Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-03-18
SHORT DRESSES AND FOG.HoRNs.
A Gurgling Excuse for the Exhi-
bitf0n of G00d.LOOking Girls.
New York Correspondence Omaha Herald.

New York Correspondence Omaha Herald. !
There is kind of fog of bad music
resting on our city. There's a mill up
town that sends out a continual stream
of it. They call it the Casino. The mist
rests on. everything. The singers blow
fog-horns, but they wear short dresses:
| Solomon, who has nice little talent and
a nice little wife-the latter carved on the
role of fame as Lillian Russell-is setting
up another mill at the Union Square:
A bellicose person named McCaull
is, waiting with his scantily-dressed
cohorts to get possession OF Wal
lacks. A native snarl of ditties,
called "The Little Tycoon" is to drift on
its own gauge and glamor into the Comedy
theatre. You can buy Mikados in Ger
man or English for fifty cents bunch.
But as costumer said to me the other
day-f it wasn't for comic opera what
would society do with it's unemployed
girls? l give it up. But there is worse
conundrum with comic opera, what does
society do without them?
Comic opera is a gurgling excuse for
the exhibition of good-looking women.
If somebody would put some new tunes
into it, Ed forgive its existence.
There are about two hundred girls
waiting to be made prima donnas by the
American Opera Company. I talked with
one of them the other day. She told me
to look at Patti. Didn't she commence
young and struggle? There were twenty
five of these girls in Mr.. Locke's ante
room patiently waiting there for laurels
and things. They hadn't had an cap
pearance" yet. Some of them were
and hungry looking, but they
were all resolute and all thinking OF
Patti, except one or two who were think
ing of Emma Abbott.
By the way, what combination Emma
Abbott and Mrs. Thurber would make.
It's singular that we can't get the two
necessary factors together in the great
schemes. Thurber would furnish the
IDEAS, and Abbott the audiences. Did you
,ver know Abbott to be without an audi
,nce? One is trying it, the other is doing
t. That's the difference in the two opera
chemes.
There is something in Theodore
thomas that will make stir presently.
that gentleman, am told, in CARRYING
lis Wagner ideas to the bitter end, has set
himself against the Jews. There has been
ne or two bitches already in the orches-
ra and in the Philharmonic on this ac-
cunt. 1t is such suicidal piece of non.
ense that l hope the stories are exagger-
ted. From all that 1 have seen of Mrs.
hurber believe her to be actuated by
ne noblest of impulses and the most lib v
raj spirit But I cannot say that MIR.
homas has shown this same spirit in
is work. He is curiously narrow in
ome respects.
If the American opera project succeeds =
it was originally planned in the head =
Mrs. Thurber, it will be owing to her
ct and enterprise, and not to Mr..
homas' breadth of view or adaptability sc
the inevitable. 2
The cowboy pianist gave a private u
Tree at his swell rooms on Thirteenth C,
rect the other night. He wore two regu- N
ton revolvers in his belt and the handle -
bowie stuck out of his boot. A lasso .
id on the Steinway grand. He played
polonaise of Chopin, and fired his ~
stol with his left hand while he n
IS running chromatic scale with his u
INT. And yet there were mean-spirited
usicians there who wouldn't acknowl-
ge that he had Cleaned OUT Chopin, q
3 called his entertainment roundup. y
d he advertises to put rope around
horns at Steinway hall Fri
Y night.