The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-07
Gaby Deslys Received outlandishi
Lambastins Which She Did Not
Relish SO Very
Much.
HAS NO REAL TALENT.
]. Earnest Charles VIII be Sued for
Big Damages for the Free Ad-
vertisement He Gave
Her.

FAhIS, Aug. l.--GaDy Decays, she
Of the doll-like face and the baby
stare; she of the blue-eyed smile and
the downward glance, she who made
the Boy King-Manuel famous and put
the Portuguese Republic on the map.
(according to her press AGENT; she
who recently took America by storm
ESQ she says)-and intends doing SO
again-is simply bubbling over with
wrath and Ire.
A critic. a humble, satirical, unfeel-
ing critic. named j. Ernest Charles,
Of the "Gil Bias" criticized her so
hard, or sattrized her 80 numerically.
to use loftier-browed style, that
she can sit still no longer; she has
put the matter into the hands OF her
attorney, Maitre Brunei, and Of her
lawyer, Maitre Charles Philippe, and
nice, large, juicy 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. Neatbut-not-
gaudy was evidently the motto OF
his bludgeon, rampant on an azure
field Of do-a-good- while-you-are-
1t. The little piece was only two col
umns long and it was inconspicuously
pasted in that portion Of the front
page technically described as leading
the paper" Here are few of the
remarks made by j.. Ernest Charles:
Mile, Gaby Deslys is young per-
son, very well known, who represents
the genie Francois abroad. And per-
haps she represents foreign genius at
home. But all this has no Importance;
The great essential is that she repre-
sents something. Don't let it get past
you that she represents something.
And that something is assuredly the
monstrosity of snobism and the gigan-
tic strength of press-agentry.
Mile. Gaby Deslys, first, is pref
ty girl Next she Is dancer, or, II
you prefer, a singer. What you like
best. she is. But strictly speaking,
she doesn't know a 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 a dancer.
But this again is of no particular
Importance. For the more Mile. Gaby
Deslys sings badly, and the farther
she pushes back the limits of medic
Gritty in the photographic art, the
more visible is she as pretty girl
So Mile Gaby Deslys is pretty
girl. She is pretty with eclat. And
| that's the reason why, with eclat, she
doesn't know the first thing about
| singing and dancing, Is a singer and
a dancer. She had the horse-sense not
to lose herself among other girls who
know nothing of singing and uancing
4 like herself), and who are perhaps
more charming and seductive. She
etered into fame through the door Of
a royal palace
i ]. Ernest Charles writes thusly or
his way, describing in more or less
detail satirical, the liason (real OF
4 pretended) with the insipid boy-kins
of Portugal. In this manner, he says
Gaby lifted herself above her sisters
i becoming a cosmopolitan person
equally appreciated in every cline
She is neither English, French moi
Viennese, but all three at time with
a little Belgian thrown in. vaguel,
she is Portuguese; American also
bizarre and disconcerting mot negli
gible, want you to know, but insup
portably Ito my notion) yet irresist
ably to those who frequent the music
halls. She is cosmopolitan beauty
4 terribly cosmopolitan
And her accent is like her beauty;
1t is indefinable and neutral; it is OF
no age and of no country. Hers is
the accent of transatlantic steam
boat.
And her talent! Let us wait q