Evening star., 1894-04-04
MISS KATE FIELDS MONOLOGUE,
Listened to by a Large and Fashion
able Audience.

able Audience.
Miss Kate Field appeared last night at
Builders Exchange Hall in her musical
monologue. Eyes and Ears In London"
1t was carriage audience, and its size
and sympathy inspired the lecturer to her
best work. The personality Of the speaker
was the magnet. Miss Field has a versatil-
ity of resource. adaptability of temperament
and felicity Of expression that form a hap
py combination and make her lectures un-
usually attractive. Her sentences were in
laid with humor and wit, and her epigram-
matte phrases sparkled during the entire
talk. During the time she introduced sew
eral songs and proved herself a pleasing
singer. The program was opened by
piano solo by Miss Amy Hare. who played
with her usual determination Of technique
and was roundly applauded.
Miss Field opened by saying that the
the American language, but that 1t really
would be impossible to wander all over
London in the brief time during which she
would have the floor. She said that because
she would indulge in a little chan at the
expense of our English cousin the audience
must not suppose that she did not cherish
a fond love for dear old mother England.
Neither must they think that she was about
to deliver a lecture; she did not even know
that there was method in her madness. She
then, instead Of ploughing over the ocean.
took her listeners up in a balloon, anchored
and waited till England rolled around. The
first thing they saw was nothing. She d.
lated on the question of fog and said that
an Englishman had his being partly In
a chimney and partly in a bath. England
with its history, greatness. castles and
traditions. roads. scenery and parks would "a
only had climate. The island ought to be
moved.
1t would be a good idea to bring 1t over
and set it up in the Chesapeake bay, where
1t would be contiguous to Washington. She
said that early rising was not the invention
of an Englishman. 1t was opposed to the
English institutions, and what was con-
connection with her description Of English
weather, she sang the song, "Oh, Lovely
Umbrella" composed for her by Mr.. George
Grossmith. She next talked Of cabs. and
four-wheeed growler, called so because 1t
made more noise to the square inch than
any other vehicle on or off of EARTH and the
cab which had been called the gondolier OF
London, and it did travel in a liquid of mud
The cabs of London were bad; so bad. that
they would astonish anybody but New
Yorker. She introduced a good many anec-
dotes illustrative of the unchristian char
self while looking at Nine. Tussaud's wax
works. The song, Mother, Is My Collar
Clean" followed. She paid particular at
tention to the English dinner party, and
said that after the animals were fed the
people had to be amused, and then she pro-
ceeded to show how they were amused. She
said some delightful things about the clever
Englshman, some true things about the
American snob, and made everybody laugh
at the Englishmans ignorance of America
Her mimicry of an English lady who had
volunteered to sing brought down the house.
During the intermiSsion Miss Hare played a
piano arrangement of Faust and did IL
artistically. In the second part, Miss Field
continued to mock mankind and show up
the faults of women. The evening had a
Grossmith glow, and Miss Field won new
laurels by her excellent work.