The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-14
GAIETY GIRL CRAZE
NEW DISEASE THAT RESEMBLES
THE SKIRT DANCE IN SYMPTOMS.
Editor Richardson's Stage Gossip
from New York-Notable Local At
fractions This Week.

How many theater-goers i'm this city
know anything about 9Th Gaiety Girls"
those audacicusly chic footlight favorites.
who are just now turning the heads Of all
the amusemert-loving p~opulace of New
York; II is, perhaps, not really necessary
that indianapolis should know a great deal
Of this latest theatrical craze. because
there is little prospect of having such a
company at any of the local theaters for
some time to come, but. at the same time,
the advent in America OF such a production
as that now playing at Days Theater,
New York. leaves its imprint on the dra-
matte business of the country. Sooner or
later "Gaiety Girls" will start TO explore
the interior and IL Is not improbable that
house managers Will then turn up their
nnancial noses at a company which pre-
somes to give a show without at least one
"Gaiety Girl as a card. No single stage
fad has had a greater popularity than the
skirt dance, yet the skirt dance was I'M
heard Of until Sylvia Grey, Nellie Farren
and Lefty Lind in a maze of
plated skirts and a wealth of
hlmy lace and gauze petticoats,
with bewildering steps, graceful kicks and
all the suppleness of human fawns. danced
AiNO ~ ntdIlS VI III DuDlC Il
few years ago. The legacy which the above
named trio of English girls left America
set the brains of every manager in a whirl,
and every woman who could lift her pointed
toe on a level with her pretty chin soon
found plenty of work and a fat salary.
Even society was dragged into the vortex
as far as ii could well go. and adopted the
plated skirt to the everlasting regret OF
every woman VINO ever owned one.
and those who have come over from Lon.
don this season are little more than a re-
vised edition of the original. They are
all the Haunted English stage beauties.
They have TO be beauties. A physically
perfect woman on the stage is worth more
of real good artists minus good looks.
Beauty IS the touchstone of Indian Jasper
the stage IS a veritable throne from where
she commands the homage of the multitude.
So the Gaiety girls are all beauties-be-
witehing from the mute Marguerite curl
that adorns their low classic foreheads TO
the well-turned. graceful ankles that one
moment hide beneath the 1ounces of cost
~ gowns and in the next are seen describ-
ing new curves i'm the ambient air. The
Gaiety girl made her bow to America three
weeks ago. II was the occasion of the
SWEETEST full-dress audience that has thus
far turned out in Gotham this season.
Young men and old, perfumed and deco
rated. wore their best feathers, while the
ladies went to the expense Of ordering spe-
cial costumes. In the first act "the Gaiety
Girls all wore party costumes fresh from
Paris. All the latest designs of the famed
Felix and Worth were here on
a lawn party burlesque and the way the
girls snapped their ribbons and laces in the
different dances was a caution. The second
Riviera, and all the girls appeared in stun
ming bathing costumes. The sensation was
American city than New York. Every one
of the eleven pretty performers made eleven
times eleven mashes and an entire squad
the London fairies tripped to their car
riages after the performance.
ssThe Amazons- mt the Grand.
The performance of A. w. Pinero's idYllic
comedy. 'The Amazons," under Charles
Frohman's management, at the Grand OPP
era House tomorrow Night, will be among
the most important ttkatrica, events of the
season. An interesting feature of this pro-
ducfion IS the fact that tombstone Ben
nett. who made Jane" famous all over
the country. will appear as Lady Tomasin
Be1turbet. The Story Of the play is very
simple. Lady Castlejordan has three very
charming daughters. but wishes they were
boys. She pins her faith to Drawn and mus
Gle. and so, TO make the best of a bad mat
ter, she dresses her daughters in boys
clothing and teaches them to ride, hunt,
smoke. ana talk exactly as II they were
boys. OF course, this results in some very
funny complications. Naturally. these boy
girls fall in love with som real man, and
ere. Of course. wooed and won as all other
girls have been since the time of Eve. The
way Mr.. Pinero has contrasted. the people
in 1.-The AmaZons" Is delicious. He has no
superior in dramatic literature in drawing
Characters. and the characters in The
AmaZons' might have stepped out of Dick
ems or -hackeray.
Miss tombstone Bennett makes a very
pretty and hcydenish boy, leaps a barred
gate. smokes cigarettes and carries her
fowling piece with an air that is delight
full Her figure lends itself well to male at
tire. and she makes an engaging picture
besides acting with vivacity and rare dis
erection. The last act OF the play is the
Castlej0rdan gymnasium, where the ladies,
under the direction of Sergeant" Shutter
CMiss Louise RiaD are made to practice.
tombstone Bennett turns out to be the only
In a truly manly fashion. The girls and
their sweethearts Engage in a dance, and
are surprised in the act by their mother
and the rector. but peace is restored. the
bows turn girls and all ends happily.
The sale of seats viii begin az the Grand
Opera House boy Office tomorrow morn
ing. and the Infringement particularly de-
sires that the audience during the engage
ment of The Amazons" will be seated be-
fore the rise OF the curtain, as the action
OF the play begins at once without prologue
or. Introduction. and therefore late Corners
1oSe the drift OF the story. The engagement
IS for three nights and a Wednesday mat
Tree.