The brunette was Bluette, who played the soubrette roles at the Odeon; the blonde was Celine Gamelle, the new premiere danseuse.
She had been a soubrette in musical farce, but lately she had belonged to a variety and burlesque company.
Mrs. Mogley had first met Mogley when she was a soubrette and he a "walking gentleman.
Looking in the direction he pointed I saw the opera soubrette Z----, putting on her rubbers and crossing her legs in doing so.
I knew, however, that they were the right length, and any one can see by studying Zuloaga's paintings that the soubrette length skirt is not worn on the proud, swinging hips of the Spanish girl.
The small parts are usually filled by chorus men and women, and the opera soubretteor the operetta tenor, have to double and do the cheeky maids or giggly school girls and giddy young officers in the plays.
Our opera soubrette once received a hurry call to another Hofoper one hour's journey away.
Versatility is a most useful attribute on the operatic stage, and if you play all the way from Fides to soubrette parts in operetta, and the audience sticks to you, you may be considered fairly versatile.
The opera soubrette had one of years' standing with a tall ungainly White Dragoon.
Then you must be very fickle-minded, and I am sorry that I had that poor soubrette discharged for your sake!
Our soubrette is going to leave, and you can take her place as soon as you wish.
She retired in 1756, but after an absence of five years, during which she married, she reappeared as Madame Bellecour, and continued her successes in soubrette parts in the plays of Moliere and de Regnard.
She was a tall, handsome blonde, and an excellent actress, particularly in soubrette parts, a number of which Moliere wrote for her.
But, Alan Hawke was temporarily blind to the universally offered charms of the soubrette as he read Joseph Smith's careful report.
Margaret is to be seen full length; the little German soubrette does her best to be the Helen Faust takes her for; and we are meant to be profoundly interested in the love-story.
It is only a surmise, yet history as we know is continually repeating itself--even in Soubrette parts, and in more senses than one.
Probably in this in the latter instance we have the origin of the Columbine and Soubrette part in after years of the European stage as the term "accomplished companion," would equally apply to both.
I'd rather here a soubrette dolled up in a costume that would barely pass the bord of sensers sing a song like "Mother don't bother with the rolls, father's coming with a bun.
Believe you me, Julie, I luv a life on the ocean wave like a burlecue soubrette luvs an alarm clock; that is I like it a lot, but not a heluva lot.
The first singing soubrette was the wife of the prompter and the stage-manager.
She was the singing soubrette (by name Mrs. James Dickson).
She shook her crisp curls as she tripped away with her airy, mincing, soubrette tread.
Later, she had become a soubrette and a star in merry little plays in which she sang and danced and "emoted," all in one evening.
It broke me all up to have him throw me down for a second-rate soubrette like that.
Poor Fanchon--a soubrette in a cheap burlesque company!
The soubrette was chewing gum and anathematizing Rosewater as the 'jayest town on the slope,' and others were calling for the blood of the manager, who had absconded with the receipts of an unprofitable week.
The soubrettehad a lank young body neatly attired in a store suit and shirt-waist.
Della Fox was the Editha in the play and the soubrette in the musical piece, while Mr. Thomas acted Bill Lewis, the burglar, and Mr. Smith was Paul Benton.
She was always applauded and appreciated, but it was in the character of a soubrette in 'Chantaclara,' a light opera put on at the Coates Opera House by Professors Maderia and Merrihew, that she created the most decided sensation.
She evolved from the conventional prancing of the gay soubrette a dance whose appeal to the imagination was intense, a dance into which might be read many meanings.
Miss Raymond was specially engaged to play the soubrette role in Bolivar in Donnelly and Girard's "The Rainmakers.
Her next appearance was in the soubrette part in "Bill's Boot," in which Joe J.
She was given the soubrette part, and created something of a stir wherever the opera was given by her singing of "Fair Columbia," one of the most popular songs of the piece.
She had won recognition at last as a soubrette who was an artist as well as a personality.
As Gwendolyn in "Prince Pro Tem," however, she wore the conventional soubrette skirt of knee length.
The art of the soubrette is about the hardest thing in the world to pin down for examination.
After eight years of soubrette experience Christie MacDonald unexpectedly came into prima donnaship in February, 1900.
