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DRAMA AND QPERA.
PALMER COX’S BROWNIES GROW IN
PUBLIC FAVOR.
Grand Opera. Promises Greater Successes
than it 11.0121 e-V‘ed Last Season. Many of
Living Pic-
Sardon’s Plays in America.
tures Approaching Suggestiveness.
Nothing could have been more brilliant
in actual achievement or richer in prom‘
ise than the opening of the opera season
in New York. “Romeo and Juliet,” when
interpreted by such artists as Mme. Mel-
ba, Jean and Edouard de Rezke and P01
Plancnn, is a constant delight. To say
anything new of awork that has been
heard for nearly 30 years is next to im-
possible. It is pleasant to note, however,
that this opera is at last and most de-
servedly meeting with that appreciation
which was denied it for many years. Per.
haps Jean de Reske’s incomparable em-
bodiment of Romeo has as much to do
with the present popularity of the work
as anything else. Mme. Melba seems to
havemaught something of the tencr’s
spirit. I for my own part took much
keener lelight in the beautifully poetic
and tender manner which marked her
singing of the balcony scene music than
in the brilliant waltz which the audience
insisted upon hearing the second time.
But then sustained tones coming from so
pure a voice always gives one more pleas-
ure than the most intricate and dazzling
feats of vocalization. Edouard de Rezke
was the Friar. His is such a gloriously
sonorous voice that you can never think
of anything else. Like his brother, he is
always bent on being dramatically dis‘
erect, but whether he happens to sing
Marcel or Friar Laurence or the King in
Lorengrin, you always watch yourself
saying. “Heavens, what a voice!”
M. Sardou will be well represented on
the New York stage this season. Besides
“A VVoman’s Silence,” two more of the
greatFrench playwright’s latest works
are to be produced here within the
next two months, while 312's. Langtry
promises us a revival of “La Patric,”
probably in January. The first of the
new plays to be. "“Secn is “Gismonda,”
which Mme. Bernhardt has just produced
in Paris with great success, if the Parisian
press is to be believed, and which Miss
Fanny Davenport will present to the
American public for the first time at the
Fifth Avenue Theatre in December. The
other new play I refer to is “Mme. Sans
Gene,” in which Miss Katherine Kidder
will be seen at the Broadway Theatre on
January 14, and which Mlle. Rejane will
present in the original at Abbey’s about
a month later. Of “Gismonda” the
French critics say it is “a work of high
literary merit, as well as of real dramatic
power.”
Few productions this winter have so
minimized the usual difference between
promise and accomplishment as the
dramatic resentment of Palmer Cox’s
familiar “ rownies.” The exactness with
which these whimsical figures have been
transferred to the stage is a matter of
considerable doubt, but there is enough
of the familiar characteristics of the
playful people to give to the performance
a refreshingly novel aspect. Of ‘ourse,
actors could never be found who possess,
even approximately, appropriate physical
qualifications for brownies. and the at-
tempt to secure this effect by artificial
means would have made them too un-
wieldy for activity. A good enough illu-
sion has been secured, however, to supply
new and picturesque figures to the light
style of entertainment. This in itself is
an accomplishment to be grateful for,
but the attention that the brownies at-
tract is deserved for more important
reasons. It is not to Mr. Cox’s quaint
costumes, or the graceful designs of Mr.
Birch, that the brownies owe their pros-
perity in their fleshly form so much as to
the fact that they have been endowed in
their new creation with nimble brains as
well as heels, with a brightness of speech
and a spryness of humor that their pan-
tomimic predecessors seldom possessed.
Credit for this is doubtless due to Ben
Teal, the director of the production.
There is no dazzling wit in the brownies’
talk, nor any triumphs of humor, but it
is all clear-cut. It may be simple in its
intent at times, but the leaden dullness of
what we have often received as stage
humor in such performances is gratefully
missed. The lyrics are as simple, but as
effective, and are often poetical in their
whimsicalities of rhyme and fancy. The
costumes designed by Reginald Birch are
genuinely artistic. The “Brownies”
dressmaking bills are probably not to be
compared in size to “Cinderella’s,” nor
are the surroundings ever sogrand. But
there is noticeable in costume, scenery,
and action the force of an intelligence
making an effort to do something else
than unroll yards of stuffs and scenery
before the gaze of an audience that is
dazzled into an indifference as to what
it hears so long as it sees. There are some
delightfully efllective scenes among the
brownies’ surroundings, and the final one
is particularly striking in its arrange-
ment of colors and its grouping. Its suc«
cess is not, however, due to any extrava-
gance of outlay, but to an artistic taste
and direction which shows how much
more should be valued such a faculty in
a play’s production.
