The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-08-23
SOCIETY LADIES IN DEMAND.

OPPORTUNITIES oFFlRED TO THKA AT BOOTH s
rHEAlRE-MR. HARRY PALMER MAKING Sc.
LEcTIoNs FOR THE HISTORICAL DRAMA ''JAN1
SHORE"
It pity that society young ladies should be jns
now engaged Ia the Improbable occupation OF ritter
ing away thor time At Long Branch, Newport OF
Saratoga, perhaps IN the European capitals, foI
they miss an opportunity OF entering on tho path
which leads 10 fame and emolument, and which Will
not como round to Thorn again In lifetime Some
six OF number least, could be launched forth
on q career OF opulsnt promise and under the
most magniAcens auspces, always providing
that they complied with the sxacting condition
OF being stylish" young ladies, and that they were
oil good figure and Of graceful and generally propos-
sessipg appearance. Those superb advantages they
could have secured BY applying yesterday at noon,
to Mr.. Frank Little, Booths Theatre The occasion
which thus opened TO Thorn an opportunity which
they have forever forfeited Is the contemplated pro-
duction month OF The historical drama, .Jane
Shose, wherein Il seemed wise to the management
tuas society ladies' society ladies only should be
permitted 10 enact the parts OF grand court damcs
Is net averred that they would have been much bur-
tuntes in tho matter OF deport that would have
delighted the heart OF rurveydrop.
COMMODORE rookER ABsTRAcTED.
Noon came yesterday at Booths Theatre a. we'll a.
the OF the Indies Of society
absent IRON Twenty-tnlrd street and sixth avenue
On the sidewalk stood Commodore Tooker. nrm and
erect when sreads deck OF his SHIP
Plymouth Rock, ana by his gallant bearing reDukes
his IuOberly uadsriings when the mountainous sea
bolIs ON the dangerous New9urg coast and down the
Hudson gorges the winds come roaring. His clear
and steadfast eye nan lar away look which has ae
Quired distant horizon on tempestu.
Gus nights when, as Ruskin would put It, the light
house % Qnsnched IN foam, aud his 6ronzed and
weather beaten oneek was trife paler than usual
'sIbey must come, they viii come" be mugtsrod In
his reveris. "rne advantages whion we offer are 700
great to DO neglected"
AZ TINS point the writer touche cd him on the shoul-
der. aroused him from MIS- abstraction and ventured
to HIM that The apparent dsarth VI society ladies' was
doubtless oy the large fashionable exodus 10
aDoubilcss," said the Commodore: "but then you
lhey don't like to come publicly. We had some
here yesterday and there up stairs pres-
cut. There are others going up now"
'Of course" said shs writer interroeativey, thsss
ladies reside in The most fashionable quarters OF she
city-on the principal avcnussT'
s'Unquestionsbly," was the response. "host OF
them Filth avenue-South Fun svenuc," added
the Commodore, with jocose lecr; "but como UP
stairs - and the writer wsLt with his ataDis guide.
A DELICATE POSITION.
Mr. Harry Palmer tue PARIS who IS TO choose
between the fair oneR
~ thought that was your ofnce," said the HERALD
rcproseu taiive TO Commodore ro0ksr
swell" said the later msdsstiy, ''Mr Palmer ex-
amines them intellectually. l observe quietly that
they are physically suted,"
AND tben Inc society IaIics rom South Flnh avenue
came into the agsriai Offices uAd spoKe in q low
tone 10 Mr. Palmer. Some Of them wore modest.
quiet girls without experience others had played"
u various parts before ana wou.d ,ot DO the least
nervous suddenly called upon TO take the role OF the
leading lady. O,nors again had magnncspt names
There was Agnes Do TourviIle and Gertis De
Fonts among them, and every otner applicant was
young ladies' we're aooo panied BY their motnsrs,
VINO spoke words OF high encomium concsrnins their
daughters
fond parent, and u lookso 40 u shs spoke the
simple rruih. Her connolly daughter wAs told ~ call
euuac others Informed that they WOuId