St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-14


New York World.
eff all the mothers and daughters of So
ciety were to go on the stage there wouldn't
be any society, would there?"
swell, hardly-that is, what you call So
ciety."
'.Well, they are all in danger of going.
Nh. Gus FrOhman is out with Iasso look
ing for society girls, and Mrs Thurber has
let down the bars of opera and invited them
all in. What's the consequence? Sim
ply this: There isn't good
looking belle in town that doesn't
see a new chance OF being a prima
donna without being professional, and
you can't let your youngest daughter out
for promenade without running the risk
of having her caught by society manager.
Oh, you needn't draw yourself up in that
style! know what you are going to say.
You have brought your daughters UP differ
ent. Oh, yes, we all do. They have a
contempt for professional life-are to be
wives and mothers and all that, of course,
and do their duty to their race and live in
the holy secluson of thingamy with high
and modest what dye call it. But they
won't"
Wont! What do you mean by being
ungrammatical and insulting? To be either
is annoying, but to be both is shameful"
Il mean that Frohman has got his lasso
around their seventeen beautiful necks. If
you steal up tonight into the sacred privacy
OF their seventeen bedrooms and turn down
the spotless counterpanes of innocence you
Will see the seventeen red marks on their
throats'
1T is false-false as" ''Calm your
SELF In these crises of the heart it is well
TO govern ones feelings. l know your
daughters; have met them at receptions
at Windsor Castle and Newport. One of
them, Oracle, is elocuting at the Inter-
national school-well, that's where they
may lit themselves for the stage. There's
Minnie. She's at the Royal American Con-
seryatory-well, that's where Mrs Thur
Der expects to get her prime dome. One
OF them has been rehearsing Camille for a
month to join society company, and the
| other is well up in Martha and the Trova-I
| tore. They have their astral eyes set on
the stage. Let me see. There is the beau
tiful Maud. She is going to rehearsalst
every night when you think she is purling
the innocuous roller skate. Frohman has
| got his eye on her,"
leaned against the railing of the Hotel
Royal, sick at heart. He went on:
las for Pauline, I saw her at private
O-AAAicioiOll ouo Sl1C DCSSCu DIo uOb W Say
| anything to you. She said her stage name
was Iodine or Irene, or something, and you
were not to know it until she made hit >"
In the name of mercy" gasped, ''de-i
sist." But he kept pulverizing my bud un-
der his feet and went ON, pitilessly:
LAS for the other girls, they are in thet
chorus at the
''Stop! command you,'' I cried. sIf;
you breathe that word I shall not be re-
| sponsible for my acts
my dear fellow, wasn't going to say.
that word. They are not at the Casino,
but at the American School of OPERA
| AT this point I drew myself up as well,
as l was able, and with a sad heart and
some dignity replied:
II thank you, sir. [ shall inform the
mother of the seventeen, and thus restore
them to their normal condition.
you will pardon me-" said Denyke,
but the mother is a member of the Social
Protective Guild for the development of
art, and is going to dance for the benefit of,
the society at its entertainment. Frohman
| has got her on his list"
81 remember nothing more. When I
came to myself they were pouring seltzer-
water on my head in the Hotel Royal, and
l had a faint recollection of seeing Gus
Frohman with seventeen red buds in his fell
grip" =