Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-08-25
THE EMBASSY BALL"
First Glimpse of the Sheath Gown
 in This City.


 The sheath gown which has been causing a little furry in Paris, New York and other places made its entree intd this good old town of ours last evening. It came with The Embassy Ball" had Miss Francis Nordstrom to show 1t up and was scrutfnized eag-- erly for two acts.s The pie plates and large sized ear rings which should be worn with the direetoire gown according to Miss Maggie Cline, were indeed conspicuous by their absence. But although the sheath gown wasex- pected to be rather the: whole show last evening, 1t was by no means the cause of all the comment. There were many things, some of which were not on the programme, which caused the audience to forget the gown which was popular when old Columbo landed in the fig deserts of the West Indies. Back to the sheath tget on 10 the make up of the word gown later; there is some thing which impressed the writer even more than the dress which would make beauty of the torrid zone shiver if worn there. There was near killing in the play last might. For time 1t looked extreme l ly dubious whether one of the mem bers would survive the last act. ."A-h-h John Dalton" Meet at old mill, don't fail to bring the papers, curse you" Just as long as wood rots and water runs, just so long will I pursue that viper and when we meet, will send his soul into hell, these and similar expressions must now | take a seat on the shelf for antiques for the lines, Follow Me, Am Going to KILL Yu's uttered by J. C. Spottiswood a few minutes after 10 o'clock last evening almost caused the disruption of the play at Jacques. If 1t were not for the fact that some !. of the audience and few other people did not care to sprint, there is no telling what might have hap pened. The audience simply rOared, Miss Nordstrom could not help it, while "Blonderino' Hartford snick- cred and snickered again. Say but he was funny. Spottiswood evident ly did not think it was time to enjoy side splitter and looked not unlike a clergyman witnessing the tSalome' dance at prayer meeting. It was the richest bit of the production That with the sheath gown and the bang up comedy work of Chappie B, Hartford. with the saffron curriers' made an evenings entertainment
 which is not often to be had at . popular priced theater. The com pany knew there was big crowd present and the members simply out
 did themselves. From the nortl pole to the equator! When Mis-
 Nordstrom appeared in the gowr which is so different than the hooT skirt the gallery began to sit cree
 and see what 1t could see. But tn, scenery was not as profuse as antici pated and the groans began. Mis- Nordstrom did not seem to be oye
 anxious to display the details of tn, gown for she held the folds together
 when she was not concealing thu main feature behind chair O table. She had troubles of her owl when she tried to walk and it seemed sY as though her feet were tied togeth
 CT in a cute" manner. The audi ence was all eyes for the first few minutes and the young bloods dowr stairs, they were all in the bacl
 rows appeared to be trifie disap pointed. The gown itself did no have the profusion of rufiles on thu interior that was expected but other wise was a good creation of the gar ment which caused Noah to weal binders It, as well as the other at fractions in. the play, should prove {
 boomerang for the house for tn
 week. MT Hartford as Gus Cholmon
 deley rode in forty different vehicle
 last evening and he was there fol every second. It made no differenc, what kind of time he had 1t caused big laugh: his make up alone wa
 immense. He looked for all the worlt like Randeral Frizette and to watcl him in the part of the chappie,
 say go up and see him. The show
 itself is not much in fact 1t shoul,
 be in the hearse but never mind that Many first nighters were present in cluding some from Mill Plain.