Las Vegas optic., 1912-07-30
GABY CANNOT DO
The USUAL
STUNTS
MANUEL's AFFINITY is NOT
ABLE EITHER TO SING OR
TO DANCE

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is simply bubbling over with wrath
and ire.
A critic, an unfeeling critic, named
j. Ernest Charles Of the Gil Bias,
criticized her SO hard that she can
sit still no longer, She has put the
matter into the hands Of her attor-
ney, Maitre Brunei, and Of her law
yer Maitre Charlie Philippe, and .
suit for fortune is to be filed-she
says.
The truth Of the matter is that J.
Ernest Charles did give Gaby an out
landish lambasting, The little piece
was only two columns long and I'll
was inconspicuously posted in that
portion Of the front page technically
described as leading the paper"
Here are few Of the remarks made
by ]. Ernest Charles.
Mile Gaby. Deslys is young per-
son, very well known, who represents
the genie francais' abroad And per
haps she represents foreign genius
at home. But all this has no impor-
tance. The great essential is that she
represents something. Don't let It get
past you that she represents some
thing. And that something is as
suredly the monstrosity of snobism
and the gigantic strength Of press
agentry
"NIlle. Gaby Deslys, first is a pretty
girl. Next she is a dancer, or, If you
prefer, singer What you like best
she is. But strictly speaking, shel
doesn't know thing either about
dancing or singing. Indifferently she
is the one and the other; when she
dances, she's singer; when she sings
she's dancer.
"But this again is Of no particular
Importance. For the more Mile Gaby
DesIys sings badly, and the farther
she pushes back the limits Of medic
Gritty in the choregraphic art, the
more visible is she as pretty girl.
$50 Mile Gaby Deslys is pretty
girl. She is pretty with eclat. And
that's the reason why, with eclat she
who doesn't know tAe first thing
about singing and dancing, is a singer
and dancer. She had the sense not
to lose herself among other girls who
know nothing Of singing and dancing
and who are perhaps more charming
and seductive. She entered into fame
through the door Of royal palace" !"
4 J. Ernest Charles writes thusly, de
scribing in more or less detail satiric-
al the affairs (real or pretended) with
the insipid boy king or Portugal. In
this manner, he says, Gaby lifted her
self above her sisters, becoming a
cosmopolitan person, equally appre-
ciated in every cline. She is Meth
er English, French nor Viennese, but
all there at time with little Bel
gian thrown in. Vaguely. she is Port
uguese; American also, bizarre and
disconcerting not negligible. want
you toknaw, but insupportably Ito my
notion), yet irresistibly to those who
frequent the music halls. She is o
smopolitan beauty, terribly cosmo-
politan.
"And her accent Is like her beau
ty; it is indefinabIe and neutral; it is
lof no age and Of no country. Hers is
! the accept Of a transatlantic steam
boat.
"And her talentl Let us wait
a moment before speaking of the tai
ent Of Mile Gaby Deslysl It's big
subject. But let US approach it never
theless.
Mile. Gaby Deslys is a singer and
dancer. have already said it, but
there are something's we can't repeat
too often. Still Mile. Gaby Deslyi
doesn't sing and she doesn't dance
What does she do? She exhibits. AND
exhibiting she sacks everything, sup
! presses everything. Music, harmony
. literature. Nothing remains abou
!. her! She is left alone, with herself
! human Stiffness personiifed!
TT has been given to me to hea'
Mile Gaby Deslys sing English air
to negro words; to see her dane
without cadence indescribable dances
and | am persudade that troupe o
idiots, stricken with delirium, reuDit
ed all the elements Of burlesque in on,
: wild sinister buffoonry. Everything
= indicates, in these scenes Of Mile
Gaby Deslys, the absolute disassocia
tion Of ideas, the rupture Of all equili
brium. There Is one number in which
she mingles, in all their horror. tb'
sentimentality Of England and Ameri
ca and the pornography Of all no
tions."
J, Ernest Charles has written vel
and he has made Gaby very mad