Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1889 — Be Good. [ARTICLE]

Be Good.

Pretty Marie Jansen hasn’t very much to do in Francis Wilson’s new opera at the Broadway Theatre, New York, but she has certainly created a sensation with her new song entitled Be Good, and a controversy is th reatened over the question whether or not the song may not be too suggestive for the -kind of audiences, which Mr. Wilson in The Oolah has attracted since the opening night. One of the verses in the-song describes how a young man carresses his sweetheart and dallies with her tresses, the tresses rhyming with caresses, of course, and the-young girl thus tenderly treated remonstrates with him and insists that he must “be good.” And Miss Jansen utters the phrase with subtle and humorous suggestiveness thqt gives to it its fullest possible significance.;—Ex.