St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-24
GOTHAM TOWN GOSSIP.
A Story That Fanny Davenport Bought
Her Husband From Kitty Baker
for Hard Cash.
How the Deal Was Made-The Many Do
nestle Infelicities Of the
Stage.
Racy Sketch of Mons1gnOr Capel--
His Supper With Senator Jones
and Editor Pulitzer.
Yo. Jim Blaine's Father-fn-Law
Ills Experience With Gov.
Chase'S Boot.
New York Notes.

Special Correspondence of the Globe.
New YORK, Oct 21.-Fanny Daven-
port, the actress, has lately published an
article in the Brooklyn Magazine, on the
frequently recurring questions: lis the
Stage Immoral?" Still the question is not
settled, and the article opens up no new
field of discussion. 1t no doubt served one
purpose, however. the fair lady's thrusts
with the pen just preceding her opening in
the theatrical season. She has, for the
present at least, dropped Fedora" and
ESSAYS Beatrice, in Mach ado About
Nothing" She will probably never have
another play that will bring to her fame
and fortune as Sardou'S great piece did.
1t belongs to the robust, impassioned and
intense school of
THE DRAMA,
and although much admired among the elite
of play patrons, it required no. deep intel
lectual effort on the part of the performers.
SardOu was the brains of the performance,
and all the theatrical company had to do
was to give the play emotional and physi-
cal embellishments. The part of Fredora
was very exhauSting, and after playing at
matinee and night entertainment on the
same day, Miss Davenport was usually
obliged to keep her bed on the following
day-Sunday.
Until this season Miss Davenport has
never appeared in any character play but
Fedora" since she brought that remarka-
BILE drama from France, with the exception
of one night She returned to her old role
of ROsalind at the second Cincinnati dra-
matte festival. And thereby depends a
rather interesting story, which the news
papers delicately suppressed at the time.
Miss DavenpOrts husband is Mr.. Ed Price,
who was formerly the husband of Miss
Kitty Baker, also a professional. For a
long time there was story current that
Kitty
GAVE UP HER HUSBAND
for cash in hand paid by her present mat
rimonial successor: but, of course, nobody
can verify it, Several stars, with their
companies, were engaged for
tine festival, and Miss Baker was in one of
them. The opening piece was Julius
Caesar" and there was considerable disap-
pointment on account of Miss Davenport
failing to occupy box and witness the
performance A distinguished actress, ex-
pensively dressed and sitting in procen-
ium box, is almost as much of an attraction
as she is when ragged OUT for work be-
hind the foOtlights. Miss Davenport ex-
cused herself on the ground that Julius
Caesar" was the last play in which she
had seen her distinguished father. the late
Edgar l.. Davenport, andthe sight OF some-
body else enacting Brutus would make her
melancholy. Most people intimate with
the circumstances preferred to believe that
she did not wish to be brought into such
public association with Kitty Baker, who
was Lucius to the Brutus of Fred Warde.
About this time Manager Bob Miles dlscOv-
cred, barely in time to make the necessary
changes, that he had cast