The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-10-09
NEWYORK'SDANCE CRAZE
Bah SAYS THAT GOTHAM Is GONE
DANCE MAD.

Siege Begun by Carm0ucita Has
Engulfed the Town-Lottie Collins
Not Success-New Workers Disap-
pointed at the "ra-ra-ra-Boom-de
Aye" Singer - Womsn's Newest
Night Robes-She Has Donned Pa
jamas at Night-The Latest Stocking
Ia OF Green Shade-Little Things in
Life We All Need.
tCoAsrioht.)
NEW YORK, Oct. SIT 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 knowl-
edge of dressing possessed by the dancers
thereof. Gotham seems suddenly gone
dance mad. And the woman who can kick
she highest, or who can throw certain
abandon into her style, is the one given the
greatest appreciation. We went through
siege Of Carmencita that was painful In
the beginning, when she danced in a spec
tacular show, she took some trouble, and
really did graceful Spanish dance that
was as enticing as it was artistic; but later.
when painters rushed after her. and fashion
able women admired her, she became reck-
less and did dance that was partly cons
tortion, lacking in grace, and altogether
indecent
DANCING THAT HAS MERIT.
There are four dancers in a 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 whlrling 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 q banjo
and plays tune on it with dainty be-
gemmed fingers. Then three Of them come
down on two feet; the other keeps up
strumIning, 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 eccentricities have departed
four tough boys and girls come on and do
waltz and schottische after the fashion of
CHIMNEY aud Mag. This is clever and funny
and both or these are far beyond any of the
Carmencita or "Boom-de-ay" people.
THE LoTTIE COLLINS CRAZE.
Speaking of the last suggest the person
who claims to be the originator OF the "Ia~
ra-ra," and who vulgarly enough calls her.
self Miss Lottie Collins" Miss Lottie Col
Inns would at first glance be entered on the
stud book as Jagged" 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 cork
screw curl5, suggestive Of nothing else but
the stiff wooden dolls of ones childhood.
A GALLERY GODS ESTIMATE.
The best criticism have heard Of her
was given to me by gallery boy of long
experience, whom l sought for an opinion.
SAID be, st is an outrage HE prefaced
this with word beginning with large D
and ending with a small one, which don't
care to use as 1t 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 alll She walks around the
stage two or three times, hobs her head in
between her legs, rears it back, and sings
her verses; she don't kick, she don't dance;
you doh't see no pretty petticoats on her
like you do on Lizzie DAILY, and I'm dead
tired of 1t. She belongs on the Bowery;
Broadway is too good for her, and if she is
being paid 5000 night, she's got the softest
snap in this country, and I'll be- here he
used that word again If I'll pay rs
SCAts W see ueF dk6Iu. I'm q ROln 10 give
me money to see the American girls what
really knows how to dance Look at Annie
flx!ey! Look ct Lottie Look at all them
girls wot did the serpentine dance And if
you are IN for FORMERS and it's dsncln',
give me Van0ni! She's got some grace
eoout her; she's got a kind of way that
makes all of Us boys think; Hay. haip't you
nice little womanp But that there Col
Inns woman! The best thing she can do is
t. take the ship home to England; the
Bowery wouldn't look at her-at least, only
Tor cree. knows what I'm talRn' about,
fur l goes TO see every thing, and | says to
meself, that first night, says L: Miss Lottie
Collins, you had better sail for the fair
shores of Albiomp After this, he swag-
Rered out, and felt that he had voiced my
sentiments, and that no matter what said
/, wouldn't be as much to the point as was
the view Of this gentleman, who, for num-
Der OF years, had seen everything had had
decided opinions about what be saw"
THEATER's 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 thRn they do for the entire Or
chestra. The swell set do not really decide
" neither the play is going to be a success or
not; it is the boys, whose ages range from
~ TO ~, who occupy the gallery, and the
men who do all the mysterious things be-
mud the stage, that settle this question.
\ GU pay 81 for your seat, my friend, and
the boy upstairs pays 25 cents, but he is the
better critic, and he does more for or against
the play than you do, although you think
you know so much 1t is always the voice
OF the people, not the voice OF the few, that
makes play a success or a failure.
woMAN's NEWEST NIGHTRoBEs.
1t is somewhat interesting for the woman
out for her fall shopping to be shown paja-
mas In which to sleep. She looks at them
with curiosity; the neck and the wrists are
uimmed with lace and ribbons, but other
Wise they are duplicates OF those displayed
10 the haberdashers shops. Some women,
overwhelmed by bravery. have bought
lhem; whether they have ever worn them
Ut not am unable to say. Butt for one
protest against this inroad on the essentially
.ysoninlne belonging-the night dress. | can't
tplhk OF anything more unlike a woman
tuan pranclng around in pantaloons and
!scEet. There is one thing certain-and
'uls INTENDED for warning for the world at
.arge - that the woman who wears
sueh will in case of fire be
le'o ed last Of all, for the gay
anu gallant firemen, concluding she is boy,
VII let her wait. Nothing is so pretty.
nosuing so dainty in underwear as the
eternal feminine, and even the women who
Eve eve themselves over to tailor-made gowns