The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-12

that she is neither in gold nor in purple the
left side Of the turning, revolving, gyrat1Dg
tableau has tecJme, by the studied Hanipu-
lauon Of those flashing lights beaIning upon
her from all directions, ms'ange OF green,
puDie, old gold aud a mixture OF peecocks
tail and rainbcw which deaes description,
while the right side-it was the night side
second ago-is an equally surprising and
pretty Kaleidoscope combination.
by the waving of her arms, holding n
each hand a fold of her light gauzy silk
dress, or, to be more correct, draplng, she
gives the effect of a hundred harmless. play
full serpents disportinZ themselves for the
pleasure OF the oninokers. There Is little or
nothing OF what might be called feshiness
about this portion OF the dance-not SEM
blance Of high kicking. 1t falls entirely
within the realms OF the delicate and beau
tIful, making demands only on the refined
and artistic In tina spectators. The nrst two
minutes of this Partisan attraction might be
called merely very clever posing with
electric Light effects 1t is a wonder that
Carmeucita never adopted this adjunct.
OFF AND ON IN 4 BLAZE OF GLORY.
The stage suddenly opens. or gives way,
and Miss Fuller falls out Of it or down
through it, at least that is the impression
the sudden turning of Of the lights gives
right in what seems to be- the middle Of the
act. In moment she reappeaTs. Flashing
fuIl upon the stage again the lights reveal
the dancer in what look like tue robes of
al Important japanese functlonary. She
parades down the front, and one hears the
French spectators call out TO each other
their expressions of approval OF the charm
ing picture that presents those fairy gar
ments waved to ana fro to hide and display
woman's figure. A score Of cleverly con-
ceived movements are shown under the
brilliant flashing of TIE electric lights and
q 10 rr,A rtrA ha yfsr9A
illustration of melody. light and motion
combined again fades from view with the
turning of of the blaziug streams of the
miniature aurora borealis, TO which the
dance, il such the performance can be
called, owes almost its entire charm.
This time 1t is the "PapeeyoD,n which is
the nearest can come 10 spelling in Eug-
lish the euphoDic French word for butterfly.
What picture 1t is A great glorious
butterfly, its wings spread all but takes its
feathery, huttering career right there be-
fore you on the stage. The Fren n specta-
tors call to each other all over the house,
"magnihquep tires graceusem and
"Splendide"
Again the scene is q dark one and again
the pointed bursts Of electric light food the
stage, and the enchanted webs OF silk, the
skilled hands and the trained mAnipulatlons
of the successful performer throw their
spells, and onlookers float from what seem
to be the winding spirals Of the Eiffel tower
60 the sunny meadows where plash tiny
rivulets, haunted by many hued pspillons
and dazzling winged dragon flies. to the
ocean side with its booming surf. There is
more than a suggestion Of the huge, sound
Ing waves, with their changing shades and
white crests, and the hokle flight Of the
dainty butterfly is so well borne out it be-
comes ell but reality
The lights are not shut off this time. The
dancer dies away in the dim retreats at the
rear Of the big stage. One last pose she
makes gathering the filmy wisp of gauzs
that seems as If it might have been spun
from spiders web, her last and Nghtest
costume OF the evening, in both her hands
and holding the veil Ike texture close
against her form, she throws her head back
over one OF her shoulders in such a way
that her face is presented TO the audience,
though her back Is toward them. Miss
Fuller has TO content herself with thanking
her applaudinR audience in pantomime.
is IT A SUCCESS, AFTER ALA
Now this all sounds ike great success.
and yet there is another side to the story, as
/ intimated at the start After It is over
one has a chance to obtain the deliberate
judgment OF the spectators. And they are
not apparently enthusiastic. The general
expression might be summarized some what
thus: "It is rather pretty, but it is disap-
pointing" could md no we'll informed
person who pretended to understand the
engaging Of Miss Fuller for three years by
soconseryative management as that OF the
es-Bergeres has always shown itself
to be.
How can disappointing" performance
be success for so long a time? ! am re-
minded Of the success OF Carmenclta in
America. She had her ardent admirers
and so has Miss Fuller here, no doubL-but
it Is unquestionable that the overwhelming
majority Of spectators felt and expressed
disappointment after her dance was over
Do they go back to be disappointed over
agsinl Or is there a charm in such per-
formAnces which survive the disappoint-
mentl These dances simulate the play of
the emotions, of the affections, Of love.
There is a disappointment IN love, but
nobody ever gets enough Of it. Have these
sensuous dancers copied passion so closely
as to gain the secret Of its haunting per-
sistencel IL they have they should be
credited with genuine scientific discovery,
and no man should begrudge them the
money they make out of IT.
ROBERT K. TURNBULL