Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-10-13
STAGE NASTINESS.

Our recent dispatches gave some idea
OF the status OF the Cameron-Debensau
scandal in theatrical circles in New York
City, and fully prepared the way for the
inevitable sequel which now comes to
follow it. Miss Violet Cameron or Mrs.
Debensaude is an English actress, play
ing leading roles in light English opera,
and she is an actress, according to the
opinions OF the able critics OF the New
York press, who would, without her sur
roundings OF social nastiness, be not worth
a third rate place in the line OF people in
her profession. She is said to have lent
her countenance to vile story OF marital
infelicity in which an English nobleman
is concerned, all for the purpose OF Gre
ating desire to see her on the stage,
and for that purpose she has put aside
all that really adorns woman on or off
the stage, and staked her professional
success on the hazard OF the die. The
die is cast and the following from the pen
OF Amos j. Cummings, who is managing
editor OF the New York Sun, tells the
story in his peculiarly brusque fashion:
No wonder that the two notorious English
women now in New York feed and fan their
dirty scandals with such ribald perseverance,
When saw Violet Cameron on the stage the
other night l wondered how much money a
week the most liberal of American managers
would give her without her mawkish advance
agent, BenZine, and her brass-cheeked and
noble manager. The woman is famous,
admired and successful, and yet, without
the atmosphere of gallantry, indecency and
intrigue, she would go unnoticed in the
crowd. 1t is the triumph of filth over
respectability. There are on the Ameri-
can stage dozens of light opera-singers
Marie Jausen, Lille Grubb, Lily Post,
Pauline Hall, Lillian Russell, Vernona Jar
beau, Geraldine Almar, Fay Templeton,
Belle Archer, Mae st. John-the list is prac-
tioally endless-who are brighter, prettier
more graceful, talented and entertaining
than this sluggish and awkward English
woman, yet,who would have the temerity to
put any one me- OF them forward as ,3ti star at the
Casino? The lesson is plain. Filth pays.
The old saw, "Be virtuous and you'll be
happy" as taught by our English visitors is,
BE looose and you'll be rich" The Cameron
woman, bereft of the scurrility which has
made her fame here, would be dear at 800
week; as it is, she is worth thousands.
Mr.. Cummings wrote the foregoing be-
fore the reaction, always sure to come,
had set in, and before the American peo-
pie had a chance to see OF what material
the woman was made in an artistic sense.
The following special from New York
tells the last chapter OF the story;
The engagement of the Lonsdae-Violet
Cameron company at the Casino can already
be pronounced one of the greatest failures
that has occurred in many seasons. The
ticket speculators who invested heavily in
tickets for the first week are badly left
Although last night was only the fourth OF
the engagement, the spectators on the side.
walk were glad to get anything for their
tickets. Some tickets were sold as low as "a
cents and at those figures there was only q
fair house present,
And 30 the Cameron-L Lonsdale-D Duben
saude filth has met a deserved setback