St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-02
De BREM0NT'S GOSSIP
Bellew and Potter in Zola's
Play Of "Therese
Raquin."
Unchaste and Gruesome, but
Still a Sort Of Sue
cess. ~
517, pft .,..,-..'
Some Interesting Notes About
The Prevailing Winter
Fashions.
The Tendency Is Still To-
ward Widening of Coats
and Skirts.

NEW YORK, Dec. 2S.-That gruesome
and unsavory play "Therese RaQuin,"
by that most gruesome and unsavory
author lola, is, by Its most 1orbiddng
qualities, attracting and magnetizng
quite enough people to suppoat and ell
courage it. 1t is MOI bid, it is unchaste,
it is full of uninteresting, middle-class
dizziness and unhappy ill-health. But
it is a challenge to conven-
tlonal laws Of proprety which
is only another way of saying
it goes. But the fact that it is the
play and not the acting that offends is
one reason that why it still continues.
MIR. Kyrle Bellew is we'll known male
beauty. Although not heroic in stature,
he has fine, interesting head, and his
voice is full Of deep musical vibrations.
In his moments of passion he is at his
best. Mrs. Potter is almost too cold in
expression and too rigid in out
line to impersonate the wild,
wanton. strange character of Therese.
She has delicately chiseled face,
and shows in the bridal scene that
she is all artist. The fire light falls
with good effect upon her orange ORA
pe1eS and streaming hair. 1t is In this
scene that she disrobes, and here those
who expect to have an opportunity or
condemning the indecency of the per-
Torrance will be disappointed and feel
inclined to want their money back.
1t was probably not this action that
Boston objected to- there Is absolutely
nothing in it, The tone of the play,
CHASTITY, unhealthy and sensual, without
one f0rcible, pure character to balance
the guilty and sulied pair, is what peo-
pie with far inferior morals 10 the Bos-
tonians might object to.
The fashions still show tendency TO
widen, both at the termination of coats,
capes and skirts. 1t is not such pretty
fashion as what we have been wearing.
its only advantage being apparently
that 1t gives the effect of very small
waist. Its disadvantages are the I'M
mense quantity of material required in
the gowns, and the shapelessness which
such an excess of material produces.
Redfern is now giving the principal
part of his attention to evening gowns,
which are all trimmed about the shout
ders to an alarming extent. A VIDE
berthe of one material and color lined
with another is exceedingly fashlona-
BILE. These are terminated at the breast
with bow or ornament. Evening
gowns are cut after the manner OF old
pictures OIL. the royalisJ period, opening
very widely on the shoulders; indeed,
some of the latest gowns give strong
symptoms of slipping down. The deep
frill sometimes takes the place OF the
berthe, and for this the richest laces
are called into requisition. Elbow
sleeves made with puff, finished Off
with lace or silk, are the most popular:
but another style that bids fair to be
popular is the shoulder frill. which
stands out horizontally from the shout
der, but does not hide that most beauti-
full portion of woman'S arm. the curve
above the shoulder. All evening bodices
end with a band. or series OF bands,
fastened either with bows or buckles.
The trimming on skirts is ascending, 1t
continues about halfway up, and con-
sists of rows of trimming which widens
as it aScends.