A new lot of “living pictures” is shown
in “Little Christopher Columbus,” at the
Garden. There are sixteen of the tab-
leaux, and a round dozen are imitations
of masterpieces of the nude in art. The
naked figures are feminine, of course, and
consist of live women posed against
painted backgrounds. The present set is
bolder than the previous one in its pro
ponderance of unclothed bodies. The
poor creatures thus exposed to public
view are symmetrical in form and often
beautiful in face. They are nearly or
quite nude, so far as the eye of the spec-
tator can discern, the texture and hue of
the gossamer covering, where there is
any, being an undetectable counterfeit of
skin. In most cases the woman is dis-
played almost completely in such a skin«
tight envelope, from neck to the very ends
of her fingers and toes, every detail of her
physical exterior distinctly visible under
the intense light that is thrown on the
“picture,” and without a seam or joint-
ure in the thin, soft cover, or a. sign of
anything except skin next to its under-
side, to relieve the illusion that it is all
her own surface that is in view. Of course
there is excellent art in the wonderful
fidelitygvith which these women repro«
duce the famous pictures of Bougereau,
Heyse, llottot and Bisson, and they will
on that account be defended against the
charge of indecency. But, what would
be said of an exhibition of exclusively
nude works at the Academy of Design?
And would these “living pictures” draw
in the money that they do if the women
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ALLIGATORS AT HOME.
Clumsy on Land, but Able Adverssrlel II
the Water.
A Florida correspondent of the Denver
Republican says: If an alligator meets
you on land he is at your mercy. If you
meet him on the water the conditions are
reversed. On land he is an awkward fel-
low. His flippers are not made for walk-
ing, and he gets along through persever-
ance and endurance. In moving on land
he lifts his body up, but drags his tail on
the ground, no ing a trail as though
with a stick. An alligator’s tail is his
weapOn of defence, and it is a good one.
If the ’gator is an old one, from 10 to 16
feet, his tail will be from 5 to 8 feet. It
is nearly as large as the body back of the
hind legs and gradually tapering to a
point. This he can bring around with
such force as to break a man’s legs. He
will lie by the side of a lake, apparently
RSIGGP, but if a calf ventures too near the
’gator will switch around his tail and
break the animal’s legs and dine on veal
at his pleasure.
One singular thing about an alligator’s
trailing on land is that no matter at what
point of the compass the next lake is
located, when he starts he takes the
shortest cut; a surveyor could not make
a more direct air line. One night my dog
lurked for two hours, and at times he was
very ferocious. The next morning, on an
investigation, I found the trail of a large
alligator through my orange grove. He
had stopped half a. dozen times and had
some sort of discussion with the dog.
When he got to the front fence the boards
were so close together he could not get
through, so he climbed over, using his big
tail as a sort of boost.
In April and May the males make a.
great noise, bellowing like a. bull. In the
latter part of May they make a nest,
selecting a quiet place on the banks of a
lake or river. It will be two or three feet
long, built of sticks, grass and sand. The
female lays from 26 to 32 eggs. They are
as big around as a hen’s egg and nearly
twice as long. Boys hunt the eggs and
sell them to the curio stores, where they
are either hatched or blown out.
While the alligator is clumsy and awk-
ward on land, he is very graceful and
swift in the water. He is monarch of the
inland waters. My house is about 200
feet from the lake and 20 feet above it;
From my gallery with a field glass I can
watch their every movement, and it is
very [interesting to see how gracefully
they rise, sink, turn or swim at full speed
after a trout.
I had a colored boy about 12 years old,
what we call “yard boy.” He did all
kinds of chores. He would at times go
down to the boat house when there was
not a sign of an alligator on the lake, and
with a hoe splashed the water and
bark likea dog. Presently two or three
pairs of eyes would be seen just above the
water. Their eyes are very prominent,
sitting, or perhapsI should say jutting,
out from their heads. As the boy barked
and splashed the water they would come
nearer and nearer, and show more of
their bodies. \Vhen they got within fif-
teen or twenty feet, the boy would drop
the hoe and run up bill, as though a tribe
of Indians were after him. The negroes
have an idea-th. t an alligator prefers a
black man to a white one, and they say
that a ’gator will swim all around white
men if there is a negro in the crowd
The negroes look upon the ’gator as a.
natural enemy.
