Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-12-22

women whose pictures are for sale in the pic
tuIe stores bu. tila custom is bv no means COM
mCY = vet Perhaps the prcttiest Of these is
Iaty Randolph Churchill. one of Leonard Je-
sonas Gau-!.ters. Her pictures are more ex-
tcU=.yc!y sold than that OF any other American
Girl. They had great run IN London so some
cnt"r:risiIic dealer brought several thousand
6: sale here. They went off very rapidly. Mrs
stevens only daughter, who married Capt.
Ias"t. OF London. is rather handsome
""mi'n anu may. perhaps. be classed as next
10 Lady Churchill. Mrs. PaCet. who will be
fnchess some day is to spend this win
ter, by the way. with her mother, in
washington. After MIS-. FACET, in point OF
physical loyeiiEes3 comes Lady MaEdeTyiile,
formerly Miss Yzna@a. and her sister, who Is
now The wife of sir John Lester kye. More
!, Ceiy than any Of these probably. is Miss Clam
b. lain. whose father claims that he will not
.t.i0w her portraits to be sold in America they
are sold in London, however. and it is only q
question oftimc when they will be brought over
here. TCs far Il will be noticed that the only
american girls whose portraits are sold are
those who nave married EnghShmen. Society
here has steafaStiy SCI It's face against the Gus
tom. The entering wed-e, however is enough
hen the fashion once gets fairly started it will
be run 70 death after the usual style Ill New
Yorn. md then dropped. EvcrybOdy's face viii
b. On sale III the galleries for short time, and
then, when il is discovered that it is vulgaT and
low. room will be made for some new custom
from England.
YaNDERBITS GALLERY.
Mr.. Vanderbilt gave an art reception on the
20'h. He has added nearly hundred pictures
to his superb gallery and this was the first occa-
SION they had been on view. They are the works
that the millionaire bought in Paris last spring
His collection Is now rival OF any other in TIE
world. II forms fitting feature to his magnih-
cent house. There il no doub! that SIR. Wander
l1tI has
affectatOn on his part, and he talks with great in
telligence and enthusiasm OF his various works OF
art. No one but men We're asked to his recep-
ton, and the character of the crowd was exactly
like that of any other crowd that attends Mr..
Vandef6iiis entertainments-dec decidedly mixed.
a NEW WIFE,"
Judge Barrels play was sort OF half way
failure. 1t came very near being success and
nobody is to blame but the Judge himself for its
shortcomings. The difficulty about the play is
that it has not enough life in it to keep people
interested. The Dialogues are often bright and
the comedy element clean and clever, but
dramatic action and fOrceful situations are
wanting throughout. The people wander on
and talk and then wander off again. and there
Is nothing thrilling in the whole performance.
Besides this the play leaves muddled impress
sion on the minds of the audience. A young
lawyer falls III love with married woman. and
10y his astutencss and ability succeeds in Sccur-
ing divorce from her tyTanical husband. who
is French count. Then the curtain drops aud
nobody knows whether the lawyer marries the
divorced woman or not. He certainly doesn't
clasp her in his arms in the satisfactory stage
way given by most dramatists and as she in
dignaatly repels his love iii the first part of the
play. we are in doubt whether the lawyer
spends the rest of his life in worshiping the
woman whom he might have loved had he
met ner before her marriage with the French
count. or whether they get in carriage and go
of and get married Immediately after the cur
tain drops for the last time.