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ALBAUGH's OPERA HOUSE.
JEANNE Winston's Howl and Masou-
linity-Can She Sing or Activity Is
She SO POPULAR?

Jeannie Winston's Howl and Mascu-
linity-Can She Sing or Activity Is
She 80 Popular?
Three-quarters OF the audience at Albaugh's
last night was composed of young girls, as 1t
usually is, from IL TO q years age. There were
a good many bald heads in the pnrquet, who
ought to have known there was no genuine
ballet. But there were some shapely limbs
exposed to view incased in tights. This craze
to see JEANNE Winston has been noticed by
our people for year past. Why is she so
popular!
and what there Is OF 1t is metallic in tone, with
occasional Sulening, but whenever she does
sing sweet there Is no power in the voice, She
IN nOtnn actress III any artistic sense and in
the assumption of male roles she has the physi-
cal person, but not the mental caiber. When
she attempts them the feminine qualities of
her excessive physical development betrdy
themselves into pncrilc weaknesses
An elderly gentleman whU has seen Jeannie
Wins,ona numbcrOftimes has been cndeayorlng
TO iind out why she Is so popular, aud has come
U the conclusion that the predominant Teas IN
is that Winston has cultivated desire for aS
near an approach to the nude in male arc as Is
possible. The necessities of the legitimate bal.
ct have required the almost total absence of
dress, but this is not necessary or legitimate in
parts like Fra Diavolo, Boucaccio, or
Piqullo, male Fra DiayolO would not dress
in half man aud half woman apparel. Jean.
ME Winston travels on her shape. She has Il
good company. notable fact In the sale of
her pictures Is the preference for those pictures
IN which Miss Winston's limbs or bust arc
elegantly conspicuous in the foreground
Miss Winston's acting impresses us as mascu-
line weakness, nt the same time giving us un
indescribable suggestiveness of something else.
Something that man dressed In any kind of
clothes could not give expression to. 1t istrue
theretis certain abandon about JEANNE Win
ston, but can't the line be drawn somewhere.
DO we go 10 the opera TO enjoy It's music the
ffg anI fHp Iall Of nr do
TO see one person who can't act, can't sing, but
attempt TO do the whole ballet ana make
spectacle of herself
Now 1t is very easy to tell what Miss Win
ston does do without saying much, but to
tell what she does not do, but what she should
do, is another thing. Let us consider first her
voice. She has voice, not musical one
however but a kind of q locomotive whistle,
a"howl," and an inimitable Winston howl at
that. None of her tones are chest notes
but some are "Ghestnuts" Every
note nc Ho is ialsett, and It Is eomleaI enough
Winston's physique. Conceded, then, she hlI
no voice, let lis now discuss her ability as an
actress She cannot act, She can only be
be so considered. Can one OF the
femme gender portray heroic man parts, as
Fra Diayolo, without, to say the least taking
some OF their manlness from them, which is
the essential substance of their admiration.
Did you ever witness Winstons fall in the last
ACT Oh IRA DlhNOlOE' She inlls on n mattress
concealed from yiew and then gently rolls
down nn inclined plane of soft and downy sub
stance like unto feather bfd Is this eXcit-
ing2 Does this represent or give the slightest
representation Of Il headlOng fall from a clilTl
Would nan be base enough TO be so enemi-
nate as TO hold bolster under him In n scene
Ike thisl No Winston cannot act, She does
not possess the power of changing her person.
allty. She is still the same in all her parts. In
Fra DiavolO' we do not see the bandit cnief
but the tall and portly form Of the fair Jeannic.
Plqui,lo, the street singer, Is to al appearances
aud bluc'pink tights and, in fact, IN the score
OF characters she assumes she Is still the same
JEANNE in spirit, in person. In voice, In musical
agony ~ Oscar Wilde breeches, and as pre-
mier de ballet,
Just think OF Lawrence Barrett playing
opheli9, or Lady Macbeth, or Hazel Klrkel It
would he the acme OF the ridiculous.
What think you, then, of Jeannie Winston as
Fra DiaYOlO?
The Performance last night was given with
the usual zest ana spirit in which this excel
lent company, as a whole, always distinguish
NEW NATIONAL THEATER.
Henry Ward Beecher lectures on "Con-
science" tonight at the New National Theater.
II is safe TO say the audience will be large 10
hear this distinguished divine and orator,
THE DIME MUSEUM.
ssThere could be no doubt Of the earnest wei.
come to be accorded Sid @. France AMI his
accomplished company, and last night at the
Dime only confirmed the anticipation. il was
a glorious time, said everybody, aud every
body determined to come again and bring
friends Tho opportunity for a great enjoy
ment will extend through the week.
HERzoG's OPERA HOUSE.
Certainly the "Way Down South" company
received az Herzogs last night most enthu-
saslic welcome The cantatrice, Miss Hllda
Thomas, sang and sang again, recalled and
which her New York fame was won, delighted
the national audience probably rs much as
II did that Of the commercial metropolis, Il is
sweet and pretty and sly, The polpourri iml-