Omaha daily bee., 1889-01-13

other society actress whom people are
talking OF. Some one said the other
day when her prospects were being dis
cussed: IF they would give hcr IL boys
part, put her in n picturesque mascu-
line costume. and let her sing tenor,
she'd make $500 ,000.n For Mrs. Blaine
is u vocal phenomenon. 1t is not very
uncommon to see a man able to sing IL
falsetto soprano, every minstrel COM
pany has one or MORE, but a wOma
able to sing a true tenor is very uncom-
mon, and Mrs. Blaine can do it and do
it well. She is handsome, too; tall,
blonde, well made, and with a certain
dash and ~gallantry of manner that
would go well with a male part, and
would beyond a doubt attract. But one
OF her managers ana hackers said
shrewdly: "There is no sense
in playing the ace when you've
got the king aud queen in
your hand. The tenor voice and
the masculine dress are all very well
in their turn, but what's the use of
throwing away The value of the sym
pathy justly due her because of that
young scapcgrace's brutality to her?
Let that work first. She doesn't want
to play in comedy now; she says her eX-
p]erience Of life has been so hard and
tIutl IHdI ollc ttll u lIliS uuN JlllE Dub
tragedy. And that's very we'll for the
present. Perhaps she doesn't consider
it, but it's true nevertheless, that when
she wecps on the stage the audience
will remember that she is n mother Of
nineteen and a mother abandoned by
her natural protector, and they'll weep
with her. That's worth a lot OF money.
When that is over, why it will be fui!
time to work up to the use of her per-
sonal and vocal Advantages"
Meanwhile Mrs. Blaine works like Il
yellow-haired galley slave under Be
lasco's tuition, and he, when he isn't
teaching, is writing a play in which
she will possibly appear in the spring.
Annie Piyley's New Kiss Act.
P%ittsburg Dispatch: Miss Annie
PiXley gives an invitation TO the news
boys IN Pittsburg everey time she
there to act. The other night the gal
lery of the Grand opera house was
packed rs full as it could be with the
newsics.
To mark their gratitude to her, the
newsies dubbed together and bought n
big bouquet. One OF their number was
chosen to make the presentation, and
blacting-box on his back and the big
posey in his hand. The bow he gave
with the bouquet made Miss PiXlcy
laugh, but she didn't forget TO make
her usual request OF her small admlrer,
a kiss. Last year she. had difficulty in
stealing the salute, and for n moment it
looked as il the deadlock would occur
again, but, by a fine stroke of strategy,
Miss Pixley caught the boy and kissed
him before he knew where he was.
His companions in the gallery APP
plauded e%nyiously.
Philadelphia Press: i have been par
ticularly pleased TO find That American
audience have comc TO see US, have APP
plauded us, and then have come again
To see US, despite the fact that we have
offered them no elaborate stage decora-
tions or mountings. Our scenery has
been Of the simplest, or costumes SIM
ply such as have helped to portray more
fully the characters represented. |
think the tendency TO over elaboration
of scenery and oyer g-orgeousness OF
is, from what | hear, as APP
parent in this country as on h other
side of the Atlantic, and it is a tendency
which / consider contains an element Of
danger for the drama. Not that | would
counsel "A return TO the rude simplicity
of earlier generations in this
.respect-far from it. con
slider that historical correctness
of costumes is often ar essentials