St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-03
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FrenchWoman.
She Speaks by Actions and
Holds the Audience Spell
bound.
Her Partisan Gowns Are Mar
wells Of Beauty and EX-
cellence.
A List Of Those Who Saw
Floria La Tosea in
French.

The woman of whom one of her own
clever countrymen has said, ''She has
the face of frog, and the voice of a
nightingale" played LA Tosca" last
night.
There has seldom been seen an au-
dlence in st. Paul so generally in even
ing dress as that which gathered at the
Metropolitan last evening. The few
men who wore business suits looked
guiltily conscious Of their inappropriate
ness, and the women in reception gowns
who brayed the weather, and
waded across the unprotected pave
ment into the theater-really the
Metropolitan needs porch-felt repaid
by the knowledge that they were of the
correct majority. Most of the audience
were late. They missed the first part of
the opening scene. but not ali of them
felt the loss keenly. 1t was a very
pretty house, and well-behaved house.
1t didn't make any noise by laughing or
appiauding in the midst of an act, but
reserved its enthusiasm till the curtain
fell. Then the applause was thunder
Gus. Nine. Bernhard received hearty
recall after each act. In the mean time
the audience read its books Of the play,
and tried to feel Partisan.
Genius is OF no language. What the
minor characters said may have been
unintelligible to the majority of the au-
dience, but what Nine. Sara said would
have been perfectly understood by a
deaf man. She speaks with her body.
her eyes, her face, her hands. She is
superb. She is Bernhard. She loves,
she caresses, she is madly jealous. She
begs, she prayS, she RACES, she kills and
through it all holds her audience spell
bound. She leaves nothing to be said.
Bernhardt's Gowns.
From Paris-and of course the gowns
are Partisan gowns. Truth to tell, the
clothes of the company are neither fresh
nor especially beautiful. Bernhardt
herself wears the pale-cOlored gowns of
Floria Tosca's time, and is the only
really well-dressed member of the com
pany. In the first act she wears pale
dress or suggested green, made, as are all
her gowns. in the ScaDt-skirted, short
wasted empire fashion. 1t has sash
of dark green and an embroidered scarf
of the same color. The large green hat
has pink roses, and la diva carries a
long white stick. Her gloves, of course,
are the long wrinkled kind she has
made lannon's. In act two her gown
is pale gauZe over satin, with a
ruching about the bottom of
pink roses. The overdress is pale yell
lowiSh green satin, with an applique
pattern in gold, and gold embroidery
| all about the train. The overdress IS
topped on the right with a bright green
metallic spray. The low bodice is half
of white gauZe, and is completed with a
silver girdle. In the third act La Tosca
enters III long cloak with a cape of
lavender faille, with ermine bands. The
dress beneath is of pale gauZe, neither
green nor white, with darker border
about the bottom, and apple-green sash.
The same gown is worn in the last act.
These Were Present.
The theater last night was very we'll
filled. the balcony was crowded, and
the gallery nearly as full. The lower
floor showed few rear rows empty,
and only a few boxes were filled. In
the boxes were Mrs. A. b. StIckney,
Miss Stickney, Miss Hawkins, Miss
Greve, Mr. and Mrs. A. p. WaIlich and
party, Crawford Livingstone. The
Baroness Desteurs. Miss Herivel and
William Elliott occupied stage box.
| The baroness was dressed quietly in
black, and kept in the rear of the box.
Some Of the notable people in the
house we're: