The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-15

fear. l would not look well in ballet,
especially since my leg was broken, as the
fracture still shows, especially when the
foot lights are turned on. Madji had just
received an invoice of new tights costing
about four hundred and eighty dollars,
believe. Sixty people have to wear them,
and they require two pairs each. These at
81 or $3.50 per pair, last some time and take
off the profits, The costumes in this opera
are quite rich and warm They do not i'm.
pede the movements of the owners very
much though. Some Of the girls wear
large cavalry boots which keep OF good
deal of the cold think.
1 called on Miss Wordsworth who Keeps
the costumes in repair. She looked quite
careworn, "Qne opera costume may look
like d very small matter to you," she said
sadly, "but when you come to sixty or
eighty of them, it is big job to keep them
in shape"
1t is quite homelIke and cheerful at the
wings, between times, when the ballet is
off Here is tall blonde girl wearing
neglige costume which leaves her limbs
perfectly free to move about in almost any
given direction. She is crochetting. Here
too is another hippytyhop artist sitting
with her short skirts so arranged that she
cannot muss them as she sits and slumbers
with her cherry lips little bit aiar. An
OGueF Ou0 IS euSdg6u III ldIIIIlS. nave
always thought that any one who has the
patience to teach school and make tattiAg
ought to be able to look Job in the face
some day and make the boil industry hide
its head in shame.
We of the audience are too apt to imagine
the ballet as engaged in reading notes from
the dry goods clerks who are trying to be
roue's on IS a week. We have been taught
to regard the ballet girl as thus employed
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such cases, but to go behind the scenes and
discover these 1.-THE limbed gazelles in
tights, with their feet on the stove, en-
gagged in embroidering slippers for the pas
tor, was new picture for me. All is de-
mure, and gentle industry holds the fort.
All at once there is a loud and defiant
strain on the clarionet! The gentlemen in
the tin shop who tends bar all day and
plays on four kinds of drums, triangle,
string of sleighbells, xylophone, pair
of brass knuckles, a Tom Tom, Water
bury watch, a koodoo, joint of stove pipe,
a set of cymbals, a coarse comb, mouth
organ, pair of clappers, a bird call, a hotel
gong, bag pipe and length of gas pipe
in the evening, gives a wild thump to the
kettle drum and all is life and activity.
''Places allr' shouts the stage manager
with his wig in his hand. Tall girls fall
over short girls. The tatting goes this way
and the crochettlng the other. The come
dian with wild bound yells, 'flet me out,
can't you! git out of the way!' The girls
put on a smile commensurate with their
salaries and away they go like beautiful
bedlam let loose!
1t is fun to see them skip the light pedan-
tic toe and followed by applause gently re-
turn to their knitting. 1t is a business
just the same as selling goods or splitting
rails. The baritone said he was tired, for
ls,l %hn
also. No wonder he looked at the clock
with some anxiety. The prima donna Miss
Lamont did not complain but said it was
work all the time, as it is, surely, in these
operas.