San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-12-27

cut jet; this beautiful costume was
completed with dainty antique head
dress of black chenille.
The bridal dress of the fourth act
was q marvel of elegance, of white
MORE antique ordered especially
by Worth and hand-embroidered
in an elaborate pattern of
silver finished with a heavy white
silk cord which held the drapery in
at the back. The sleeves were finish ed
with puff at the shoulder and ell
bow Of white silk tulle.
Felix and Worth have said of Miss
Abbott, that her orders exceed in
magnificence those of royalty itself,
aud here is case in point: Felix had
just completed court costume and
| mantle for the queen of Portugal,
when he received an order from the
American prima dona for a gown to
be worn in "ROse of Castillo" The
result was the masterpiece he execu-
ted, worthy even of the French artist,
and probably the costliest and most
beautiful dress worn upon any stage.
1t is of pale blue satin. covered with
flowers in q darker shade of blue vel
vet, each flower standing out an inch
from the satin background, and out
lined in silver. The royal mantle
worn with this costume was intend
ed as copy of the queen of Portu-
gals, but as the work proceeded,
so many ideas filled the brain
of Felix that the design far
exceeded in beauty that of the Por-
tuguese queen. Where before he had
ordered scattering clusters of leaves
and flowers, he now left scarcely All
inch of the sapphire blue velvet, un-
wrought by the clever fingers of the
brodenses. When completed this
mantle weighed over $50 pounds and
has to be carried two pages when
worn by Miss Abbott. For the last
act of the "Rose of CASTLE" Miss Abb
bolt will wear dark blue brocade
combined with pale blue and yellow
satin, embroidered in the trailing
jessamine. This dress is called the
"Lomax Rifle Dress" being made in
compliment to the Lomax Rifle club
of Mobile, Ala, of which she is an
honorary member. In her wardrobe
Miss Abbott has thirty or forty his
toric dresses, made by Worth and
Felix; one of these is an exact repro
ductiOn of the coronation dress of the
Empress Josephine, as seen in the
great picture at Versailles, and
which she wears in the last act of
"Chimes of Normandy
The lovely cantatrice has made a
large fortune on the stage and spends
her money right royalty to enhance
her beauty by gorgeous gowns and
superb parures of jewels. Even her
stage crowns are..of solid eighteen carat
gold: the diadem she wears in the
second act of "Rose of Castillo" is
probably the gem of the collection
and is made of the most delicate fila
gree work, of the fashion of those
worn by England's Queen Elizabeth.
1t is surmounted by maltese cross,
embellished by four large diamonds,
while ten pendant drops hang in the
lower part of the royal bauble, each
catching and rejecting the myriad
lights of the stage, and trembling into
new beauty with each movement OF
the wearer; about her smooth throat
she wears clasped a collaret-necklace
of diamonds worth kings ransom.
This is over two hundred years old,
and was bought by Miss Abbott
at a sale in Paris of the jewels
of noble, but impecunious
house, and is said to have history
worth hearing 1t contains 357 stones
set in silver of the rarest workman
ship, in a remarkable and curious de-
sign of true lovers knots, with pend
ants, each one set with ten large dia-
monds and completed by a thick
fringe of small diamonds. Who
knows but this collarette may have
been the gage d'amour from some
French noble to his young and lovely
bride, in the days of Louis XIV,
whose gay court abounded in beauti-
full women and gay cavaliers.
No such costumes have ever been
seen in San Antonio as have been
worn by Emma Abbott in this engage
ment, and which Will be climaXed by
the superb ones to be worn in "Rose
of Castilen tomorrow afternoon.