New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-15
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TROUBLES OF 1Aw4Ea AND An ACTRESS


From the New York News. October 2d,l *
Vestvai, the Magnificent Y was introduced to
the Brooklyn public about q week ago, with a
prodigious flourish of newspaper trumpets. The
enterprising manager aimed at asensation, and,
to make it more complete, party Of the fast men
of Brooklynand several lawyers, headed by Mr..
James Troy, the assistant district attorney of
the most popular members of the Kings county
bar, took charge of the business affairs Of the
show, and undertook to engineer it into public
favor. 6tf
The newspapers were appealedsto by the above
named gentlemen of the bar, who urged the
managers of the press to relax their stern bust
ness regulations in favor of the lady in whom he
was interested, and allow her to insert extravar
/ gantly lengthy advertisements, and furnish her
with posters in profusion, without e2actDg the
usual conditions Of part paymentin advance.
What inducements, the gentleman Of the bar
had received for thus interesting himself in the
pecuniary success of the lady does not appear,
nor yet what inducements We're offered the mana.
gers of newspapers, but true it is, that it was
agreed on their part that the actress should have
all the fav0rs she requested through her ''earned
COUNSEL" and all the time she needed to cancel
her indebtedness.
Lawyer Troy used his influence to secure a
good house for the initiative performance:
but the nights were stormy, and tie public in
large numbers did not witness the acting of the
divinity of masculine proportions and well-deve-
loped physique Slim houses chilled the ardor of
the l." Magnificent and dampened the feryor of
the histrionic lawyer. A dead loss,stared them in
the face, and Yestyali concluded her engagement
in private tableau of sorrow and despair, in
which the lawyer and herself struck the principal
Immediately after the performances at the Aca-
denny and in consequence of the fzzle becoming
apparent, the newspapers and job-printing Offices
greedily clamored for their money. Vestyali, |
however, locked herself up in her room in the
Pierrepoint House on the heights, where she had
taken up her temporary abode, and defied her
creditors. The lawyer, however, was not so for
tunate. He was chased through the city hall,
hunted along the echoing corridors at the court
house, and baited like q surly bear, even in the
usually secure retreat which his Office afforded.
He finally stood at bay, and assured his clamor-
Gus creditors that he would become responsible
for the debts of the fair Magnificent but that
as he had ne money about him g at the present
time y he would crafty their demands in full in
the dim and misty future.n The rayenons prin-
ters were foed for the time and left to devise in
the secresy Of their hearts, some new method of
extracting blood from this legal turnip.
The final ..splurgeo was brought about thus |
Troy found himself rapidly gliding into the
Slough of despond.n The Magnificent was
neither economical nor prudent, and debts were
growing to fearful proportions, He began to per,
ceive that he had become possessed of a white
elephant, which, though very beautiful to behold,
was ruinous to the pocket He determined, there
fore, since he could not walk boldlyup and "show
cause, !, financially, to make mastery retreat.
On Saturday morning, in pursuance of a welllaid
plan, he visited the hotel, and was about removing
the lady and her luggage thence without the
knowledge of any one in the building, when he
was surprised IN the act by the proprietor, Mr.,
Peters, who seized on the trunks and swore that
they should not be taken away until the lady's
bill (nearly $lOO) hadlbeenpaid. The actresspro-
tested, and the lawyer declared himself willing to
become responsible, but, as usual, chad not the
sum about him. but would provide it at some
future time. Mr.. Peters, however, "did not see
it, and, in spite Of the protestations Of the fair
one and the indignation Of her male champion,
held the luggage and marshaled an army Of wait
ers at his back to support him. Finding tears and
drew from the recesses of her bosom bale of
greenhacks of small denomination, and was about
to surrender them to Buoiface, when the lawyer
gaiantly produced two $50 notesland paid her bill
himself, She then left for parts unknown, and the
lawyers mind was eased. The newspapers and
job Offices have not yet been paid but Mr.. Trey
says that he is responsible, and Will liquidate all
legal demands.