Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-19

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bet Jimmie CONN up to sit with yer:
Name laughs good naturally. and shakes her
head until the crisp little papers rustic like the
Joyous, so joyous that whom lunch time comes
she can hardly stop to heat her bottle OF tea on
laughs so much at the wiiticisms of her com
panions that she does not find time before the
her piece of custard pie. During the afternoon she
f. in a fever OF Impotence, and when the clock
whistles blow outside she is out OF her Bingham
md into he- wooilen waist quicker than il takes
TO tell it. and with her little hood pulled over
her forehead so as to conceal all the tell-tale
curl papers she threads her way swiftly along
the crowded streets over to of the big tene-
ments on the east or west side of the town.
That night she goes to dance with Jimmie.
ball down town by The Gentlemen
sons" or the Terence Murphy Shoot.
ing Club" Name is not dressed in
Her daily iutter through Twenty-third street,
with all its opportunities for observing the lat
est importations in the shop windows have put
her up to 4 thing or two, and so her white muslin
or possibly tulle gown is both coQuettish and
neat, and her arms ard the CLEAN OF neck re-
vealed by it are as gratifying 20 the gaze as any
to be seen ut n Newport function OF the most
elaborate character. With flushed cheeks and
smiling lips she dances about with her Jimmie
and occasionally with her Jimmie 8 friends, and
II is close to daylight when she seeks her home
1by tnat time the curling Dang tnaJ mas frame6
the far face daintily through the night is
straight and limp. There will be no curl papers
put on them again that day, however: The
tired child will bury her burning face in the nil
lows for the srace OF an hour or so, and then
there will come the inevitable knock on her bed
room door. After quiet toilet and a cup of tea
Name will go back to her chair in the work
room looking pale. sad and regretful. She is
not so very unlike the fashionable girl of society
after all.
That versatile genius, Dion Boucicault. is
dead, and was the last person with whom he
did any literary work. We were chatting one
day on the subject of plots for novels and plays,
and he expressed doubt of the possibility of
anything absolutely new in that line. dis
.'well,'' said he. ''if you will invent an en-
tirely orgina! theme | will 90 into partnership |
with You TO write it up
Then here it isl I responded. "In all !
your own connections Of plots, and IN all your
appropriations of other folks plots, have you |
come across one in which q husband deliberately |
placed his wife as the bride of another man in |
order to get this second husbands money as !
soon rs he should die, which an incurable NAL |
ady dooms him to do within year or soF''
''No. haven't, and it is right down good |
one. The title ought to be Two Mems Bride. |
Shall we write its''
Boucicault was an impu lsive man, and before |
parting we had settled it to write alternate |
chapters OF the proposed romance. That is how |
came to be the genius collaboration in novel. |
the completion OF which between us constituted |
his last composition on earth. We labored very
pleasantly, each being uuhampered by the other |
in his or her own chapters, but discussing to-
geLner tile general plan ana It's execution. |
Boucicauit always did his writing in solitude
and with pen. knew Of his having dictated
to q ssenographer as rapidly as ordinary talk,
quiet. thoughtful and considerate article for the
North American Review. and was therefore sur
prised when he said:
az never undertake to make fiction hastily / |
must see II go out from the point OF my pen in
black ink right onto white paper. Opinions can
be phrased sliblv enough but to originate story
matter, with elaborate scenes and characterize
tion, is glow work II we'll done. ~
We differed only on one point. and that was
whether. in the estimation of the novel reading
public woman or money is the more interest
Ing He insisted that the duplex bride of our
story was the prime object, VIII lie argued that
the million IN money, at which the schemers
aimed was of more popular consequence. But
he convinced me that he was right. and so we
agreed on 1.-TWO Mems Bride" as the title, lust
as he had at first proposed. Had he lived a lit
tie longer the story would have been M, into
dramatic form for theatrical use.
This is the age of realism in theatrical effects
Real water splashes in the tank drama. real fish
fried in one thenter, real bulldogs bark in
another, while in still another, real biiiy-goat
chews the fake grass and wonders in what age it
was mown. But now we are threatened with
bit of realism which will curdle the very blood
of hot youth. We are, SO saith rumor. to see in
the coming revival OF Anthony and Cleopstra"
asp--not live one, to be sure, but n cum
uingiy devised machine one-crawl over the
drspery &C Cleopatra's couch kissing as il pur-
sues its sipuons course, mount upon her recum-
bent fern and set his fsngs in her bosom, while
from l. ruby eyes darts electric fire. 1t win be
something to strike an icy chill to the very mar
row OF your bones, put IL Will DC eneCtlVe, ana
unless all signs fail it will meet with far
greater success than the late generous expose OF |
fesh-colored tights. for this serpent will crawl |
on the bare skin OF the actress. Ere it strikes |
1t will pause and turn its head toward the audi
ence, in order that every one may catch the evil |
glitter ~ Its eyes, How is that for q melodra-
matte villain of an asp?
-.
The theatrical town is dancing mad and the /
cry is still they come. First our eyes were
gladdened by the sinuous and sensuous picture |
of CarmenEita's 1.-THE and timber elasticity but
abe is, already by-gone in our regard. Then |
came Oteros who makes up for her lack OF lis
eome length bya racy roundness and glorious
gerniture OF globular grandeur; ard she will
last only briefly II these two daughters OF |
spain were wisps OF hay, the donkey OF gid ed
youth would starve to death between them. |
Fortunately there is no such awful prospect, for
Birdie has come. Yes. Birdie Irving has not
only come, hut she has danced and temporarily |
conquered. The music of her heels has touched
Birdie enc OF the family. She is feature in
an otherwise poor comic opera. What promised
to be duel a lon trance is trans formed into |
triangular fight. Thank heaven for this. was
to be solicitous for the morals OF our
good city. Birdie arrives just in time to save
us; for, as you may imagine, there would have
been no WAR Of the Roses IL there had been .
q third rose of still another color.
Birdie is English. and hence. while she may
not be able to walk Spanish she starts out
with great deal in her favor. And then she is !
q blonde, genuine blonde, while Carnenci;s .
and Otero are black night. So Birdie is
neither q blackbird nor yet teeter- tail snipe |
She is beautiful yellow bird, and what she 6
lacks in song she makes up in the exquisite | ,
grace OF her legs and wings-excuse me-arms |
Birdie is what is known q skirt dancer, far |
more suggestive, slluring and nsinuating style Z