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THE StJNNT SOUTH, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 3,1892,
NYE AT THE PLAY.
HE TALKS
ABOUT THE
GOTHAM.
BALLET IN
A Graphic Description of the Black Crook
and How the Actors Succeed in Making
Their Living—A Comic Opera That Bill
Likes.
[Copyright, 1892, by Edgar W. Nye.]
The revival of the “Black Crook” and
Lottie Collins in New York has given,
as I may say, an atmosphere of earnest
yet diaphanous freshly laundered ruffles
and firm young muscle which pervades
all the other theaters also and makes the
life of a bass viol player a most hazard
ous one. I was perfectly astonished a
month ago while here with my family,
and as I bad other shopping that could
be done larer 1 allowed the family to
look casually upon the billboards, while
1 promised myself that later on I would
do the balance of my trading for winter
and also do a little Dr. Parkhursting be
sides.
The “Black Crook” is a play which one
gets the synopsis of and reads after he
gets home, but I'll bet a dollar that he
cannot do so on the ground. I will give
AT THE BLACK CROOK,
a brief epitome, so that those who wish
to understand the play itself before at
tending it may do so, enjoying the
scenic and incidental parts while pres
ent, thus saving a great deal of time.
The quality of the dialogue is flat
enough for the commencement day at
an idiot school. If a blind man were to
come home alive after attending the
“Black Crook” lie wonld have to put his
brain on his asparagus bed. It would be
useless for other purposes.
The general literary tone of the play
reminds one of the works of Steve Brodie,
or the persiflage of Mine. Yucca, who
lifts the horse at Hulier's dime museum.
And yet one does not go away. I was
alone, and at 10 a. m. could get one lone
s t by the man who plays the popgun
in the orchestra. I sat over three hours
holding a large fat lady with a real alli
gator neck and moss green freckles on
it. At first she rested equally on me
and a gent on her right, but the gent on
her right got weary, and taking a linger- j the rightful heir to the throne of Milan
There always is more or less foreign sub
stance in lettuce, but I could not ignore
the fact that there was indeed a diamond
ring. 1 looked it over with a sigh and
gave it to the waiter girl. Everything
that one finds that way he should retnrn.
If I were to go to that house again I
would get two pieces of pie and a hearty
welcome.
At this point we see by onr pro
gramme that it will be continued on
next page, and that Lyon & Healy’s
brass bands are used exclusively in this
theater; also that members of the “Black
Crook” company wear the celebrated
Voila self heaving chest from Paris.
Buy no other one. We now turn over
onr programme and find that the Run
around railroad can receive a few more
people if told in time, and even go over
to Brooklyn for people who are well con
nected. Then the next scene is a rocky
pass. It is over the Runaround railroad,
I presume, and expires the day before
you start.
There is also a “danse rustique” and
some coryphees. I’ve seen a good many
coryphees in my time, but I never saw
one that I would care to place in charge
of the infant class at Mount Calvary
Sabbath school where I live. They seem
too frivolous to me. They do not live
for a purpose.
The Grotto of Stalacta is a good thing.
Imagine a beautiful cavern lined with
rock candy and faced with neapolitan
ice cream, then stalactites of pure lemon
ice and stalagmites of tutti frutti,
lighted up with powerful electric lights,
toned down with beautiful prismatic
tints of eveiy hue, and a torchlight pro
cession of coryphees carrying a large
wire bannerl
After the appearance of Fielding, the
wonder, who has no connection with the
play, the four young ladies from Paris
come in and oblige. They dance nimbly
about at a great rate, standing first on
one leg and then on the other. And yet
they were once poor girls living on the
Rue de la Bastille, with very light laundry
bills even then. It is wonderful how
other nations succeed in this country.
These four poor girls are now able to
earn a good salary in a few moments
playing leap frog and cutting up at a
great rate. Then all day they can go
and see the city of New York and the
pleasant animals in Central park. They
lead lives of ease which come as near
that of the Pullman car conductor as
anything 1 know of.
The Casino has come forward and re
formed, hoping in the bright and glori
ous future to greet the good and great
and occupy the parquet along with Mr.
Palmer and Augustin Daly. The
“Fencing Master*’ is one of the prettiest
and most romantic comic operas I have
ever seen. It is Italian, but not ef
fusively so. The principal scenes are
laid in Venice, and all the trading and
visiting seem to be done in gondolas.
Marie Tempest is the fencing master—a
daughter who has been reared as a son
by her old father till she is the most
skillful swordsman in the place. She
becomes the court fencing master, and
during the campaign keeps the royal
fences in repair. Francesca, the young
swordsman, falls in love with Fortuino,
ing look at the ballet he went away.
