Evening journal., 1892-10-05

advertised young
English woman is said to orecciye a salary 81
$500. q week from Mr.. Charles Frohman.
while the common herd who do the same
act very nearly as well, consider them.
selves In luck when they can count on ne.
ceiying a hebdomadal stipend Of forty or
fifty dollars.
lam not like the juror who called His
eleven companions fools because they
failed to agree with him, and although
am free TO confess that Lotte Collins was
a distinct disappointment 20 me when /
saw her at the Standard theater, Kew
York, few nights since, ! realized that
there must have been something more
than the commonplace about her dance.
or it would never have created such a
fprore in London / watched closely for an
explanation Of the extraordinary popular
it's Of this extraordinary ARTISTS" extraor
dinary dance.
And l have discovered it.
Miss Collins has mnde q bit for no other
reason than that she strives by contrast
and by every ether means possible to ere.
ate the impression that she is simply bub
bling over with animal spirits. She swar.
gers, she wriggles, she sways back and
forth, she shrugs her shoulders, she whips
her hair on the floor she whoops, she
shakes her head her shoulders, her arms,
her hands, her body and her feet While
she sings the chorus she Is the personinca-
tion Of resstless motion-a creature who
is unable TO longer control the pentup an
imal spirits which she has uontrived io
keep in check while she spoke the sense
less words Of the varous stauzas.
Were Miss Collins "Ta-ra-ra Boom. de.
nyp introduced into a play as the doing-
Of a young woman who had just returned
from a late dianer where she had imbibcd
too freely of champagne, | should unhesi
tatngly pronounce it an artistic piece oi
acting But as for singing or dancing
or even kicking, Miss Collins net IS be-
meath criticism.
If any one takes pleasure in seeing th,
entics Of harebrainOd schoolgirl, two
| thirds intoxicated, depicted on the stage
| he viii enjoy Miss Collins attempt to dc
/ lineate such a character, for she does it e
/ the life. That is all she does, and the com
ments Of the New York papers On hri
work are therefore absolutely incompre
! hensible to me.
Pauline Hall and her opera company
! opened at the Fifth Avenue theater recent
\ ty in new comic opera -'Purtania.n Thl
4 lfbretto was written by G. NJ. S. McIlcl
I Ian, a bright newspaper man, and thi
music was composed by Edgar Sullmai
Kelley. Both these gentleman have dom
well ia "Puritanian
IL seems nowadays TO be the rad anon
the critics TO say Of a libretto, If it b
bright and sparkling, that it attempts 4
be Gilbertian.n II the score includes SOM
swinging numbers which give promise q
| general popularity, the music is declare,
TO be reminiscent If the two words
reminiscent and "Gilbertian,n were e
be eliminated from the vocabulary Of thl
average newspaper critic OF modern comil
opera, the notices Of new productions IL
that line would occupy very much les
space than at present.
Mr. Mcclellan has made Salem witch
craft the moving theme Of his book Thi
would not ordinarily be considered a par
ticularly promising subject for a fin d
steele comic opera, and was genuinel.
surprised to find that "Puritaniap con
tains as many queer conceits and bright
original speeches as any opera that Gil
bert ever wrote. Another point in "Puri