The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-27
too frivolous to me. They do not live

for purpose.
The Grotto of Stalacta is a good thing.
Imagine n beautiful cavern lined with
rock candy and faced with neapolitan
ice cream, then stalactites of pure lemon
ice and stalagmites of tutti frutti.
lighted up with powerful electric lights,
toned down with beautiful prismatic
tlnts of every hue. and torchlight pro-
cession of coryphees carrying large
wire banner!
After the appearance of Fielding, the
wonder. who has no connection with the
play, the four young ladies from Paris
come i'll and oblige. They dance nimbly
about at great rate, standing first on
one leg and then on the other. And yet
they were once poor girls living on the
Rue de Ia Bastille, with very light laundry
bills even then. 1t is wonderful how
other nations succeed in this country.
These four poor girls are now able to
earn good salary in few moments
playing leap frog and cutting up at n
great rate. Then all day they can go
and see the city of New York and the
pleasant animals i'll Central park. They
lead lives Of ease which come as near
that of the Pullman car conductor as
anything know of.
The Casino has come forward and re-
formed, hoping in the bright and glori-
Gus future to greet the good and great
and occupy the parquet along with Mr..
Palmer and Augustin DAILY. The
"Fencing Master" is one of the prettiest
and most romantic comic operas l have
ever seen. 1t is Italian, but not eff
tnSlVpIV hn
laid i'll Venice, and all the trading and
visiting seem to be done in gondolas.
Marie Tempest is the fencing master-a
daughter who has been reared as a son
by her old father till she is the most
sklllful swordsman in the place. She
becomes the court fencing master, and
during the campaign keeps the royal
fences in repair. Francesca, the young
swordsman, falls in love with Fortune.
the rightful heir to the throne Of Milan
and owner of u line of gondolas OH Fifth
avenue. He is sent on perilous mis-
sion, which it is hoped will result in his
lgnominious death, but Francesca re-
solves to go with him, and buying a new
Wade d. Butcher sword she goes with
him, Joyfully knitting several of his
prominent enemies and asking their
friends to send in the bill for same.
FORTUNE, however, loves another, but
not beyond his control, as she seems to
be bit of Il flirt, and in fact Francesca
encourages her to elope with a we'll
known Venetian proprietor of n trolley
line on the Grand canal He comes
every evening and plunks with his
Venetian plunler to IL low, sad refrain
referring to love that curls up and dies
for lack of proper attention. Francesca
is i'll favor of this matter and encourages
his passion, egging the young lady on,
and yet doing it quite squarely. Finally
Fortune agrees to meet this girl and
speak to her freely; also to tell her that
heisvery likely to come into possession of
the throne by showing his subjects that
they are at that time paying too high a
duty on wearing apparel, and that wages
have gone down, thus turning the tide
of added wealth, called the unearned
increment, into the pockets of the rich.
Francesca SO assists the other man
that he gets the young lady just before
Fortune arrives, and pretty soon there
has to be an explanation, and no longer
can the beautiful boy swordsman con-
ceal the fact that he loves Fortune and
would cheerfully die III his defense, as
he had almost done already several times.