The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-07-27
The AWFUL TIGHT GIRL.
an Old Fogy's Observations on Her
Appearance On the Stage.

/ am in the mood. said to the Clerk at
my hotel. to see play. -Kajoola, said
be. is your affair. Ills an opera comique,
With the best of music, and you shall see
tie prettiest women in New York
Tont mieltrf said III would not
pint the lily-yet vow there is sweet
concomitancy between pretty face and
pretty tune, and no song was ever the
less sweet for coming from rosy lips. l
bet you, he said. lis not a matter for a
wager, uuoth l.
Following the Clerks directions,
found myself seated in vast theatre
Which for its marble stairs and it's gilt
wslls-might, thought, have called it
self palace. 9he musicians were play
ing the overture as came in.
Presently the curtain rose-and o
Padourl Q Native mooeDyl 0 ye gentle
Nymphs OF Diana, ye who once cast the
shield of your own loneliness between
a stGoft and your Mistress | dare say
Aetpon scarce noted the difference-shail
/ tell you what / saw
Just heavens blush while j write it
some thirty hussies marched on the
stage--clad-shallI thus abuse thee, thou
good old English participle clad, then.
insilk and velvets-but as tight and close
toltheir forms as if each were a harlequin
or an acrobat
What is this said / to the spectator
nqxt me. IT'S the Pages CHORUS. an
sYer'd he. But wait until you shall see
Them as the Amozons! / had no mind to
wait-I went incontinently omt-the man
atthe door would have -stonp'd me-re--
turn check2 quoth he. Nay, friend, SAID
I'll have had my check, and am even
now de TetoatT. He look'd at me as were
alunatick.
Now | hold that pretty woman is
worth all the other pretty things in this
-.
pie of human Beauty SO degraded and
profaned had as lief put breaches on
the VcllltS deMCGic1s-and make a trollop
Of her in a twinkling
The essence of beauty. said ! to the
Doorkeeper-is the FLIP it gives to the i'm
agination-and no woman is so fair as
our fancy of her.-H. e. BONNER. in
August. ScTibner.
Stage Notes.
A curious and amusing mishap occurred
last week to M. Febvre and Mile. Reichenl-
berg of the Coincide Franchise, who are
en- tour through Russia and Hungary. 1t
appears thatswhen crossing the Russian
frontier their trunks were mislssid by the
railroad officials SO that when the artists
arrived at Odessa they had nothing TO
wear. The performance was announced
and the local manager would not hear of
disappointing his public 50 1t was decided
10 give pAmi Fritz with Russian cos
tunes. And the worthy Slavs hardly
knew the difference
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Oudin are in Lon
don and having great success in engage
ments at the homes of the nobility. By
special invitation, they sang before the
Duke and Duchess Of EdiDburg recently
at the house of Maria. Marchioness of
Ailesbury.
Only two weeks more of THE Brazil
Ian at the Casino, and then it will be
withdrawn to make room for Lecocq's
charming comic opera. Nine. Angot.
The first performance will be given on,
Monday evening. August II. The pro-,
nuction will be made US picturesque and
lavish as the requirements Of the opera
will permit. The costumes and scenery
will be In exact duplication of those used
a he late production at the Odeor Thea
Paris, when Mile. Grcnier appeared
Rtfette. a novelty in stage mechan-,
consisting Of an electrical display,
kculiar ARRANGEMENT OF vari-colored
Yill he introduced in the third act
prima donna, Camille D'Aryille.
Yer en- the steamer Kaiser Will
Iss air, with tAs expires,