The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-12-13
Throwing Their Bald-Headed Admirers and
Stage Door Suitors Into Condition of
Profound and Hopeless Melancholy.
The Facilities Afforded Stock Gamblers
in Some of the New York Hotels.
W. Il. Vanderbilts Last Struggle with Gould
for Control of the Passenger Carrying
Business of New York City.
STAGE BEAUTIES.

STAGE BEAUTIES.
Three Professionals Who Have Disappeared
from the View Of the Public.
Special to the Indianapolis journal.
New YORK, Dec. 12.-Three professional beau
ties are lost to the gaze of the front-row adulat
ors and stage-door suitors of the theaters They
were foremost in their kind. and their withdrawal
from the society that lies between footlight
and foyer has agitated the people of those circles
amazingly. Olga Brandon has closed her pecu-
liar career, at least for the time being, by suing
for divorce from her husband preparatory to
| marrying Jose Mercedes. Cuban bankers son,
who has been conspicuous aud earnest admrer
OF her for year or more. Olga came from San
Francisco two years ago, and got an engagement
| at the Madison square Theater at a time when
the management was employing all the very
young and pretty amateur actresses for whom
places in its plays could possibly be made. Olga
was Polish Jewess, wife of H. H. Brandenstein,
and her maiden name had been Lavaroyitch.
She was slender girl Of eighteen to twenty,
with delicate, colorless features and wondrously
big black eyes, which were really her element Of
beauty Dan Frohman was then in control at
the Madison-square, and, as a matter Of business
he forced her into public posture rs a
beauty whenever feasible. sending her to sell
flowers at fairs and benefits, putting her at the
front Of proscenium boxes at other theaters
when not on duty in her own, and thus, by clever
Device soon establishing her firmly as profes-
sional lovely one. The policy of the Madison
square was changed when A. NJ. Palmer be-
came manager. and since then Olga has had no
regular employment on the stage; but she mas
nevertheless been constantly on view, through
occupying boxes on all important opening nights
On these occasions she wore toilets of greater
elaboration than are usual in New York au-
diences, except at the opera; She invariably sat
at the front corner closest to the stage 50 IS 10
face the audience; and her demons.rstiye man
pers compelled attention between acts like an
interlude. Her husband, handsome little fell
low, was nearly always with her, but he made
only one among bevy of beaus who thronged
about her, and latterly his jealousy became the
jest OF the theatrical town. Now Olga has sued
for divorce from him on the ground of nom
support She says in her complaint that he has
had no income other than what she has given
to him since he came from California with her.
She has lived most luxuriously, and he has
betrayed altogether by her. Jose Mercedes has
been an idier here during the past year. 1t il
understood that he will marry the actress as
soon as she is legally free
There is amusement but no surprise for the
theater lobbies in the marriage of JeffersonBern-
stein to Vernona Jarbeau, the actress. jeff has
for several years been familiar figure about
town-a handsome. welldressed little fellow,
will plenty of money to spend; but it rs hardly
true that he belongs to pretentious family as
reported. His father made fortune in the
policy gambling business, in association with
Eph Simmonds and Marcus Cicero Stanley and
was the business manager when the police by
raiding the headquarters Of the swindle in ear
nest abolished that form of gambling in this
city two years ago. The courtship of Miss jar
beau began at Long Branch. five years ago. when
she was spending summer there very gaiiy,
and jeff was with his family in the same hotel,
his sisters and the actress being intimate. The
noted dude, Howell Osborne was then the fa-
vored wooer, but not so exclusively that he was
free from jealousy, which led one evening to a
memorable scrimmage on the veranda. After
ward, for two or three years, Miss Jarbeau was
understood to be betrothed to John Stetson, the
bachelor manager of the Fifth-avenue Theater
where she and her mother usually sat in his pri-
vate box on opening nights. A year ago the en-
gagement was broken off, and she returned to
the stage, since which time jeff Bernstein has
rehearsals No frisker in burlesque had a longer
or stronger vogue with New Workers of the
front row.
The third famous beauty, adored of the dudes.
was Sadie Martinor. She has astounded her ac-
quantances by eloping to Cuba with Tony Ter
ry. Her handsome apartments at &c Madison
avenue are empty, and the young fellows who
used to enjoy her receptions there are now told,
on ringing, that she will not return until spring
1t was announced that she had sailed for Paris.
The truth is that she took roundabout course
for the gay city, if that really be her destination.
on the ocean, but it on a Cuban bound
accompanied her was Tony Terry whose devo-
used to be an impersonator of Irish Colleens for
Boucicault, but more recently she went into
comic opera at the Casino, where she was the
heroine of "Nanon" during the long run of that
piece. Her kissing scenes with Carlton the tenor
were feature of the entertainment, and Sadie
went clear into the lead as professional beauty
The large contingent of actress worshipers at
the Casino gave her preference above all the 9th
er exhibits of comeliness on that stage, and she
also drew number of time e-worn case se-hardeped
clubmen constantly to the boxes No actress in
New York ever got more open adulation than
monial escapade with Terry is a sensational
matings Of Olga Brandon and Vernona Jarbeau,
is making the theater corridors to night almost
tumultuous with chatter.
STOCK GAMBLING.