St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-09
GOTAAM'S GAIETIES,
There Is a Strong Flavor of
Rollicking Deviltry About
Them.
4 Reputation for Naughtiness
Is Conducive to Stage
Success.
Double-Jointed Leg Action Is
the Popular Style Of ORA
MATES.
Fashion, However, Still Claims
the Chief Attention Of
Women.

NEW YORK, Oct. 6.-Under the carnal
influence of the ''Black Crook" and Lot
tie Collins, New York is enjoying its
evenings and having what appears to
be very fair time. Each of these
Rmusements contains good deal the
spirit of the other, and both have very
strong flavor of rollicking deviltry, so
we may feel that Gotham has quite re-
covered from the attack of christian
Endeavor" which it was Frustrated
with only couple of months or SO ago.
Strange, isn't it, and surprisingly
true, that thing only has to obtain
reputation tor naughtiness to become a
success? The BLACK Crook" is, after
all, only tumble of Faust, Macbeth,
Tony Pastor and Alhambra painted
throughout with a scheme of color,
modelled Oh that of that great spectacu-
lar artist and manager, Augustus Har-
lis.
1t is only this. for the plots are obscure
md cut up into such little bits, such
long distance apart, that it is really too
much for the average mind to connect
them together and endeavOr to get at
result.
But no one wants plot in a comic
opera, as long as there are plenty of
legs, and when those legs. Of which the
audience gets quite its moneys worth,
do quite unusual and seemingly impoS-
sible things, why, what New York dude
of the most advanced tastes would be
bo utterly vOraciouS as to require plot
rs we'll?
There is enough high kicking in it
for the most blase front-row bald-head.
No woman, even If she began kicking
In her earliest infancy, and continued
kicking through her whole career, with
the very briefest intervals for rest, could
learn to kick higher than the four young
ladies in the French Empire Quadrille,
that seems to be the great feature in
the BLACK Crook"
These same young ladies. whose
limbs, while apparently made on the
same plan as the rest of ours, have the
startling doubled 0intedness of wooden
dolls, sit fiat down, with their legs at an
angle of 60 deg, like very loose COM
passes.
The Lottie Collins "Ta-ra-ra Boom
decay" ballet Is also full of action, prin-
cipally leg action, while the very COM
mOnplace words that have done duty
since the rage for the doggerel fist be-
gan do duty again.
Meanwhile the New Workers., when
not at 1.-The Black Crook" are looking
at LOttie and wondering at her musll-
room popularity. The New Workers
profess to see very little in Lottie. They
say she thinks too much of herself and
places too high a value on a series of
kicking demonstrations that after all is
not SO wonderful. They forget that
"beauty lies in the eye OF the behOider''
and 1.-THE success of the jest in the ear
Of him who hears it," So Lottie kicked,
and her kicking struck responsive
chord in the bosom of the audience,
and they straightway elected her the
queen kicker. New Workers are broad
minded ard welcome trans Atlantic
stars. If they are disappointed in the
brilllancy of this one, they must bear in
mind that English humor and American
Are poles apart.
We are already plunged into new
style, and that is the Empire. There Is
hardly any need to say that. but every
body doesn't know that Redfern was
the first man in New York that intro
duced it.
Very sumptuous velvet capes are also
being worn. These are made
with little crink!y cape about
the throat, and full cape hang
Ing from the shoulders in straight gen
srOuS folds. Some of these velvet capes
are surmounted by braided capes which
merely touch the angle of the shoulder.