The Irish standard., 1905-03-11
"DREssY" NIGHT IN MINNEAPOLIS,

IAdt piONlucEtllSu 100 often found
east Of the Allegheny mountains which
believes or essays to believe that there
lis nothing worth having west of Buff
falo. The ignorance displayed by some
eastern people in reference to the peo-
pie and the enterprise of the west is
often amazing. This ignorance gives
rise to opinions more or less prevalent
and often reflected in the eastern
press. We are often caricutured in Il
humorous way and treated as alto
gether inferior beings. For these
opinions there is very little real cause,
for very few Of the eastern people
know anything whatever of the west
from actual travel while most western
people are thoroughly familiar with
the east. But, we must confess that
there are few things that happen in
our western cities that might easily
lead New Yorker who never has been
west of Buffalo to believe that our
next door neighbors are Indians and
our society leaders cowboys. A fam
boyant press is often responsible fof
such notions. An instance called to
mind is the manner in which our
neighbor The Tribune wrote up the
opening night at the Auditorium. One
would think from the description given
by The Tribune that it was Il sort of
horse show at which men and women
instead of horses were OH parade for
inspection. There were columns of
description in The Tribune unintelli-
gible to anyone except dress goods
clerk or Il milliner, but there was very
little about music. The Trbune's ap-
probation seemed to be entirely ocular
while most musicians greatest means
of enjoyment is auricuar. The Trib-
une's outburst gave our eastern
friends good opportunity which was
seized upon by the New York Sun in
the following comment:
Minneapolis has an Auditorium. st.
Paul has the blues. The opening of
that Auditorium makes Minneapolis,
as the Tribune of that town says, the
bright star in grand musical tirma-
ment;" it marks epoch in dramatic,
operatic and harmonic history of
Northwest 1t lifts Minneapolis to IL
high rank among artistic con-
tiers of the world" 1"other twin
wears IL penitential garb,' the st.
Paul Dispatch whimpers But let us
leave that house of mourning, entel
the house of feaSting and get "a pic
ture Ct one of the greatest events to
which the people of the metropolis of
the Northwest can point with PRIDE:
The six boxes We're filled with the
elite. and stretching wide and far was
the mammoth parquet. with it's thou
sand and half of humanity in gal.,
attire; and above, the fringes OF hu-
manity occupying the balconies, no
less dressy, no less glittering. no less
representative of Il metropolitan citi-
zenship.
Imagine all this. lighted with thou
sands of lights and to spare, glinting
the toilettes of the ladies'. rejecting
the jewels of the wearers, flooding
everything with almost IL calcium radi-
aimee, and you have the total Of the
effect produced at the first perform
Hnce in the new auditorium
Only six boxes of elite! 1t is some
compensation to see that even the
fringes of humanity in the balconies
were "dreSsy.' 1t was Il CRANE:
''dressy" occasion. The glitter of it,
and the calcium radiance of those
of "sparklers' turn night
into day, even at this distance:
Crowded was the place, and yet
not crowded, for the broad aisies. the
ample seats. the lofty ceiling. gave
everything Il generous appearance, and
there was nothing cramped about any
thing in the new venture. Add to this
the mammoth stage. almost the largest
in the country. with it's ch3rus in
place. it's great orchestra ready. the
evening toilletcs, the countless white
bosons of the men, the quivering
aigrettes. the tuttering fans, and
above all that indefinite cosmopolitan
ism of perfume that goes with II
stylish audience, and you have the
first general impression of the begin
ming Of the evening. 1t was like IL
theatrical. operate festival. magnitied
many fold. 1t was the first metropoli-
tan step into music made by Mime
apolis. and every Minneapolis person
was proud of being there, and fully
satisfied"
Was it Mr.. Beecher who asserted
that the best smell was no smell? Mr..
Reecher was of Brooklyn and mistook
the m,,rmur of his rustic burg for the
great wave that eddies round the
world. The stylish" and ''dressy''
audience emitted an indefinite Mime
apolitan cosmopolitan perfume, a tenn
pered multi-fragrance, the exact COM
position and aesthetic appeal of which
only Prof. Harry Thurston Peck, who
has made all Smell his province. can
appreciate Now one more feast for
nostrils, eye and ear:
when finally the signal was given
and the curtain rose to disclose row