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she is tall and very slender, the long, slim
waist mere span for four fingers, the swan
like neck a delicate column of purest mar
BILE. Like the generality of tall, slim people,
however. the hands and feet are not over
small, and this circumstance NAV, perhaps,
be considered the sole drawback to the girls
exceeding youthful loveliness. According
to every rule of art the face is simply per.
feet. Long, almond-shaped blue eyes softly
shine behind the veil of dark fringing
eyeashes; the nose is from the antique.
straight, the pure Grecian, no indentation
at the base of the forehead. Your egg
for breakfast will give you the delicate out.
line of the rounded chin; the forehead
broad, low, furnished with masses of curl
ing yellow hair the yellow Of the canary's
plumage; a tint to which one may apply
the Italian adage, that if not true it is at
least well found. En- somme incontestably
the most beautiful woman on the London
stage. Yet beyond this exquisite exterior
there Is something lacking; that element of
charm We call soul" that sympathy, that
'touch of nature which redeems the most
untoward physiognomy; which makes .'the
ugly Fanchon' lovelier than the village
beauty, Madelon. Ii is true, Violet is very
young Spirituality may cast its beauteOus
light upon these rather rigid, perfect fea-
lures later on. l think she made her first
appearance upon the stage at the time
Lydia Thompson was managing the Folly
Theater, and Violet was lone of many in
the beguilement Of the Thompsonian bur-
lesques.
Being so beautiful Violet attracted atten-
ton from the first, and Labouchere's Truth
printed a publishing story about her to the
effect that some men about town one night
occupied q private box near the stage at the
Folly who were seen to be wearing an odd
Nr plnvac-hlaal Ii i6 n th,tf, ,l,S
and that the audience were dSgusted to
observe that a handsome girl on the stage,
called by the playbi Miss Violet Cam
eron, was equipped with the same unusual
and remarkable gloves, thus showing a
shameless understanding, etc. The very
next issue of the paper printed spirited
and sensible reply from Violet, in which
she said that the gloves were a part of her
costume, as provided for her by the man
agement, and she could not help wearing
them, no more than she could pievent any
one in The audience doing so, if they chose
but she certainly had never noticed any one
on any occasion wearing gloves like these.
She then threw herself on the generosity of
the editor to spare her implications of this
sort. as she was little more than a child,
the youngest actress on the London stage,
being only thirteen years old. That was
about FIVE years ago. Her singing voice is
NNNSPeiOiiohs SOON, aho oiiOc htA uNh oiSC-
ment to leading part-that of the gnose-
girl witch in la Mascotte." TO see her in
which all London is thronging to the new
Comedy Theater in Panton -street-she has
thrown off that dullness aud inanimaton
which used to mar the effect when she was
playing second fiddle at the Strand TO
Florence st. John, and now shows herself to
be satisfactory actress
Her beauty was never seen to greater ad-
vantage than in this piece, and colored por-
traits of her, in the barnyard costume of the
first act, will form part of the attractions of
several ILLUSTRATED Christmas numbers of
favorite periodicals. Violet has had several
offers from America, but never one which
her mother has thought good enough TO ac-
cept. She has declined $l00 week and
$3.50 a week from two managers of New
York. Violet is understood to be a per.
fectly chaste girl, her mother, her constant
guardian. and it is pity the villain LEROY
should have dragged her name up in con
nection with his own reviled one. And vel
| who knows? Public life is SO strange
thing that the murderers passion for the
girl may enhance her vogue, particularly a:
| tits quite clear she never knew the man
nor even saw him.