A POPULAR DANCE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 33, 16 August 1890, Page 8

A POPULAR DANCE.

First Sweet Girl : ‘ Oh, you should dance Strauss’s new minuet waltz; it’s perfectly lovely !’ Second sweet girl: ‘ I hate those pokey old minuet figures. ’ ‘ Oh, it isn’t like the old minuet at all. It’s too delightful ! You waltz a while, and then the music changes and you go off in a corner and spoon. ’

A somewhat amusing incident recently occurred at St. James's Theatre. After a most successful performance, Mrs Langtry stepped forward to speak the epilogue of ‘ As You Like It,’ and when she had uttered the words, ‘ If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me,’ a deep manly voice from the orchestra stalls was heard saying, ‘ Hear, hear.’ Mrs Langtry was amused, the company behind her tittered, and a light ripple of laughter ran all over the house. The foregoing story is true enough, but of course it is not new, says a contemporary. In Birmingham once, when Mdine. Modjeska hail repeated the same lines, a grimy occupant of the gallery called out, ‘Just step up ’ere, miss.'