The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-10-25
PERSONALS ABOUT LADIES.

| opera IOE nine bedeOuSs
Patti is now going the rounds of the
| English cities, prior to her departure for
Milan.
Miss Frank M'Grew is assistant cash.
| ier of the First National Bank at Hun
tington, Ind.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps new novel,
"TAe Story Of AVIS" is said to be the
werk OF her life.
| Mrs. X. B. Young conducts banking
business with great sagaclty aud sue
cess at Fort Collins, Colorado.
Miss Helen Potter is more popular
than ever this season, and has an i'm.
mense number OF engagements ahead.
Mise Schlam is going to debut as q
singer in San Francisco. Sac sings
sentimental music; not the Schlam-bang
| SORT.
Mrs. Charlotte Little. of Wolfe Coun-
ty, KY, Is the mother of twenty-'our
children ana has sixty-seyen grand
| children.
Christine Nilsson, Edith Wynne, An
| toinette Sterling, Edward Lloyd and
Lewis Thomas were to open season OF
concerts in Brighton, October 8.
Nine. Theirs is negotiating tor the
uUuSG III huC L SLlLS SIes, Is,
in which her deceased husband was
born, and Will make 1T a Tree museum
Among its contents will be many OBJ
jects OF art possessed by NJ. Thiers.
Gail Hamilton is fair and ireckled.
with yellOwish-brown hanging curs.
| She dresses very richly ana s0mewha at
peculiarly. In her youth she was utter
ly indifferent to dress, but nov, that she
is between forty and tlty, she Is getting
| uandIted.
Miss Emma Thursby made a delight
ful impression on her recent appearance
in Providence. Snce SLrakosch broke
his engagement with her, Miss Thursby
has not accepted any ones manage
ment, but Is sklllluNy Conducting Atr
own business.
Princess Mercedes, TO whom the
King OF SPAN is paying couLt, eXacts
from him all the little attentions that the
bellies Of Seville and Granada are ac-
customed to. One OF his duties is to
sing TO the tinkle OF guitar under her
balcony ut night.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett does
not ike Aatton's dramatiZation OF her
novel, "Ihat Lass o. LoWrie's." She
says it shall not be played in this coun-
try, and Is having another prepared tor
the American Stage under her personal
supervision. This is rather rough on
uaLton.
Miss Pier5on SAYS OF female medi-
cal student in the Russian army: "Ine
lady wore her hair snort and parted on
one side; spectacles with gold rims;
black tunic belted in round the waist,
and short black skirt. Sne smoked ci-
gars and seemed hail fellow well met
with all her companions.
Mrs. Davenport has just given several
OF her late husbands magnificent stage
costumes to Mr.. Charles II. Thorne, and
also copy OF st. Marc, or The Soldier
.oL Fortune" the play which Davenport,
ten years ago, told Thorne he should
have some day, since he himself was
getting almost TOO old for II.
Mile. Titiens' sister resents the
statement That The prima donna ever
sang in "her futner's public house."
She writes: sour father was hgnter-
man, in large way of business, owning
several vessels, and aflerward a aistil-
ler in good circumstances in Hamburg.
No person besIues our own fomlly ever
palu any expenses OF her musical euu-
cation"
Clara Morris may be said to owe her
present high position in the dramatic
world to Augustln DaIy's rel ance on
John f lslei's faith in her. DAILY took
her Tor minor parts, but Ellslar thought
she could do better. The result was Il
trial iii the role OF Anne Sylvester, and
Il triumph. Prior 10 This she was uH-
known, afterwards she was the Sarah
Bernhardt OF Gotham.
Rebecca Beamer was her name, but
when l3 years and 6 months old she be-
came Mrs. q. W. Head, and soon alter a
widow. At The age Ol IA ears 5months
and 2S days she again married, aud be-
came Mrs. JOhn Govern. Sue is the
laughter OF soldier, and as minor
uraWs pension from The United States,
WHICH is regularly paid TO her guardian.
she Will draw pension for year ana
half longer before she becomes sweet
sixteen. Her home is in Louisa County,
Iowa.
Olive Logan says the Princess OF
Wales ls exceedingly gentle and pretty,
and she smiles as frequently as u
pleased schoolgirl, yet occasionally an
anxious and nervous expression fits
across her CounLenance, as il she were
enduring sudden and acute PAIN. Her
halr is Of pretty chestnut Drown, and
ls very skillfuIly dressed in Il style that
was Invented Tor hel, and for long |
time worn by no one but her. 4 large |
lalse piece covers the whole top Of her |
head, and from the forehead backward |
is one mass of tiny curls aud dainty
puff; ut the back the usual pIaits OF
pufs finish the couture.
Lady Flora Hastings, daughter of the
ate Countess of Loudoun, and the
liece Ut the unfortunate Marquis OF
Hastings, is about to be married to the |
Catholic Duke Oh Norfolk. The Duke is
he near relative Of the Hon. Gwendo.
inc Howard, daughter OF Lord Howard,
u GloSsop, VINO, by her marriage in 1872,
became Marchiouess OF BuLe, thus ia. ST.
ylng The Premler's predIction-il tie
JArase be admissible Ill this cOnnec-
Ion--that the vert LOChair was TO be
Won back to ProtestauJism by Lady
orlsaude. But Lord Bule il likewise
cousin OF Lady Flora Hastings, his
mother having been daughter OF the
lrst Ma quis OF Hastings. And it is de-
:larea tnao Lady Flora Hastings 10
Mis7 Helen Barry's recent marriage
II England with Major Rolls mas caused
Philadelphia paper tV inflIct the fol-
Cwlng comment upon the public:
"Swee5 Helen Barry, SO they say,
10 wedlock's charms thou turnest,
Resgning MINOR roles IN play
For Major Rolls IN earnest.'