Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1896-01-19

1t seems that indecent lanFuaugc In
public place IL entirely proper II ut
tered In a tongue other than the COM
mon vernacular, for in New York audi
ences made up of the .,o-called upper
circles listen complacently to what, II
uttered In English, would cause the
speedy arrest of the offender. And
the fact that the lips which were thus
polluted In the utterance, belonged to a
woman wouldn't make the 'hurry-up"
wagon driven any more slowly TO the
police station. Yet Yvette Gullcert liz
paid $1,000 per week for this very thing
by an enterprising manager of n mu-
sic hall. And when n young woman, in
the space of nve short years makes
her way from behind the counter OF n
French shop with n weekly stipend
of hand full of francs, 10 notorlety If
not celebrity-to celebrity before the
foot-lights, ones curiosity ms to who
she is. what she does and how she
does II is naturally somewhat aroused.
Hvette Guiloert Is French woman.
not singer. but a dancer" who seems
to be curiosity. a freak who has prov
en- such sensation In New York, where
she recently made her American de-
but. where her performances command
such handsome remuneration, that she
seems to present an interesting sub
tect for investigation. Accordingly we
pebun 10 investigate and thlN IL ner
story, as we have baen able to discover
II:
She was five years saleswoman in
the f"Printemps" To-day she has u
magnificent apartment In Paris. n love-
ly country home, IA neat little nest-egg
of about $4,000. and is making money
so fast that the mere contemplation OF
1t makes the brains of most women
who work for living fairly spin.
How does she do Il? BY her magnlf-
cent voice? She hasn't any voice. BY
exhibiting her great physical beauty 2
She Is ugly. so they say, 'as mud
fence" with red hair. sallow skin and
pug nose. BY gorgeously arranging her
fine figure? She hasn't any figure TO
speak of and dresses abominably. so
those who have seen her assert. Her
special gift seems to he mimicry and
facial expression. II Is said that dur
Ing the lunch hour at the Printemps
she used TO amuse her companions by
initiating the well-known performers
of the cafes chantants. She finally con-
cluded that she was wasting her tall
ents, II not her sweetness, ION the
desert air. by combining herself to 80
narrow circle. so she concluded to
go upon the stage, that Is to perform
at the cafes chantant.
with no figure. no beauty of coun-
| tenance and no voice, II might be asked
| be successful In such career. Yvette
apparently knew what she was about,
| and her subsequent rise to eminence
| in her own peculiar line of perform
ance. that she did not put too high a
value upon her stock in trade. She
knew full well that she had wonderful
| capacity for chanting with unblushing
| effrontery obscene songs and she knew
| too, where TO find an audience. So she
| piled up money in Paris, and has now
| come to America to pile up more.
| There is a great big difference be-
tween her audience In Paris and her
audience In New York, In the former
place II would be impossible to discover
| decent woman In the audience where
she sings cher performance may by
poetic license be termed singing and OF
| course where only Indecent women are
| present, no really decent man can be
| found. On the contrary. not only de-
| cent men. but decent women and young
| girls attend these concerts" In New
| York. The only explanation liz that
| that these decent people do not under
| stand one word OF the indecent song
| which Yvette IL uyering. they are fasci.
| mated, perhaps, without knowing why,
| by her wonderful facial contortions.
There are a number OF men and wo-
men In the theatrical profession who
| New York or any other of the large
cities. for that matter. and play &c
crowded houses at high prices year IN
/ and year out, yet these same artists
must needs come to Fort Worth &c
make or mar their regulations. so crit
ical Cd are our audiences. Alexander
Salvinl was 1t seems one Of these un
fortunates ~. notwithstanding the fact
that he gives a better Hamlet thar
Irving, Forrest or Keene, and tn,
theater-going people all over the South
and In every other town in Texas rec
ognized II as such and showed their APP
probation OF this eminent artist-stai
by packed houses. and Just criticism
OF the .ork he did in the roles given.
Mr.. salvlni has our sympathy. Pool
man. he had to come to Fort Worth ts
iind he was losing his "brogue.' twh'
ever heard tell OF Latin with {
brogue-swe always supposed II belong
ed only to Irishmen) and that HI
sawed air. and "ranted." We did mo-
agree with Mr. salvini's severe critics
In this: neither did we consider hin
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