Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-11-28
THE GIpDY GIRLS, QUARREL.

A dispatch from Brooklyn states that at
the conclusion of a performance at the
theater, Fanny Davenports wardrobe was
attached by Anna Dickinson, and the re-
mark is made that Fanny will contest the
matter. Well, We should think she would.
What girl would sit down silently and
allow another to attach her wardrobe with
out contesting? 1t is no light thing for an
actress to have her wardrobe attached after
the theater is out. OF course Fanny could
throw something over her, a piece of seer
cry, or a curtain, and go to her hotel, but
how would she look (? Miss Davenport al
ways looked well with her wardrobe on,
but it may have been all in the wardrobe.
Without wardrobe she may look very
plain and unattractive. Anna Dickinson
has done very wrong. She has struck
Fanny in vital part. An actress with a
wardrobe is one of the noblest works of
nature She is the next thing to an honest
man, which is the noblest work, though we
do not say it boastingly. We say che is
next to an honest man, with wardrobe,
but if she has no wardrobe it is not right.
However, we will change the subject be-
fore it gets too deep for us. Now, the
question is, what is Anna Dickinson going
to do with Fanny's wardrobe ? She may
think Fanny's talent goes with it, but if
she will carefully search the pockets she
will find that Fanny retains her talent, and
has probably hid it under bushel, or an
umbrella, or something, before this time.
Anna cannot wear Fanny's wardrobe to
play on the stage, because she is not bigger
than a banana, while Fanny is nearly six
feet long, from tip to tip. If Anna should
come out on stage with the Davenport
wardrobe the boys would throw rolls of
cotton batting at her. Fanuy's dress, ac
customed to so much talent, would have to
be stuffed full of stuff. There would be
room in Fanny's dreas, if Anna had it on,
as we remember the two, to put In
feather bed, eleven rolls of Gotten batting,
twelve pounds of bird seed, four rubber air
cushions, two dozen towels, two brass bird
cages, bundle of old papers, a sack
of bran and bale of hay. That is, in
different places. Of course all this truck
wouldn't go in the dress In any one given
locality. If Anna should put on Fanny's
dress, and have it filled up SO it would
Look any way decent, and attempt to go
to Canada, she could be arrested for
smuggling. Why, if Dickinson should put
on pair of Davenport's stockings, now
for instance, it would be necessary to get
ont a search warrant to find her. She could
pin the tops of them at her throat with a
brooch. and her whole frame would not fill
one stocking half as well as they have been
filed before being attached, and Anna
would look like Santa Claus present of a
crying doll hung on to a mantel piece.
Fanny Davenport is one of the handsomest
and splendidest formed woman on the
American stage, and perfect lady, while
Dickinson, who succeeds to her old clothes
through the law, is small, not handsome,
and auarrelaome female who thinks she
has a mission. The people of this country
had rather see Fanny Davenport without
any wardrobe to speak of than to see Dick
inson with clothes enough to start a second
hand store Peck's Sun.