The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-01-04
DoNALDsoNV1LLE LA, SATURDAY JANUARY 4 1908.
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
Christmas and New Year Chatter in the
Delightful City-Italian Opera and
Other Amusements- Startling
Innovation in Dress Suits.
Stan Correspondents Of The Chief.

q gala evening in the old town. A
goodly portion of society aocked
en- masse to the opening of the French
Opera House, where the Milano opera
company aroused the enthusiasm OF
the music lovers of New Orleans with
an exquisite rendition in Italian OF
t'La Tosca, while the younger set
and the chaperones and patronesses OF
the occasion enjoyed cotillion at the
Athenaeum following delightful per-
formance by the Yale College Glee
Club The Milano opera company is
assuredly achieving all the success
here predicted for it by the press, and
many of the veteran patrons of the old
French Opera House and genuine
judges of music, declare the company
to be the most evenly balanced aggre-
CATION of high-class singers that has
been heard in shis city for years.
the old year has passed into eter-
nal oblivion, and nineteen hundred
and eight beams sunnily upon the
land. Auspiciously it entered, her
aided in New Orleans with blare of
trumpets and elamor of bells, and
this first day of itself is so fresh and
fragrant and spring like it would al.
most seem as If the young year
comes into its own underNth the benedic-
ton of Gods smile. Canal street
was merry, laughing tangle Of hu-
manity last night, and horns, COW
bells, fireworks, whistles and various
mechanical contrivances for noise
making were largely in evidence
among the gay-hearted throng willy.
nilly coming and going.
| There were some pretty hard knock
ers sitting behind me at the Orpheum
las Monday evening. They were sore
painfully sore-over the bill for
the current week, and the things they
said about this most popular play
house in the city were surely plenty.
On the whole, the bill was not
uniformly excellent but trio ol
comedy acrobats who undoubtedly
accomplished some remarkable featsi
May Ward and her company OF dainty
Dresden dolls: Voelker, the violinist
"a thorough master of the instrumen
with a stnnningly beautiful wife who
accompanies him on the piano, Ger
tainly went long ways toward re
deeming the evenings Offering. Be
sides, the kinodrome pictures were
both amusing and instructive, ane
surely four good numbers out O
eight ought to make even the chronic
"grouch" feel as if he's getting hi
moneys worth.
aForty five Minutes From Broad
way George Cohan gun1bo Q
music and slang, is the attraction a
the Tulane. Four nights and on
afternoon of next week Raymont
Hitchcock will be seen at the Tu
lane in "a Y Yankee Tourist, . and tn
Savage Grand Opera Company vii
hold the boards for the remainder Q
, the week in MADAME Butterfly" !"
: Very graceful and girlish is tn
present fashion OF adorning the hal
/. with ribbon, winding it in and out c
the coiffnre till it surmounts the hea
. in a full, soft bow. A startling innc
vation in mems attire is the colore
/ full dress suit. A chap on the stag
+ at local playhouse had on one {
: these atrocities the other evening
q rich plum hue it was-and / have
from a friend recently returned frol
It New York that while he was in cal
n patronized by the 'fsmart setn of Nj al
hattan's metropolis, a "swell' entere
in a blood red dress suit. Fancy i
"Black is the only thing for fu
9 dress wear" | heard local s.
: ciety man say who was discussir
this bizarre departure the other nigh
y TT clashes with no color that the lac
,, who accompanies him chances to wea
: If the colored dress suit achieves ar
d sort of vogue a fellow will have
Z ring up the lady of his heart bsfo
: they go out together and ascertain Il
! shade of the dress she means to wear
J. that he can don harmonfzing col
Or and thus eliminate the danger OF I
of two of them giving lurid represent
Is ton of an Italian sunset. It's co
10 ventional black for mine, = he finish
H. emphatically, ''oow and foreye
:, world without endn And | smfl
10 ,s upon him-simply because ne dc
q look awfully good in black and sa
= "Amen!' to that. E. B.