New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-14

tons and talk. half in French and half in English
directed at the audience. the Interpreter, the ac-
companist or anybody who happened to be In sight
Nobody detected any Of hat sad, desolate look
which she has been said to when she frst
appears on the stage Perhaps she puts 1t on with
her stage clothes. At any rate she showed none
OF it yesterday. She seemed simply the happiest
and merrest OF person trying to entertain
a few friends.
The Interpreter said that she would sing a song
the name Of when might be Translated The Extra
Modest Girls" He did not translate the song itself
but he said that 1t about peculiar type OF
oirl that had been fostered In France by peculiar
type Of literature. a girl who was 80 modest that
she walked her own eyelids." Mile Guiibert
told him that ne talked like an angel and then
she sang the song After she had sung 1t she
asked the interpreter explain The Drunken
Woman" The Interpreter said that drunkenness
was not common in France especially among wom-
en- This song he said was intended TO sho" the
horror and sadness of the condition OF the drunken
woman. and plea for charitable consiuera-
ton OF her case and OF the dstresses and sorrows
that must have driven her to It, In singing TINS
song Mile Guilbert indicated. rather than initiated
the drunkenness OF the subject, and the action
which accompanied the staazas was performer WIN
much taste and dramatic effect.
She sang Grandmother The Virgins. Inc
Students" and by Moonlight" each being preceded
by its little explanation from the interpreter When
the things in it that might sound improper were not
really improper all. whereupon the audenGe leit
much comforted Mile Guilbert said that TINS Was
Cisse LOTUS song meaning. or course, the one
that Cissc Lotus used In giving an lflld Oh ~
her And really an exact likeness 10 MISS LOTUS
imitation formed half the enjoyment OF nei sns-
inC OF the song. The most impressive ana draihe
song of the whole series La Pierreuse An
impromptu Trench academy was formed III ny
audience 10 decide whether the word 'Pleffeus'
vas transatable and IL finally decided tnat, u
vas not Al any rate, the song Is about a girl VINO
goes 10 see her lover beheaded. Each stanZa ends
with q queer little signal cali AS she pronounce
the cry Il is sometimes merry, sometimes lrlSht-
cned and the last time II has the very SOUND Oh
the slip and glide OF the falling knle OF the suo
tine. 80 INT, - ,..., -.
self 10 BE- induced to sing ''l-inger Longer LII y
I'M English Whatever may be charged against ner
own songs, this is innocent 10 the verge OF
sir1nljcitv or perhaps little over the verge. she
said that she was going give an Imitation or an
Fngsh music han singer, but Il rather a
broad caricature than an imitation. IL was run
nier however, than everything else she had done
nut together. She cOntrived TO put Into her sing
ing of II a buresque OF the English music hal
singer her own all but unutterable contempt Tor the
sfInldty Of the song Itself and something at the
ZANE time that attractive and her own.
II Is OF nOssihle. of course 10 say Wnetncr MAe
Cubert will prove gratifying TO an American audi
ence When NJ. Paulus came here few years ago
he was thoroughly 50. but the effects which he pro-
duced were more by action and facial expression
and less by words than Mile. Guilberts must be
II is 10 be feared that only two or three or the
songs sung yesterday would prove thoroughly satis-
factory 10 q ar1e NewYOrk audience. She has
Effectiveness and dramatic force. Much will depend
on her selection Of songs and all VIII depend; as II
always does In such cases. on how the audience
when the tirie comes, chooses TO take her.