Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-10-13

NiEht--Ths latest Stocking Is of Green
Shade--Little Things in Life We All
Need.
Special Correspondence OF Gazette and journal
NEW YORK, Oct. TIT is rather
funny to see the most solemn of New
York papers take up the question of
stage dancing and discuss its grace, its
beauty and the knowledge Of dressing
possessed by the dancers thereof.
Gotham seems suddenly gone dance
mad. And the woman who can kick
the highest, or who can throw Il certain
abandon into her style, is the one given
the greatest appropriation. We went
through siege of Carmencta that was
painful. In the beginning, when she
danced in n spectacular show, she took
some trouble, and really did graceful
Spanish dance that was as enticing as il
was artistic; but later, when painters
rushed after her and fashionable women
admired her, she became reckless,
and did dance that was partly con
tortion, lacking in grace, and altogether
indecent.
DANCING THAT HAS MERIT.
There are four dancers in spectacle
here now who really do marvellous
work, and they do it so earnestly and
enthusiastically that the idea of its not
being just right never seems to enter
your head. They rush on, two from
each side, and suddenly four feet are
caught together, and the four young
women are whirling around on one foot,
as if nature had intended them all for
storks. Suddenly they fly away; each
one upholds the uplifted leg as if it were
a banjo, and plays tune on it with
dainty be gemmed fingers. Then three
of them come down on two feet; the
other keeps up a stunning, and the
three for whom she plays do lot of
pretty steps, while white lace skirts
flare around, and they dance on until
apparently they seem exhausted and fall
at the foot of the young woman who is
apparently providing music for them.
After these eccentrics have departed,
four tough boys and girls come on and
do waltz and schottischc after the
fashion of CHIMNEY and Mag. This is
clever and funny, and both Of these are
far beyond any of the Carmencita or
"Boom-de-ay" people.
THE LoTTIE COLLINS CRAZE.
Speaking of the last suggest the per-
son who claims to be the originator of
the "ra-ra-ra," and who vulgarly
enough calls herself "Miss Lottie
Collins" Miss Lottie Collins would at
first glance be entered on the stud book
as "aged." 1t is asserted that she has
no backbone; possibly that is achieved
when one passes 40. Unlike most women
on the stage, she does not add to her
appearance by her makeup, for she
wears long yellow wig, arranged in
corkscrew curls, suggestive of nothing
else but the stiff wooden dolls of ones
childhood.
A GALLERY Gop's ESTIMATE.
The best criticism | have heard of her
was given to me bya gallery boy of long
experience, whom sought for an
opinion. Said he: at is an outrage"
| (He prefaced this with word begin
ming with large d and ending with Il
small one, which | don't care to use, as
it may offend some of the editors
"Der's plenty of American women who
could do that dance hundred times
better than she does, and what does she
| do after all? She walks around the
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in between her legs, rears it back, and
sings her verses; she don't kick, she
don't dance; you don't see no pretty
petticoats on her like you do on Lizzie
DAILY, and Pm dead tired OF it. She be-
longs on the Bowery; Broadway is too
good for her, and ii she is being paid
| 5000 night, she's got the softest snap
in this country, and Ill be -- there
he used that word again, if I'll pay 20
cents to see her again. I'm goin' to
| give me money to see the American
girls what really know how to dance.
Look at Annie Pixley! Look at Lottie!
Look at all them girls wot did the SER
pentine dance! And if you are in for
FORMERS, and it's dancin', give me
Vanoni! She's got some grace about
her; she's got kind of way that
makes all of us boys think Hay, hahn I
you nice little woman' But that
there Collins woman! The best thing
she can do is to take the ship home to
England; the Bowery wouldn't look at
her-at least only for once. | knows
what I'm talkin' about, fur goes to see
everything, and | says to meself, that
first night, says l, Miss Lottie Collins,
you had better sail for the fair shores of
Albiom!" After this he staggered out,
and felt that he had voiced my senti-
ments, and that no matter what said il
wouldn't be as much to the point us was
the view of this gentleman, who for a
number of years had seen everything
and had decided opinions about what he
saw.
A THEATRES BEST CRITICS.
1t is funny how the people on the
stage look for the approval of the gallery
and of the stage hands; they care more
for what they think than they do for
the entire orchestra. The swell set do
not really decide whethera play is going
to be u success or not; it is the boys,
whose ages range from 90 to 20, who
occupy the gallery, and the men who
do all the mysterious things behind the
stage, that settles this question. You
pay So for your seat, my friend, and
the boy up stairs pays % cents but he is
Il better critic, and he does more for OF
against the pay than you do, although
You think you know so much. 1t is al
ways the voice Of the people, not the
voice of the few, that makes u play Il
success or a failure.
woMAN's NEWEST NIGHTRoBEs.
1t is somewhat interesting for the
woman out for her fall shopping to be
shown pajamas, in which TO sleep. She