The morning times., 1896-01-21
MADE PRISONER By YVETTE
Dainty Chanteuse Captured Society
with Her Risque Songs.
Return of Mime. Suns Gene"-'.A
Fatal Card and "a Straight Tip"
at National and Grand.

l. Washington and Yvette Guilbert met
each other last evening at Metzerott Hall
Yvette wore ball gown or pale blue
| fiowered silk, not particularly low cut,
with an abundance OF ducnesse lace EN-
corsage, long black gloves and green vel
| vet shoulder straps.
Guiibert's hair is red OF is IL auburn ,hel
| eyes are Diue-gray, she has a fine nose, high
ioreheau, from whicn her Queen i.iIza-
\ Deth nair Is swept back Doiuiy, IL well mold
eu chm and good, mobile hps.
1t perhaps occurred TO good many
| last evening To compare Guiiuert as SHE
walked on the stage with the virgin queen
| as we have had ner Impressed us III
n eniiworth. The parallel between her
| ana the daughter OF AuS Henry VII ends
right there. This has not prevented Wash
ington ana the new star rronlforming "a mu-
| tual auniirat ton society.
| Those VINO aid not attend the entertain
| nient may expect TO learn very little OF
GuiIbert from wnat can be saiu OF her and
about as much from what has already been
written about her claims as an artist.
IL is absolutely necessary to see The
| singer actress TO know what she is, what she
does and says and how she does and SD Us it.
| There Is only one of ber many great merits
which Is addressed to the ear and that is the
Illuminated meanings with which she invests
"piuo bg "a WIN III NdIitlJ VI tOuc
| and shading.
This aspotent To those who did not know
French in her interpretation OF "Linger
Longer Loo and Her Golden Hair Was
Hanging Down Her Back" The special
charm In her recitation OF these ballads, and
ii was only recitation, was the surprising
significance She extracted from the words,
more than from the ideas of the songs.
This wonderful power was naturally more
evident in her French m ma tprit
OF which were perhaps disappointment to
those who had expected Yvette to sing
always something vicious or sala ciors.
There was some Of that or this kind
there was quite enough in .'C'a fait tou jours
plaisir, in which there is a comparison of
thepleasures sofmarriageanda ndadreanIofloye. a
Her artistic touches were, however in
la Perreuse,' translated on the program
"a Taif," but which tells of the adventures
of female night prowler. Her word
pictures and expressions in this were mar
vellous and also in ''Clair de Lune,' which
was not on the program. Her best genre
piece was La Lisette,' i'll which GuiIbert
makes an old woman tell the story of her
youthful days. There was humor enough
for several songs N Les yierge."
Perhaps her Interpretation of la
Soulartle" was on level artisticaily with
La Pierreuse," the closing verse in the for
mer being exquisitely done. tits the actress
really in these songs that appeals to us
rather ihan the singer although her voice
rs one OF marvellous power. The music
of her songs is somewhat monotonous, sev-
eral or the refrainS suggesting chants from
II monastery.
There were others in the entertainment,
Mr.. Warwick Gayor, baritone, who sang
everything well: Mr.. Orlando Hartley, who
sang SuIlivan's THE Distant Shore" well;
Mr. PiZzareilp, pianist. and Miss Amy
Hartley and Mss Louise Engel.
Among the people in attendance were
Mrs. Lamont, with box party; Baron
Kettcier. and members of the German en-
basSy: Lady Pauncefote, Mrs. Brice, Miss
Pearce. Speaker Reed and Mrs. Reed, Rep
resentative Hill Of Connecticut and party
the Misses Mendonca. Mrs. Senator Hearst
and q large party, Senor de Lone and party,
NJ. and Madame Potenotre, and other
notablcs.
Nobody in the audience was visibly af-
fectcd by anything shocking Guilbert said
or did. There were very few young people
in the audience. that is, very young ladies',
but there wasn't mucn reason why they
: sheald- have not been there.
The funniest incident of the whole event
was that Speaker Reed got caught in the
door OF his carriage as he was hurrying
in to the show and it took two men TO as
sist him to the pavement. Upon what
meat has Caesar been feeding lately:" asked
wag in the crowd.