The alligator is not only a graceful
swimmer, but he is a powerful and
wicked assailant in the water. The
greatest danger is from their capsizing
the boat, when they will grasp a person
by the log and sink immediately, leaving
no escape from drowning. XVithin a. ra-
dius of four miles from Keuka, Fla.,
there are forty-one lakes, and this vicinity
has afforded rare sport for those who de.
light to get a crack at such game. They
are pretty well thinned out now, and
there are not so many making a business
of hunting them for their hides. There
was a time when a good-sized hide would
fetch $10 to $14, but now they do not
bring more than $1 and 952. But some
hunters make good wages.
PRINCESS BISMARCK.
The Iron Chancellor Had Given Her the
Credit of His Advancement in Life.
Princess Bismarck’s maiden name was
Johanna von Puttkammer. Her parents
were stanch Conservatives and inveterate
"pietists.” As ’such they were strongly
averse to her marrying the avowed repre-
sentative of other opinions and forbade
their daughter to accept his advances.
But one night when the Puttkammers
gave a party young Otto von Bismarck,
though not invited, stalked in among the
guests, linked arms with the not unwil-
ling Johanna and announced that they
were engaged. Her parents, stunned by
this audacity, had not the presence of
mind to deny the engagement on the spot.
Afterwards they agreed to give their
formal consent to the match rather than
brave what would have been a public
scandal involving their daughter.
Princess Bismarck never took a con«
spicuous part in German social life. She
was eminently domestic, devoted to her
home and children. She was tall and
somewhat angular, and her hair in later
years was snowy white. She was a fluent
and rapid talker, with a large fund of
anecdotes and reminiscences she was
fond of relating.
Her most intimate friend was the
Baroness \Vilhelm dc Rothschild. The
two used to meet at Homburg every-
ear.
y The Princess had three children. Her
only daughter married Count Rantzau.
Her elder son, Herbert, married _the
Countess Marie Hoyos, of Vienna. The
younger son, Wilhelm, Landrath at
Hanover, strongly resembles his father.
No finer tribute was ever paid to wo-
. man than is contained in a letter written
by Bismarck to his sister. several. years
after his marriage:
“I say to you, as I never tire of saying
to all my friends, that you cannot image
inc even a little bit what my wife has
made of me. To her is due all the credit.
In the midst of my most serious troubles
she has always maintained the dignity of
her position, and ;encouraged me where I
know otherwise I should have faltered.
She is ever the Princess, true and devot-
ed. All I have to worry me are these
trifling political affairs. The domestic
concerns go on smoothly, and everything
is so delightful in my home, that I feel I
am the most fortunate of men.” —
Lodger—You had a terrible fight with
your husband last night, Mrs. Pinchen.
I must go; I can’t stand the noise.
Landlady—You are a strange kind of
man, Mr. Flatten; you said you wanted
all the comforts of a home, and I’m sure
you got ’em.—Boston Gazette.
When a man is charged with argon is
it to be wondered at if he fires up?-—-Rich—
mend Dispatch. ,
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A . GOWE DOCTOR.
SHE TURNS SUMMER COSTUMES IN-
TO CHARMING WINTER ONES.
A Frenchwoman Who Has the Knack of
Making Over Gowns in .a. Way to De-
' ceive the Elect of Society. How She
Does It.
The young matrons of New York are
noted all over the country for the fresh-
ness and prettiness of their evening
gowns. This is due in some cases to a
a French dressmaker who goes among
them refashioning summer dresses into
at—home toilets for the evening, and who
charges an amount for her services that
is really nominal considering the results
she achieves.
One day last week the French woman
appeared at the house of a young matron
who had written that she wanted a pale
green gown of thin summer goods fash-
ioned into a dainty dress for a stay-at-
home evening. She carrieda parcel and
this is what it contained: One yard of
rose colored crepe, five yards of satin rib-
bon of the same color, and several strips
of rose velvet cut on the bias.
\Vhen the pale green gown was laid be
fore her she seized it as if she were a wolf
pouncing'upon her prey, and began rip-
ping off the fancy green collar as if it
were odious to her sight. As soon as the
collar was thrown away a piece of the
broad rose ribbon was folded neatly
across the front and fastened on, each
side. and there cut off. Then, quick as
her hands would let her, she took a. vel-
vet strip and Shirred it so as to make an
upstanding end at least three inches
broad. This she sewed fast to the collar
so that it would stand up well under the
ear, and proceeded to make another one
like it for the other side.
