Show CLEOPATRA ayio york sun whatever may bo be the views of london critics aa as to mrs Langtry 8 Cle depatra patra there is but one opinion so far aa as her dress dresses ses ara ars cancer concerned ned A local expert furnishes a description of the costumes in the first scene where she steps from her picturesque bark on to a carpet strewn with roses and nile rushes cleopatra wears a flowing dres dress of gauzy white material lua she seems on fire w with ith pointed crystals crystal which gleaming and changing from crim eon son to green and silver border her dress and graceful grac grace ful wing sleeves and flash in the high coronet which rests on the elwing red brown hair one trea of hair ia is braided with a rope of pearls and splendid stones flash on tho the arm arms and alli neck and in the girdle which bangs hangs in in lone long bands hands from the waist mrs second dress in the scene with her maidens is quite a simple one consisting of a white silk embroidered in colored silks and a fringed over drapery of shell pink crepe embroidered broi dered in gold A green serpent coils in the hair and thick gold bracelets encircle the arms at the beginning of the third act where cleopatra Cle opotra eppeards at the head of her army she weara wears a train of sapphire blue velvet over a dress of paler blue embroidered in silver beraud and a silver helmet this is exchanged for the royal robes in which the egyptian queen appears when carried in a palanquin to welcome antony beneath the walls of alexandria and which in the last scene of all she dons to die in queen liko splendor the linder dress of white while silk is veiled in in white and green crystals represent ing flowers A mantle also of white ulray filmy material bordered with green cru embroidery and with a pattern of large nile lilies in crys atals wrought in in the train is clasp clapped ed about the bare neck A deep cir circle c Is of embroidery about the deck fla fligh bh cs es with the green iridescent irn descent stones which also adorn the clasp and girdle A stiff jewelled piece of silk pleated into lour four pleats fill falling I 1 na in front gives an character to the dress the long wavy hair is crowned with a helmet shaped coronet thickly crusted Z with jewels A halo bolo like circle iraides cen cent green reen metal forma forms a frame for the bg beautiful face A lich neck lace rings giuga on every finger and bracelets complete a dress of if royal magnificence which seta sets olf off mrs beauty to perfection the windows of mra mrs beautiful house in sluane sloane are still adorned with the 11 1 wera iwers she received on tuesday night they were yere largely tho the gifts of her two latet batet and roost devoted admirers ribert peel son of sir robert and ard curgan neither is much past 21 years of age and though both hare have largo incomes young peel baa has already begun to borrow money he lie is the youth who oho was done by shar pers a few months ago on an atlantic theamer en route for new york |