The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-04-27
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
"Glorious Betsyo-An Oasis In Desert OF
theatrical immortality Blessed Rain.
Archbishop Blenk Invested
with the Pallium.

New Orleans. La. April "a, Ie05.
Staff Correspondence of The Chief.
Glorious Betsy, which was pre-
sented at the Shubert last week with
Mary Mannering in the title role, was
one of the sweetest, cleanest, most re-
freshing little plays it has ever been my
good fortune to see. The name ssGlo-
rious Betsy doesn't halfway begin to
suggest the manifold delights and sur
prises of the play itself, wherein is
developed the picturesque love story
of Betsy Patterson and jerome Bona.
parte. Rather. the title smacks of
things sporty, and sounds like the
name OF some thoroughbred race-horse
or another.
Mrs. Leslie Carter In 'sDu Barry
at the Tulane was not the screaming
success she was expected to be. Many
people were charmed with both the
play and the famous Mrs. Carter, but
many more were signally disappointed,
and at no time was the house more
than fairly filed, except, possibly, st
the matinees. e would be well If stDu
Barry and all kindred plays were
suppressed. There is never anything
good or elevating in q story of that
kind, yet one sees our young d6bu-
tantes girls in the sweetness and
bloom of their early teens attending
and callously discussing such pro-
ductions as "Du Dairy" !" ''Sapho, y
MAN and superman," "His House
In 0rdern and others of like ilk quite
as il it were the most commonplace
and natural thing in the world. "But
it is the artist We wish to see, not the
play, protest the sweet young things,
land if Mrs. Leslie Carter, and Olga
Nethersole, and Robert Lorraine and
John Drew elect to appear in such
plays, how else are We TO see them?n
Fine argument, that. I wish to good
ness we were treated to more plays ON
the order Of ''Glorious RetsY'' and
"Merely Mary Ann OF q past sea-
sons popularity. Plays of this kind
are clean and uplifting in their inno-
eence and charm, and do not leave
one feeling as if his whole personality
had been dragged through the cutters.
A large percentage of the attractions
which have appeared at the Tulane
this season have been musical come
dies, and possibly three-fourths of the
remaining ones and I think this is no
exaggeration-have bordered on the
sublimely indecent. Even many of the
meaningless, ineonsequential musical
comedies have been largely seasoned
with coarse jokes and vulgar witti-
cisms. Surely, il is not the mission
of the stage to pander to the lowest
instincts in mans nature, and I Won-
der that some of our great geniuses
of the histrionie world do not protest
against vehicles which are revolving
in their immortality.
Our erstwhile parched and dusty city
has blossomed like cool white lily
after the drenehing rains of Sunday
and Monday. Every green thing has
revived under the healing touch of the
rain, and the temper ature is just fresh
enough to be bracing.
Embroidered white parasols are GO
ing to be quite the thing this season.
| saw stunning one in Holmes win
dow this week done entirely in loose,
graceful sprays of violets. Shoe-store
proprietors are in despair over the
fact that the demand for tan footwear
is far exceeding the supply. It seems
that manufacturers are unable to pro-
cure tan leather, and in consequence
the output Of tan shoes is distressingly
short.
Nothing could be prettier with q
dainty lingerie dress than one of the
new garden hats, and no woman
could help looking other than be-
witching under these doppy, fascina-
ting leghorns with their lovely pro-
fusion of roses.
The Fitzpatrick, said to be the first
army transport that has ever come to
New Orleans, arrived here Sunday
evening with between 1000 and 1900
men, women and children on board.
Archbishop Blenk was invested with
the sacred pallium Wednesday morn
ing at the ST. Louis Cathedral by His
Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, repre-
senting the pope. The ceremony was
conducted with solemn and impressive
services, and the procession which
preceded the ceremony was formed Of
aco1ytes, the clergy and prelates with
their chaplains, and made distinctly
imposing sight.
The United Fruit Company IS steamer
Ellis left here Saturday forenoon
bound for the Isthmus Of Panama,
with thirty four business men from the
south and vest, twenty three Of whom
are from New Orleans, On board. The
mission of the trip is to prove to Latin.
American consumers the worth 81
southern products, and to foster trade
between the Mississippi valley section
and Central American ports. E.B.
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