A nice strip of the ribbon was next
sewed on and carried around to the back
of the neck to complete the collar effect.
After this a. velvet rosette finished ,the
back and the side ears, as she calls them,
although they bore no resemblance to the
donkey-cared bows of the summer.
The front point of the green bodice was
treated to two more of the bias velvet up-
standing ends. These were very wide at
the flaring part. Perhaps they might
have been five inches wide. From under
them went the rose ribbon meandering
along the {side of the bodice and up half
way under the arm, where it caught
some trimming that finished there. Then
it continued its way to the back of the
waist, where it ended under the biggest
velvet bow that ever was seen on the
back of a house waist. Here the French-
woman stopped to do an ornament for
the hair,
“Eef I s’ould be unable to finish zee
skirt,” said she, “madame could wear zee
bodice eef she have zee hair trimming. It
ecs so parfait!”
The little thing that was fashioned for
the hair consisted of two loops of the rose
ribbon twisted together in a mysterious
way, while from the opposite side extend-
ed three pointed ends. A gold hairpin
was twisted through the ribbon knot to
facilitate the business of dressmaking
the hair.
“Zat ees for the hair high,” declared
the deft Frenchwoman. Then came two
small and perfectly symmetrical rose-
colored rosettes to be fastened back of
each ear in the demurrest possible way,
should the hair be worn low in one of the
draggy, old-fashioned , styles now in
favor. .
Next she ripped the skirt from the
band and shortened it a little, perhaps
enough to show the high heels of the
wearer, who would, of course have pretty
house slippers to wear with her glorified
gown. Not a particle of the rose was put
upon the skirt, and it might have seemed
as if the Frenchwoman were making a.
mistake, or even shirking'her work. But
she knew what she was about.
Calling for a. handsome lace—trimmed
petticoat, she began to stitch a ruffle of
the crepe under its bottom flounces of
lace. Then,holding it off for asglance of
approval, she flew busily onward with
her needle. The crepe flounce fell two
inches below the lace flounce.
“Ziss,” she said, “will fall below zee
skirt and give zee appearance of a rose
crepe ruflle. And if zee lace show, so
much zee prettier.”
When tried on the effect was so admir-
able that the young matron, after a. sug-
gestion from the dressmaker, ordered the
skirt of the dress to be lifted at the side
and fastened with a large velvet rosette
and a couple of the broad upstanding
ends, while the undershirt was to be fur-
ther trimmed with flounces of the rose
crepe and white lace.
Very large and regular rosettes of the
rose crepe were made for the black satin
house slippers, and the crepe was pulled
out to appear as full as possible in the
rosettes.
The French voman’s lamentations were
many that she could not cut the sleeves
into a long point over the hand, as they
were of :the full variety. But she con-
soled herself by binding a fan with rose
satin and covering its outside sticks to
match. She likewise set squares of rose
satin into a lace handkerchief.
“That would have cost a. little fortune
if I had had it done at my dressmaker’s,”
said the matron as the woman slipped
away with the money for one day’s sew-
ing in her pocket.
THE SERMONS GLADSTONE LIKES.
He Thinks Clergymen are Not Severe
Enough Upon Their Congregations.
Mr. Gladstone, upon being asked re-
cently what sort of sermons he liked
best, wrote that, in his opinion, the
clergymen of the day were not as a rule
severe enough upon their congregations}
They do not, continued Mr. Gladstone,
sufficiently lay upon the souls and con-
sciences of their hearers their moral ob-
ligations or probe their lives and bring
up their whole lives to the bar of con-
science. The sermons most needed are
those similar to the one that offended
Lord Melbourne when he complained
that he was obliged to listen to apreacher
who insisted upon a man applying his
religion to his private life.
“This,” added Mr. Gladstone, “is the
kind of preaching men need most and
get least of.” _
Millions In It. .
Inventor-I’ve hit a money-making
thing at last. The preachers will go
crazy over it, and it will sell like hot
cakes. It’s a. church contribution box.
Friend—\Vhat good is that?
Inventor-It’s a triumph. The coins fall
through slots of different sizes, and all dol-
lars, halves, quarters and (limes drop on
velvet; but the nickcls and pennies drop
onto a Chinese gong—N. Y. Weekly.
Self-Defense.
Justice—\tht were you doing in C01.
Ganderby’s chicken coop.
Uncle .\Iose—-Shu’ yo’ honoh, he fret-
tened to far and feather me, an’ I was
tryin’ to mek '5'.I'CI1 u. thing onpossible.——
Puck.
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