Count Wolfenstein is a character in
the play, and lives on bis title and eleven
dollars per week. Rudolph is a poor
artist, who paints campaign banners, and
so cannot get auything only every four
years. But while he is in the hands of
his enemies and chained to a large pillar
of the dungeon of the castle he is ap
proached by Hertzog, called the Black
Crook, a man who lives in the mountains
and has dealings with the devil, ever
and anon swapping him a soul for a milk
cow or a town lot. It must be remem
bered, however, that all along here rapid
fiddling occurs, and beautiful girls, re
lieved of their wraps by kindly hands,
come in and dance in a sprightly way,
which reminds me of the Jardin Kerbiff,
in Paris, where I was once at.
All at once the orchestra opens with a
sort of bugle call sounding like tummy
da da, tummy da. da, rat te tat, rat te
tat, tummy da da, tummy da da, and
then some more girls come upon the
stage and cut up so that I put a corner
of the fat lady’s Paisley shawl over my
head. Next came a view of hell, and
the old lady removed the shawl and told
me I could look now. It was a beautiful
sight. Dragonfire runs this department,
and when he cracks his knuckles the
sparks of electricity snap forth like
everything.
He is clothed in medicated red flannel
from head to feet, and in face reminds
one of the magician Herrmann. I met
Herrmann once in Tiffin, O. We played
against each other. We stopped at the
same place, as regards hotels. He asked
me to sit at his table. I said I did not
mind doing so if he wonld not play any
tricks on me. He said he wonld not.
Before we got half through he begged
my pardon—he is a very polite man—
and said there was some foreign sub-
ftanca in my lettuce. I said doubtless.
and owner of a line of gondolas on Fifth
avenue. He is sent on a perilous mis
sion, which it is hoped will result in his
ignominious death, but Francesca re
solves to go with him, and buying a new
Wade& Butcher sword she goes with
him, joyfully knifing several of his
prominent enemies and asking their
friends to send in the bill for same.
GAVE THE RING TO THE GIRL.
Fortuino, however, loves another, but
not beyond his control, as she seems to
be a bit of a flirt, and in fact Francesca
encourages her to elope with a well
known Venetian proprietor of a trolley
line on the Grand canal. He comes
every evening and plunks with his
Venetian plonker to a low, sad refrain
referring to love that curls up and dies
for lack of proper attention. Francesca
is in favor of this matter and encourages
his passion, egging the young lady on,
Fortuino agrees to meet this girl ana
speak to her freely; also to tell her that
fc e is very likely to come into possession of
the throne by showing his subjects that
they are at that time paying too high a
duty on wearing apparel, and that wages
have gone down, thus turning the tide
of added wealth, called the unearned
increment, into the pockets of the rich.
Francesca so assists the other man
that he gets the young lady just before
Fortuino arrives, and pretty soon there
has to be an explanation, and no longer
can the beautiful boy swordsman con
ceal the fact that he loves Fortuino and
would cheerfully die in his defense, as
he had almost done already several times.
By and by all is well, and Fortuino
wondei'S how he could have been such
an ass all along, and tbe audience cor
dially join in also, having wondered for
some time why he did not know more
Then Francesca goes away to her rooms
and returns in a long dress made of
Italian red and yellow plaid with a
special train to it.
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The most remarkable thing noticed
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West is the retrogression of the State of
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Not unfrequently one finds but half a
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tile scattered ranchmen who live from
fiiteeii to lbity miles apart, and his im
mediate society is that of the lnuLdss
who dig in bis garden, when he hap
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With him good health, good appetite,
a full cupboard ami a weallu r-iigiiL
cabin discount the glory of the world.
Ignc rant of Luck.
From the Detroit Free Pr. ss.
“Heah, you Silas,” exclaimed the
o’d colored woman to her husband,
“lake dis yer rabbit font you gib m<
yistiddy fei lu«k. Tain’ no good wha’
sun de’ver. It’s jis bad, da’s wka’ M
am.”
“8ho nufT!” queried Silas, faking
the talisman from Imr hand with a
look of paiued surprise on his old face.
“< lo’se.”
“1 nebber heered dat ’bout er rabbit
foot befo’,” asserted Srias. “What
you been doin’ wid hit, Mirandy ?”
“Noffin ’tall. Dis mawiiin’ I taken
my bes’ dish ober to Miss Ellen’s an’ I
trip on de do’ step and fall down, an'
plumb break dat dish in a dozen
pieces.”
“Hu’t yo’se’f, Mirandy?” inquired
Silas solicitously.
“No, I didn’t,’’ replied Miranda, half
crying over the loss of her di>h.
“Co’se not,” exclaimed Silas* tri
umphantly . “Ef you hadn’t a bad
dat rabbit foot wid you, you break dat
brack neck ob yo’s, sho, failin’ down
dein do’ steps. Heah, you take dis
yer rabbit foot right back now, an'
cai’y hit wid you all de time. You
don’ know nufliu’ ’bout luck ’tall, Mi
randy, you doau’.” aud Silas Blade her
put it in her pocket.
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