Show Empire Fashions on the Stage Without trumpet call a queer little company com-pany of Russian singers has been introduced intro-duced at the Menus Plaislrs it has given two representations not to full houses because few knew anything about it But the spectacle is novel and success will come for a short time Natalka Poltavka is a popular comic opera and the part of the heroine is remarkably rendered by the Mile Zarnitskala There is no necessity to speak the names fortunately for-tunately if the endeavor does amuse the entractes The chorus is wonderful and the dancers outdance the Moulin Rouge They are quite as suggestive and the mouth kissing abundant As this sort of thing is never done here even in the most Camille like plays Paris Is astonished aston-ished interested and pleased Besides the singing is generally good and there is a vast amount of attractive simplicity in the work of all the people When the empire fashions came in last year they were before their historical time They come agiln now and woe to the woman not well built On the stage where all is cut and dried as in the great court scene of Madame SansGene It is easy moving about but in real life empire robes are difficult to manage Half the women will come to fat grief Then too it is not a cheap style Listen to a few of the items of M Massons interesting in-teresting book When Josephine was plain Mme de Bfxuharnais she was un nappy with four dozen chemises six petticoats petti-coats two dozen handkerchiefs eighteen lace fichus twelve stockings and two changeable silk robes When her Imperial husband had conquered Egypt and Italy she owed over a million for lingerie and she was not vet an empress Marie Louise says our author spent 400000 francs on the scarlet drapery of her cabinet de toilette She had 100000 francs worth of fine lace 130 robes from Lerpy 10000 handkerchiefs 6000 petticoats 0000 night capsyn gods and twelve dozen stockings stock-ings cf sting 70 francs per pair What a miserable half penny luxury we now enjoy en-joy When Stephanie be Beauharnais married mar-ried the Prince of jSaden the emperor ordered her trossexu himself giving special spec-ial directions for a tulle court dress for 2500 francs with the same amount In artificial flowers How small we grow as we read It is a question whether the bringing so near of Napoleon has been quite a virtue Paris correopondence of the New York Herald |