The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-01-31
SOCIETY FROWNS.
Fashionable Danes at Private
WaldOrf-AstOria Vaudeville
Rebuke Baroness Blanc By
Kisses and Leave the Room.
SHE SINGS SUCH SONGS
As Are Popular in ''The Girl
From Paris"
SHE SINGS SUCH SONGS
And Displays Her Underwear
in a Suggestive Manner.

New York, Jan. 31.-Fashionable soci-
ETY. which has been privately entertain
ed at the WaIdorf-Astoria several times
by leading vaudeville actresses is
shocked at the performance of the Bar
oness Blanc and comment is fast and
furious. At the Waldorf-AstOria Sat
urday to hundreds of splendidly dress
ed women, Baroness Blanc sang her
couplets written on the model of the
wine-cellar drinking Odes.
For fashionable society she danced in
her mourning gown, the lining of which
is cerise-cOIored silk in ruff1es and in
her gold-spangled gown, the bodice of
which is an illusion.
Society Kissed, society frowned, sOci-
ETY. went out of the room.
The Baroness was presented by Burr
Mcintosh, general stage director of the
dramatic and musical breakfast in aid
of the fresh air fund.
Burr Mcintosh said: "The Baroness,
whom cruel court decree compels to
leave her name blank He smiled at
his pun, which few persons in that au-
dience of women understood.
The Baroness appeared. The white
hood on her hair, her hands Joined, her
eyelids hiding the flames of her eyes,
made her air demure. She sang:
I am widow and am very, very shy.
And l very seldom raise my dropping eye,
But If you will come some day al three,
And have a quiet cup of tea,
I'll let you be alone with me,
But you must first to this agree
That you T lil1 try to set the pace
And if you will remain till nine,
III try and change the tea to wine,
And when you leave, you'll say:
She is fine, this widow who is shy.
The singer lifted her skirt to her an
41les, to her knees, and made its rud1es
rustic. The eyes of the audience were
fixed on her with an expression of utter
establishment at first.
Young girls rose from their seats and
looked intently, as if to be sure their
eyes did not deceive them; chaperOns
whispered:
who is this young woman in the
third row, back of us?" or
See who is trying to attract your at
tention to the right or
I'VE must go out"
Some women Kissed as women may
hiss. The Baroness says she did not
hear them. Mr.. Mcintosh says he did
not hear them, but every usher applaud
ed like ten men.
The Baroness disappeared in the
tuuult. She reappeared in short
spangled skirt, in slight bodice, sing
ing:
They told me not to touch a drop of wine,
They said 1 couldn't stand it, but I did.
1t was q very warm night when we start
ed out to dine.
They had told me not to dine out, but
took a sip. it tasted nice,
And then we had a race
To see which one could drink the most,
And WE'LL set the pace.
And it was not very long
Before 1 thought owned the place.
They said I couldn't own it, but did.
Oh, yes, I did, indeed I did,
They said couldn't own it, but did.
The Baroness wrote and composed
the music of her songs. What they
mean she tried to tell in the symbolism
of her dances. Some persons shrugged
their shoulders, but Mrs. Wilbur Blood
good said: This is wrong" and Miss
Belle Nelson said: 1T is not grace
full and Mrs. John c. Wilmerding
said: 1T is disgraceful.'
The patrOnesses of the dramatic and
musical entertainments at the Waldorf
Astoria are led by Mrs. John Jacob As
tor, who will refuse to permit exhibit
lions that shock her friends.
Mr.. Mcintosh said last night: ct is
idle gossip to say that Clara Lipman