The morning call., 1891-12-25
A LIGHTNING CHANGE.
Miss Cayvap Makes Her Wedding Toilet
In Three Minutes and a Half.

Miss Cayvap Makes Her Wedding Toilet
In Three Minutes and Half.
According to all precOnceived notions it
requires more time fer a girl to array her.
self in bridal fnery than to make any other
! kind of toilet. Wedding guests remember
the invariably long waits at the church
while the fair bride wrestles with her we'd
ding veil and agonzes into her bridal gloves.
But over at the Lyceum Theater Miss Cay
van does the whole bridal paraphernalia in
exactly three minutes and half from the
time she speaks her last lines before the
wedding scene. II you happen to be
woman favored with the entree of the
pretty dressng-room behind the Lvceum
stage, aid will promise not to Stir or speak
you may be allowed to witness that light
ming change which beats the record of all
ancient or modern costume transformation
scenes.
AT precisely five minutes to II you hear
the swish of silken skirts and the quick fall
OF sllppered feet coming down the corridor
and Miss Cayvan dasheS in from the stage
IN close-httnS yellow gown hooked up in
the mysterious hidden fashion peculiar to
the stylish dress of the day. She sis down
In front of the mirror and while the deft-
handed maiden. Katy changes the colored
shoes for the bridal slippers, Lady BOunti-
full has tossed off the big lace hat with its
yellow roses and Invested herself of the
waist that is nodded so perfectly to her fig
ure that one doubts its being designed to
come of az all And before Katy can pos
sib!y button the sipper-straps her ladyShip
stands IN the middle of the floor with her
arms over her head, waiting for the heavy
satin bridal dress, OF rather, she would be
waiting only that her wish is anticipated.
and as soon as she lifts her hands the dress
1alls with them, down over the fluffy hair,
ana sips to its place at her waist. The
sleeves of the satin bodice are OF delicate
chiffon, long and close, but the arms are
thrust recklesSly into them, and with a little
skip the yellow skirt drops about her feet.
She slips ont of 1t, and Katy fishes it out
from beneath the long white train throws
1t over chair, and with single turn has
tie wedding veil ready.
Thei white bodice hooks from the throat
to the point, and has a mass of swaying
crystal fringes to be hooked up over il.
NhIle the maid secures these fringes the
mistress fastens her veil over an old silver
comb and smiles at you from the lace web
She knows she is on the home-stretch now,
and can afford to smile. She smoOths on
and buttons pair OF four-button gloves,
picks up her bouquet and has fifteen seconds
TO spare vi the three minutes and half.
Before you have really recovered your
breath she IS back agan-the act is over.
| In Just nYe minutes from the time she comes
into the dresSing-rOom in the yellow gown
she takes off the one dress. puts on the
other, goes on for the scene, finishes it and
the people are leaving the theater Perhaps
you don't believe it, but time il for your
self. The manager didn't believe it could
be DONE either. The woman who played
the piece in London wore her wedding dress
under cloak in the last act. Miss Cayvan
knew the New York audience wouldn't tOl-
crate such an anacnTonISm The stage man
ager insisted that she couldn't make the
given time. She insisted that she could AT
the dress rehearsal OF the piece he took out
his watch ard said to himself "We'Il see
how long it takes her, and prove to her that
it can't be done" He did see. She was on
the Stage before he could get the other peo-
pie there, and has been every performance
since. When woman will she can dress in
three minutes, and when she likes she can
take an hour to adjust n veil and pin on her
little bonnet and be busy every minute, too.
N. Y. sun.