Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-03-18
SHORT DRESSES AND FOG-HORNs.
A Gurgiing Excuse for the Exhi-
bition of Good-LOOkIng Girls.


New York Correspondence Omaha Herald
There is kind OF fog OF bad music
resting on our city. There's mill up
town that sends out 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 n bunch.
But rs costumer said to me the other
day--if it wasn't for comic opera what
would society do with its unemployed
girls? 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, I'd forgive its existence.
There are about two hundred girls
waiting to be made prima donnas by the
American Opera Company. 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 zap
pearance" yet Some, Of them were
white-faced and hungry looking, but they
| al 1,,tn rI oil it,ly .,f
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
ever know Abbott to be without an audi
ence? One is trying it, the other is doing
it. That's the difference IN the two opera
schemes.
There is something in Theodore
Thomas that will make stir presently.
That gentleman, am told, in carrying
his Wagner ideas to the bitter end has sci
himself against the Jews. There has been
one or two bitches already in the orches
ira and in the Philharmonic on this ac-
count. 1t is such suicidal piece of non
sense that l hope the stories are exagger
ated. From all that have seen OF Mrs
Thurber believe her to be actuatcd by
the noblest OF impulses and the most lib
eral spirit. But l cannot say that Mr.
Thomas has shown this same spirit il
his work. He is curiously narrow in
some respects.
If the American opera project succeeds
as it was originally planned in the heac
OF Mrs. Thurber, it will be owing to hel
tact and enterprise, and not to Mr.
Thomas breadth of view or adaptability
to the inevitable.
The cowboy pianist gave private
soiree at his swell rooms on Thirteenth
street the other night. He wore two regu
lation revolvers in his belt and the handl,
of bowie stuck out OF his boot. A lassc
laid on the Steinway grand. He played
. polonaise of Chopin, and fired hi
pistol with his left hand while h,
was running chromatc scale with hi
right. And yet there were mean-spritet
musicians there who wouldn't acknowl
edge that he had CLEANED out" Chopin
, He called his entertainment roundup
, and he advertises to put rope arount
i Beethoven's horns at Steinway hall Fri
day night.