Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-28

m ere child she exoelled in many of the
dances of the day. OF course she
was given ample opportunity
to display her abilities upon
the stage, and before shs was
out of her teens she was the most famous
dansuese in Spain. Unlike her ances-
tors, who had been satisfied with their
eountry's applause, she !onged for tri-
umphs in foreign lands, and before she
was twenty she had appeared in Turin
in Milan, where she was honored by the
presence of the Emperor Francis Joseph
and his court, at the Cello, and San
Berndetto: in Venice, in Bucharest,
Odessa, Alexandria,; Cairo, Brussels,
Paris and London, and always with great
success and applause.
LONGING TO CONQUER
the new W orld she came 10 this country
but the outset of her career was very un-
fortunate. Her manager was inca pable
and he took her on & tour through the
small towns and the Cansdas. She re-
turned to New York thoroughly dis
gusted, when she had the good fortune
to attract the attention of James
NJ. Nixon, then the manager
of Niblo's Garden theater. He
engaged her at salary of
$500 per week and all expenses and made
her the attraction on the off nights of
Edwin Forests engagement. Theatri-
cal people know that the hardest trial ar
artist can have is TO be an ''off nightn
attraction. BY dint of properly whet-
ting the public appetite, however, inter-
est was aroused in Cubas, and so different
were her dances from any that had hith-
eTto been seen in the country that she
almost Instantly became the rage of the
town and or her nights the immense
theatre was packe to its doors by the
beauty, the fashion, the culture and the
wealth of New York. After some
what heightened season in this city, she
was taken on a tour through the country
under the direction of Col. T. Allston
Brown, now wsll-kIiown theatrical
agent of New York. Everywhere she
went she was received with the most I'M
bounded enthusiasm, and her houses
were invariably crowded to repletIon.
Speaking of her she other day to Col.
Brown, he said to me: "There never
was such Spanish dansuese In this
country as Cubas. She was
FULL OF ANDULUsIAN FIRE
and abandon, and If May paraphrass
NV poosB ShS GRAVE mbuo d
thing People talk nowadays about
Verona Jarbeau' g skill with the fan.
wish :ney could have seen Cubas Il fer
fan dance. In her hand 1t became liv-
lug, sensieIt being capable of expressing
all the passions of tbs soul, but es-
peoieily those of love and desire, in the
most eloquent manner. Every feather
in II seemed tongue and every spectator
felt that at lest one of Its most Subjective
speeches was for him. She :iso did
scarf dance which wac :he personincation
of poetry. As pantomimist was also
exceedingly graceful and expressive.
When say graceful / do not mean the
grace of ordinary womankind but that OF
the artless infant. II does seem to me,
that Cubas could not be awkward
IL she tried. Once in Pitts
burg saw her step on banana peel
whicn threw her to the ground. She did
not clutch wildly at fistful of air as I
have seen men do who have met with a
similar accident, but she vent down a.
gently and apparently as easily as have
seen thisDedowh alight in field. l
never knew her to diseuchant an audi
encs but once, and that was at the Ma
tional theatsr, In Cincinnati, in 1861.
She had appeared in s'The Wizard
Skif," in 1.-The French Spy,o and
"Narramatta. In which she had t.