The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-04-04
MUSIC AND DRAMA.
She Turned Flip Flaps.


'Tm all black and blue turning somer-
saults," was the startling announcement
that came from the lips of a pretty young
woman at the Hagan yesterday, says the
st. Louis Republic. The statement
seemed less shocking upon learning the
name of the speaker, Miss Jennie West.
During the st. Louis engagement of
ssSuperba," Miss Ramsden has filed the
soubrette part. She possesses unique
accomplishment of which few soubrettes
can boast-the turning of fip-faps. Per-
haps she is the only woman in theatre
cal company who can and does turn
complete somersault on the stage. Miss
Ramsden's f1ip-fiaps were a feature of the
performance. But during the week she
left the company in order to join her hus-
band, who is with Nat Goodwin, just re-
turned from the Pacific coast. Her part.
and with it the task of fip-fapping, fell
to Miss West This young woman is dill
igent, and light on her feet, and she un-
dertook to turn somersaults too. But
her efforts to elevate herself from the
stage were not complete success.
Thanks to buoyant disposition, the ele-
walton was accomplished with considera-
BILE ease; but the return to earth was too
emphatic
Suppose you let the somersaults
Alone" said the manager, sympathetical-
= o4e will affond RI that
You can't afford to make yourself black
and blue, you know"
And so Miss West has abandoned flip
flaps. This recalls how, according to
Don Piatts old paper, the Washington
Capitol, Clara Louise Kellogg was tempt
ed to essay this acrobatic feat. As the
theory ran, Miss Kellogg and her mother
sat in a box at Ford's Opera House
watching the pranks of Fox as Humpty
Dumpty. Miss Kellogg's mother had
unbounded confidence in her daughter.
Mrs. Kellogg thought there was no per-
Torrance by human being that Clara
Louise could not accomplish. The prima
donna as she sat in the box applauded
frequently. Finally Fox turned series
of f1ip-faps, and Clara Louise screamed
with delight. But her mother only said:
"Pm sure you could do that, Clara
Louise, if you had the right kind of
clothes. and nobody was looking"
But Clara Louise didn't.
Peck's Bad Boy.
Tonight Peck's Bad Boy will be seen
at Portland Theatre. This season new
songs, dances and witticisms keep the
piece bright and entertaining. So well
known play, whose mirth has amused
SO many Portland people needs no ex-
tended notice to secure it crowded
house here.
Imperial Mandolin Quartette.
Miss Annie Frank Libby, the accom-
plished and handsome harper, who will
play at the Imperial Mandolin and Gui-
tar Quartette concert, tomorrow evening,
is well known to Portland people, being
a native of this city.
Duff Opera Company.
The sale of seats will begin at Stock
BRIDGES today for the Duff Opera Com
pany performances. In Mr.. Duff's COM
pany is the brilliant young artist, as
handsome a woman as she is an admira-
BILE singer, Miss Helen Bertram. Miss
Bettina Gerard is also said to be very
charming singer. Among the men-folk
are Mr.. w. H. Clarke, late of the Boston
Ideals, and MI. Richard F. Carroll, who
is quite well known here.
Notes.
Mr.. Robert Rexdale will deliver his
illustrated lecture, entitled christopher
Columbus and the Worlds Fair at
Steinway Hall, Boston, Tuesday after
noon, April 18th. Miss Jennie King
Morrison, contralto, will assist.
The last recital of the season by the
Rossini Club will take place at Kotz-
SEMINAR Hall, Thursday, April 7th, at II
O'Clock.
Mr.. Hermann Kotzschmar conducted
the performance of ''The Light of Asiah
by the Lewiston society, Thursday eve
ming. DR.. III. M. Nickerson assisted.
The Death Rate
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