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Show The Opening "Star." Mile. Mar-i ietta Ravel, who opens at the theatre ' on Monday night, is a lady whose stage ! experience is as long as she is years ! old, for she is a member of a noted pantomimic and theatrical family, and may be said to have been born on the stage. The following concerning her ' performances was communicated to a ' Denver paper "by one of Denver's distinguished dis-tinguished theatre-goers," as the journal jour-nal publishing it says, and is endorsed by the editor: "New York went crazy over Ellsler. All Europe bowed at the shrine of Taglione. No wonder Denver is en- j thused on the subject of Marietta Ra-1 vel. Go to the theatre and you will understand why, night alter night, .she crowds the house to overflowing and fills the hearts of the people with an irrepressible furore. Admiration is the homage which nature pays to beauty and M'lle. Ravel is really beautiful. Every glance of her eye, every curl of her lip, every shrug of her pretty shoulders, every natural undulation of her bosom, every motion of her hand or linger, every attitude, every movement of her body, is a perfect per-fect tableau of grace and beauty. If she ums the sword or iuu: ket, it is with the skill of a practised warrijr. If she dances, it is like Cerito, or Ce-physe, Ce-physe, the queou bacchanal. If she opens her little mouth, it is only to display dis-play her ruby lips and pearly teeth. ! If she stretches out her arm, it is to bhow its peii'ect symmetry and exquisite ex-quisite dimples. If she stands erect and motionless, she reminds you of one of Michael Angelo's statues in the gallery at Florence. If she kneels, it is the Greek slave kneeling, instead of standing. If she happens to tall prostrate pros-trate for an instant, her arms and limbs at once, and with the most natural natur-al grace imaginable, assume an attitude of recumbent beauty which either Rubens or Canova would have been proud to copy. We expect for this celebrated artiste a most successful engagement here as elsewhere. |