Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-19
INTERESTING TABLEAUX,
which Drew tho Fashionable People of
New York to the metropolitan Opera

leaQ OF Mr.. Harry cannon, man
of fashion and artist, (known among art
lists as La Petit PtStolel, also as Harry
Popgun) were very fine. A gold frame
was erected across a generous stage in the
small room of the ball room at the Metro
poltan Opera House, which was danger
ously o~vercrowded.
The first picture was wine, Women
and Song" by Ii. Schneider. Miss Jean
ne BorrOwe, a very young, pretty girl,
was the woman. She was dressed in a
flowing robe of yellow satin and brown
velvet, in her right rand a golden goblet,
and in her lap a guItar-signifed vine
and song.
Second picture. "Medea." N. SieDel,
Miss Edith Draper, a beauty. Her dress,
"A white robe of monte cloth, classically
arranged at the neck ana with adeep gar
net sash. Her bare arms were very tine.
A dagger in her right hand and the other
arm extended betrayed a study OF Story's
famous statue.
Third. Duchess of Devonshire," by
GsinsborOugh, Miss Fanny walker,
about to be married to Mr.. j.. Howard
Wainwright, presented this beautiful
picture in a gray brOcaded dress, with
pink roses, over a pale yellow skirt. which
was "kilted up to the knee" A white
powdered WIG and black hat -surmOunted
her pretty face.
Fourth tableau, Miss Julia Van Duzer,
as MADAME Roland, the Last Days OF
Captivity" Goupil.
Ii Mime. Roland was one-half as we'll
dressed as Miss Van Duzer we suspect it
was not in her Last Days of Captivity. A
gray ~pOlOnaIse, over a skirt Of red and
white satin, betrayed modern Paris rather
that the Last Days OF Captivity. The
''Marselllaise" was played; a wooden
table, tin cup and chair gave this picture
a certain reality. Miss Van Duzer's fine
flowing light hair hung over her bare
neck. and she looked very handsome, more
like Mrs. Langtry, however, than like the
powerfully logical Roland.
Fifth. The Sibyl. f.. ;. Church.
Mrs. Frank Worth White is u beauty of
the Second Empire. She has been the
great rival of Mrs. James Brown Potter
in private theatricals. She is not so dis
tinguished or aristOcratic a beauty as
Mrs. Potter, whe is one of the handsOmest
women in the world, but still she is a red
and white .'~peachblow" beauty, dressed
in pale Nile green raj She leaned
forward consulting a figure of a sphinx,
behind whom burned incense, (WhyD
With her hair half falling from a knot, a
wreath of oak leaves and arms bare, she
made a beautiful picture of a pretty wOm-
an, but it might have been Flora or
Euphrosyne or anybody but a Sibyl. She
was not a figure to prophesy, but to inspire
valentines.
sixth. Was a Fower Market. Hugo
Solomon, Miss Marie Reed and Miss Susie
Day interpreted this pretty picture. The
latter, in the simple gray of a poor Paris
ian sOubrette, with cap and apron, was a
fine foil to the pompadour beauty in pink
brocade, who bought her Violets and roses.
Tho mngipal appOm ma nimpuf Wag Sk1u
Bist Me Fine Blume."
seventh. peasants Crossing a Field"
Breton. This was the best of all, inter-
preting the fine style Of Breton, his sim
plIcity and his coloring well. Miss Lena
Post, a majestic figure, Misses Martha
and Mary Otis, with a background OF the
field peoples and wheat fields which Bre-
ton loves, their coarse blouses, wooden
sabots and fresh, ingenious faces, repro
diced the picture with wonderful accur
acy. The music was ''The PEASANTS We'd
ding march,"
Eighth. The Ladies Waldegrave, by Sir
Joshua ReynOld. ThIs picture brought
out Mrs. Richard Irwin, the fine ~aristocrat-
ic granddaughter of Beverly johnson, of
Baltimore, whose daughters were a
''dream of fair women" Miss Edith Par
sons and Miss Ellie BorrOwe supported
her. They were all in powder, and the
VI GHoth tlG COAOI vi bDlluR AOAGlFs DdlG
yellow and pink and a heavenly blue, re-
called the style of the prince of portrait
painters. They are winding silks for
embrOideries, these pretty Wa~ldegraves.
The music was a pretty Old-fashiOned
minuet. Altogether this was a charm
ing and idyllic thing. Easy to produce
also.
Ninth. "Uarda," the daughter of an
Egyptian King. This was a very fine
coy of SickePs picture, and an admira-
BILE reproduction of the beautiful dumb
girl of Ebers' fascinating romance. Mrs.
Henry Eggleston, a magnificent brunette,
one of the married bellies of the winter,
was dressed in gold cloth and pale green.
She wore a deep yellow turban, and a
diamond snake in her lark hair.
She was apparently going up the steps of
the throne. Music, Turkish march,
which was near to Egypt, geographically,
as it was possible to get, and very ap-
prOpriate in local colOring. This was an
orientally rich tableau, with much to
commend it.
Tenth. Portrait by Titan. Miss Julia
Appleton, now Mrs. McNim, has always
made people talk of the old masters. she
is a splendid beauty, ''massive," very
large and very gorgeous, and she has been
painted by Porter, which is the modern
Immortality of a great beauty. She dress
ed Tor the \anderDllt TALL as erengaria
and "A noble figure she looked now in
brown and green, a rob embroidered with
Jewels. and her whole person sparkling
with jewels. Her really Titianesque red
hair and fine complexion made this a
great success. She vas a tritie too large
for the frame. and looked out of drawing.
But the music played II Duo Foscari,"
and we seemed to see Venice.
Eleventh, Louise" by Richter. Miss
Lizzie Lawrence. sister Of Mrs. f. Worth
White, was a splendid reproduction of the
Queen of Prussia. She is going down a
stately staircase. The dress, a white
satin, with crimson imperial mantle, a
curious sort OF cap tied uHder the chin, a
diamond star IN the hair. one hand press
ed 10 the breast, the other holding her
mantle. She looked the part Of that lovely
Queen whom the PrussIans worship who
said TO Napoleon when he offered her a
rose. Yes, your Majesty, but this is not
M%agdeburg."
Twelfth. Portrait, Court of Philip Y.
NalasqucZ. This was a piece OF herOism
on the part OF Miss Georgia Remsen who
made herself ugly to be correct to the pc
ture.
Thirteenth. Vintage Festival. Alma
Tadema. The new sensation of the winter
has been Miss Mabel Wright, who step
ped from East Nineteenth street into fame
as a blonde beauty one ball night. A
vineyard and a pretty woman always 20
well together, a large oak wreath on Der
heads long robef fell from her shoulders TO
the prOund. Miss Dupr- fha pyepl1pnt