The record-union., 1896-06-07

There is young woman in New York
who smiles and laughs on scientlhc
and physiological principles. 1t has
made her famous. She is Clara Lip
man. Her smile came to the front In
'The Strange Adventures of Miss
Brown
Miss Lipman insists that she learned
how to laugh and smile. She could
deliver a lecture or write book on
''How to Smile and then not exhaust
all she knows on the subject.
Almost any girl" she said, "who
wants a pretty laugh can get one as l
did, if she begins early enough. l had
an Instructor Louis Guttman, who
taught me to laugh just as he taught
me to talk. At that time I had no idea
of ever using 1t in business. 1t was
taught me just as any other finishing
lesson would be.
"a girl who had studied laughing
thoroughly, as Guttman taught IT,
might talk with her smiles and laughs
for half an hour, not say a word, and
yet run the gamut of every emotion.
First / was taught that I had d1a-
phragm. Then 1 liked to laugh. 1 en-
joy it. Once learn to laugh with the dia-
phragm and everything else is but a
matter of practice
The funny thing about it is that when
Miss Lipman laughs silent laugh and
keeps her face fixed it is impossible
for those watching her not to begin to
enjoy the unknown .'it" at which she
is smiling. She looks as if she enjoyed
the laughing for its own sake, and she
says her nature was never jovial,
either.
Miss Lipman parts her lips. Then the
firm, even, white rows of teeth separate
and the eyes fairly swim and revel in
laughter. They are capable of any ex-
preston, ranging from mild enjoyment
to perfect hilarity.
1t would be easy to defy a man to
Withstand any girl who could use a
weapon like Miss Lipman's laugh on
him.
Julia Marlowe accomplishes her per-
sonal laugh without hiding her eyes.
That is genius. Even the thinnest face
would carry this smile with the eyes
included. 1t has various degrees of in
tensity. In its lesser form it amounts
to very fair kind of smile. This deep
ems and intensifies into an absolute
w uSA II Is SET anu COOISu II
can be preserved on the face for some
time. 1t is a very good smile to prac-
tice before the mirror until it becomes
second nature. Any girl who has ever
been told that her smile is reminiscent
of some well known woman's smile will
never desert that afterward.
Julia Marlowe'S is a very desirable
smile to make a permanent feature.
Jules Keller, the upside down man,
whose arms are to him what legs are to
more ordinary folk, is Polish Jew, 33
years of age, and is a giant of strength
from his waist upward. Keller has
managed to support himself independ-
emily of his lower extremities, with very
great success. His legs, although out
wardly almost perfect, contain no bone.
or next to none; consequently his peo-
PIE very properly apprenticed him to the
tailoring business. He developed the
extraordinary power of his arms, simply
because he had to get about somehow
By degrees he forsook the tailoring plat
form on which he had squatted for
years, and took to another and far more
profitable stage.
Amazing as it may seem, the upside
down man. can take a clear leap of four
feet over an obstacle on his hands; and
he can in the same way jump down from
a platform nine feet high. I saw him,
says New York Journal writer, do
this, and noticed that his tremendously
powerful arms yielded as he struck, let
ting his chin almost touch the ground in
order to break the fall. Kellers elastic
step" cannot be described. In Vienna
he walked on his hands for a wager
against young athlete and beat him;
of course he had a little start, and his
opponent walked after the manner of
men, He runs, too, in an extraordinary
way, his legs dangling carelessly over
his head; and he concludes his perform
ance with an American sand dance or
5ig-positively the most unique thing
you ever saw, since the mans lower
limbs are useless-a mere incumbrance
thrown on his hands
Among the young women vocalists
coming prominently to the front in San
Francisco is the contralto, Miss Ma
belle Gilman, native of Sacramento.
A San Francisco critic said of a recent
performance by her:
Miss Mabelle Gilman is a young
woman with great future before her.
She possesses rich musical contralto
with superb compass reaching to the
nigh meZzo-soprano notes. Her dra-
matte ability was shown in her rendi-
tion of Santuzza's Romance and in
the great duet from Aida where 1t
Seemed that she must act as she sang
the intense part. The gift of tongues
also belong TO this highly lowered girl.
for her pronunciation of the German in
the beautiful Schubert song .Aufen-
thalt,' as we'll as the clear liquid Ital-
ian, in the 'Cavalleria' and Aida was
distinct and pure. We learned that
this young woman is but a little past
Is years of age. and with youth, beauty.
voice and health we may predict for
her the applause of two continents. -
Johan Strauss was in Berlin not long
ago TO attend the first performance OF
his latest operet.a, 'tWaldmeister. -
which Won a brilliant success. At a
social gathering Oscar Blunenthal
made a speech of welcome in which the
following occurs: Praise of his works
would only enbarrass a man who has
preserved all the moSlesty of his youth
Cur guest is perhaps the only living
person who does not like to talk about
Johann Strauss. In only one case is he
able to applaud his own melodies-when
ne comes across them in the operettas o4
others. How many times has ne been
surprised by such meetings? AS for
those other composers. their only excuse
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