A FAMOUS KISS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4442, 31 March 1883, Page 4

A FAMOUS KISS.

The editor of a Denver newspaper went to hear Emma Abbott sing, and in a lengthy review of the opera says : "As a singer she can just wallop the nose off anything that ever wagged a jaw on the boards. From her clear, bird-like upper notes she would carom away, down on the bass racket, and then cushion back to a sort of a spiritual treble, which made every man in the audience imagine every hair on his head was a golden string of a celestial harp, over which angelic fingers were sweeping in the inspiring old tune of " Polly, put the Kettle on." Here she would rest a while, thrilling like an enchanted bird, and then hop in among the upper notes with a get-up-and»get vivacity that jingled the glass pendants on the chandeliers and elicited a whoop of pleasure from every galoot in the mob. In the last act she made a neat play, and worked in that famous kiss of her's on Castle. He had her in his arms with her head lying on his shoulder, and with her eyes shooting streaks of'galvanised love right into his. All at once her lips began to twitch coaxingly, and get into position,' and when he tumbled to her racket; he drew.her up easy like, shut his eyes, and then her ripe luscious lips, glued themselves to his, and a thrill of pleasure nabbed hold of him till the audience could almost hear his toe-nails grind against his boots. Then she shut her eyes and pushed harder, and—ob, Holy Moses! j the ' smack' that followed started the stitches in every masculine heart in the house. She's a thorough-bred right from the start, and the fellow that takes in her kisses -is more to .be envied than the haaghtiest monarch that ever squatted dowH on a gold-plated throne "