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Show , luptuous daan anl 't'iitw fore its real naughtiness could ""be" fully appreciated. With the exception ex-ception of the old lady, who was on the eveof climbing the golden stair, the women of this tragedy were low, coarse and surpassingly tough and immoral. Iza's mother was hard enough to grace the slums of Grant's Avenue or Dupont street, Frisco; the woman who impersonated imperson-ated the character making it fifty per cent rawer than the flagrant play itself even called for. Iza herself her-self well, she was made a big, voluptuous, vo-luptuous, finely-moulded intoxicating intoxicat-ing beauty, who portrayed ravishing ravish-ing voluptuousness in every act, smile, word and attitude. The famed studio scene was about the least objectionable part of this rank tragedy, the exquisitely-formed exquisitely-formed Iza appearing more like a beautiful piece of perfectly nude statuary than anything really live and bad. But the cool, evcry-day way in which this seemingly naked woman hopped into and resumed re-sumed her snowy-white robes, assisted by a man, completely broke that spell, however. We fear the effects of this notorious notori-ous play, which was barred from the best theatres in New York, Philadelphia and Chieago because of its unwholesome morals, has had its deteriorating effects upon the fair "poser" herself, as Thursday afternoon she was exhibiting herself her-self on our streets in a cutter, behind be-hind a fine charger, thesweetjingle of the merry bells kissing her flushed checks, while the strong arm of an .entrapped admirer tightly encircled her perfect waist. ' A few more visitations of this class 1 and our good people hero will soon be "up to snuff" and don't you for- 1 get it. |