The Indianapolis journal., 1886-04-11
OUR NEW YORK FEUILLETON.
Lillian Russelrs Trouble with solomon.


The public loveliness of Lillian Russell is al
ways fretted with private ugliness She always
seems to be having some kind of trouble with
her sold man. Her present old man Is Mr..
Solomon. the imposer of ''Pspita.' He is one of
the cleverest musical imposers we have.
DID you ever regard a domestic broil in an
opera companya It's quite unique When the
parties are both singers the opportunities FOR lit
tie mutual spites smothered in smiles are num-
erous If they have to kiss each other, ten to
one the beaming wife will bite little piece out
OF his ear while her face is wreathed III serene
amiability, or the husband in parting dearest.
but Tor a day." will crack the forehnger of her
right hand in shakingit
But when the husband is the conductor he has
an awful bulge on the better half He can pur-
sue her with brass, and strangle her with
strings, and tease her with tempo, and all she
can do is to pat her little foot and keep on smil-
ing helplessly.
When there is GOODNESS between the orches-
ira and the prima donna the prima donna has to
walk
What the present ''ructon" is with Lillian no.
body can find out But everybody talks about
it. The husband and wife pass scornful notes
to each other on the stage in silence, with the
bitter knowledge that the wife's notes will be
read to all the female chorus and the husbands
notes to all the male chorus before they get into
Mr. J. M. Hills pocket
Whenever petted prima donna has tiff with
her old man the newspapers fan it. One day
last week telephone rumor came to the great
dailies that Solomon had spoken to his wife with
some degree OF GOODNESS. believe a general po-
lice alarm was sent out At all events, battal-
ions of reporters began to move on the Union.
square Theater. The illustrated papers TALL pa
pers are illustrated now set their artists to
sketch the coolness, and the thing began to grow.
Why the public should care a rap about Lii
liam Russelfs little tiffs / cannot understand
but such is the present construction of society
that 1t genius did something in iron or steel
that would affect the entire commercial interests
or the world, the papers would make para
graph about it. But if q comic singer with a
pretty face, has the Mysteries, they will devote
columns to it.
But what | wanted to say was this: that there
is always in a community like New York about
one-thlrd or the population who are secretly and
sweetly mashed on any pretty woman who is ex-
hibiting herself. These young and old noodles
are content to love the actress from the parquette
and hide their alteration in bouquets, pour it
out ON photographs, up to the point where she
has row with her old man, and then they be-
gin to send poems of coincidence and sympathy
to the theater
believe Mr.. Hill intends to get up souvenir
of sympathy the five hundredth night of
"Pepita," and print these offerings.
There must be FIVE hundred hearts that bleed
every time Lillian Russell is annoyed by her old
man. Public opinion then asserts itself, and the
voice of veal is heard in the land
Here Is one of the condoling poems that was
sent to the theater:
Queen Of all that's fair and bright
Lustrous star of noon and night,
Sorrow comes and sorrow goes,
Wipe, 0 wipe away your woes!
Art thou crushed with many sorrows?
Think of all the bright to-morrows
When, from husband once more free
Thou shalt live in liberty.
Here's another:
We feel for thee far one of the lrstrous scene
Beauteous Queen
One manly Hart would share with thee the grief
OF thine sad burden In brief,
Consider that in all the scenes that rue
One patient soul is lea and true.
These are fair samples of the whole basket.
The story that Solomon gets up these tiffs with
his wife to excite poetical sympathy and thus
accumulate material for a new opera libretto
may have some foundation, for. it must be said,
there is a strange resemblance in these rhyme
lets to the work in Polly" and 'Pepita."
NYM CRINKLE.