The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-12-11
A PAIR OF KIDS.

Last Wednesday, at the Opera Hoase,
ga Pair of Kids" played to one Of the I'm
est houses ever known to have assembled
in Alexandria for any such occasion.-
Standing room was hardly available when
the curtain rose on an audience that was
..packed from floor to roof" And we'll
was it deserved, for surely never was such
a screaming absurdity presented on the
fully maintained from Alpha to Omega;
ut no time did it become mOnotouous-so
much fun; not once was there drag; not
once could the critics have wished for a
performance more amusing-for a repre-
sentation of characters more grotesquely
funny than those in this cast of ga Pair
of Kids" 1t was to all present reaiza
ton of amusements safety. Full of lu-
dicrous and startling situations it kept
the audience ever OH the alert as to what
would happen next. The "Giddy Girl"
brought down the house, and of all the
dzziest female Washers atioat she was
one. $50 giddy you know, but so young
yOn know" She was anywhere between
forty and fifty, and this fact in view rem
dered her acknowledgment of parental
restriction-"a Pm so young, you know"
extremely farcical and mirthful. Her
dellcacy added to her enchanting nodes
ty and her strong sex-like prediction
for Mysteries, and her eager desire to be
somebody's darling" kept the house in a
roar. Her dancing cannot be described
those who were present can think of it
and smile-from ear to carat the re-
collection.
That the assemblage could be held aud
royalty entertained with but little inter
mission for three and half hours by the
ridiculous and comical adventures Of an
old farmer come to the city in search OF
his wife and her pair Of kids-the wife
not SO acknowledgements volumes fol-
the veteran company.
The green cOuntryman found himself in
many an unlocked for slight fix" but it
is to be supposed that when he looked out
of gaol into the orchestra and beheld that
unfortunate, lone musician as he strug-
g1ed steadily even, if somewhat fercely
with toothless old piano in the attempt
to produce a Selection" to the amuse-
ment of a sympathetic crowd oflisteners,
he found a companionship in his misfor-
tune which was solaeing. Wemight even
imagine HIM as recognizing the greater
misery to be not his but the pianist's, and
rather congratulating himself as occupy.
ing of the two the better and the safer
position. If there is any landmark, any
ante bellum souvenir, anything which is
Indicative of retrospection in history, any
fetish which is particularly worshipped
by Alexandrians surely the writer does
not mistake when he hazards the guess
that it must be in the form of that much
unstrung, much condemned (by strangers,
Opera House tin pan, sometimes digni
fiedly named piano. It's a disgrace tt
the house, to the town and to the owners
It's barbarous infection on the tympa
nuns of theatre-goers; it's a wretched ex
cuse, complete fraud as a musical in
strumeDt, and an immense success only il
producing painful earache and IN Undue
ing everybody to recognize it as misera
bic subterfuge and melancholy blot upon
the prestige of any well-conducted per
Torrance Alexandrians should try tt
get rid of it by appeal or by the erection
of another Opera House, (Which would
undoubtedly pay;) aud the placing there
in of good music and properties" gen
orally.