, overcoat, pro-
gramme and opera glass and begin to work
his way towards her. She must rise, fold
back her seat, grasp with despa1ring clutch
all her pretty and easily crushed belong
ings, and then feel him rub her beautiful
three-dollar bunch of roses almost of, and
have his hat catch in her ribbons, and find
lis cane set directly on her foot and know
that she has dropped the opera
glass cover, and be fully aware that
instead of being graceful, easy, happy
woman, she is looking cross, miserable and
'all askew," with the horrible remembrance
that it must all be done over again when
he comes back! But here she sits in un-
told comfort. She need not move finger
if regular Jumbo of an alderman goes
for his Appolonaris lemonade! At least
did not while a whole procession filed by