Frou-Frou

“Manager Daly is striking a heavy blow at the ticket speculating nuisance. He warns the public that hereafter all tickets purchased of sidewalk operators will be refused at the door. This will send the curbstone speculators to that unknown region where the woodbine twineth.”

Long announcement generally praising the performers and the production. No mention of music.

“‘Frou-Frou,’ with all its dainty accessories, is likely to run without any diminution of public favor to its hundredth night, and perhaps beyond that. That is encouragement for the admirers of the legitimate, and a proof that in New York merit will triumph in spite of all obstacles. Mr. Daly has acted with fidelity towards the public in keeping his boudoir theatre up to a first class standard, and has given older managers many salutary lessons. Rarely has a young man in his first essay at theatrical management reached the pinnacle of success in a single season. The management of the Fifth Avenue theatre [sic] is an example.”

Brief.

“…Not to have seen ‘Frou-Frou’ several times would place you out of the pale of fashionable and civilized life.”

“Not only have we ‘Frou-Frou’ on the stage of Mr. Daly’s Fifth Avenue Theatre, and ‘Frou-Frou’ in the studios of our fashionable galleries in the form of counterfeit presentments of Agnes Ethel in all sorts of sentimental poses, but the music publishers give us a ‘Frou-Frou’ waltz, the party-givers have organized a ‘Frou-Frou’ Club, Knox has put forth a ‘Frou-Frou’ hat, Stewart has imported a new sensitive dress fabric which, in compliment to the popular idol, he calls the ‘Frou-Frou,’ and the newest ‘sweet thing’ in spring bonnets is named ‘Frou-Frou’ too. To crown all, the last number of the London Court Journal describes how the magic name invaded the Queen’s recent reception, in the shape of a ‘Frou-Frou’ coiffure.”