The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-06-19
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"The skirt dance is graceful o, yes
| Rapid movement, great flexibility and an
artistic appreciation of the value of dra-
perry, together with an artfully artless air
| Of abandon. The steps count for little. A
toe dancer can easily do both the serpen-
tine and skirt dance. They demand really
| no more grace than is possessed by any
coryphee Ia the front rank. Do you know
one skirt or serpentine dancer who has the
| skill requisite for the toe dancel l am sure
you do not.
1.-THE range of taste In the matter of toilet
has many advantages in these modern
dances. While apparently revealing they
do conceal 80 much. Amelia Glover
employs eighty yards Of tulle on her under
skirts alone. She wears three, made Of the
softest china silk. They have each two
very full fiounces OF tulle, both on the
upper and under sides. The skirt OF her
dress measures fourteen yards in width and
is of some soft, light material. The first
underskirt ia always very prudently caught
| together just below the knee, SO that how
ever daring the kick with which she
fascinates her admirers her skirts never fall
out Of place.
"a premiere's skirts are constructed on
number of well fitted Jokes, in the same
way. She has trunks made especially for
carefully spread out and nothing else is
ever packed with them.
VERY EMBARRASSING.
1.-THE process OF dressing is necessarily an
affair of great care. The under tights must
he SO adjusted that the slices are sure 20 be
in their proper places. The silk tights ought
never to be put on without careful in
spection. A broken stitch, the prelude to a
Jacobs ladder, can work ruinous havoc,
Imagine, just as one gets her cue, perceiv-
ing running stitch. Before the dance is
finished it viii have run up and down many
times. The tights will be wreck. How
can one smile effectively under such CTR
cumstances2
40, yes, the smile Is an Indispensable part
Of the performance, and it must be a smile
that wins, that is personal not bit OF
mechanism. It is an art, certainly, mon
sieur.
There are many things that may occur
to rattle a danseuse, but nothing quite 80
disturbing as a sudden change of musical
conductors. We rehease with the orches-
ira and the regular conductor adapts the
time to our movements, holding the notes
for a telling poise or accelerating them for
a dizzy whirl. IL from any cause his place
has been filed by a stranger who has not
yet studied our points and conducts accord
ing TO written time it is almost enough to
run uhuCo-
1.-THE applausei All, monsieur, it is an
inspiration. 1t raises US quite off our feeE,
till we float in the clouds.
Tho costumess OF course a premiere
provides her own aud they are not mex
pensive il they are abbreviated. For a
grand ballet they are designed by an artist
and executed by a skillful costumer from
his plates. l may add, in a whisper, that
for most OF the great spectacular plays pro-
duoed In America the imported costumes so
extensively advertised are produced second
hand from the Alhambra in London.
Now. monsieur, l think you have solved
every mystery, but l must beg that in COM
municating your discoveries to a curious
public you viii conceal my name, for fear
my sisters in the profession would rudely
resent the revelation Of the stage secrets"
1t is sad TO deprive the readers of that
most pleasing Information. They will
doubtless readily divine that it was the se~
crets of her sisters, not her own, so
candidly revealed. To Improve" made
moiselle would be ito paint the lily"
GUsTAVE BINET,