The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-09-16

selvesl it was about as elaborate by careful pre-
arrangement as the stage representation. aud
the entire ball assemblage crowded around it 10
see il done IL it had been really stage per-
Torrance. and were to give you theatrical
slang term 10 express it. should have to say that
Amslie ''hogged" it all But that is not an ele-
CANT expression. although Its meaning simply Is
one actor or actress in the scene commands all
the attention of the spectators. That was true
OF the audacious young novelist She was grace
full in her poses and movements, and one couldn't
help recalling descriptive passages from her
wicked story and applying them to her own SIN
nous aud somewhat alluring appearance in the
minuet4
New York doesn't seem to be any longer quite
good enough for some of the New Workers.. The
set Of people who wound MP their season with
final ball this week will mostly go thence to
Lenox. in the Berkshire hills Of Massachusetts,,
where they will kill time until well into Octo-
Der. Not until about the lst OF November will
they deign to return TO the metropolis, and even
then we shall not have the Vanderbilts FOR the
winter. Both Cornelius Vanderbilt and Will
lam K Vanderbilt have planned to pass the sea
son in London. The boarded-up doorways and
windows Of their N snsions IN Fifth avenue VIII
not be reopened. They will leave the manage
ment OF their railroads 10 Chaucey N. Depew,
and their extensive charities to various trusted
agents. The certificates of their ownership,
we'll along towards 5000, 200, 900, are packed
away in the vaults of the Lincoln Deposit Com
pany, in Forty second street under the general
caro- Of ex-Postmsster-general Thomas a.
James, who 10 presidentof the Lincoln Bank, In
the same premises. But the combination Of the
locks is known only 10 Corne.
lus and William X. themselves They will
simply cut of coupons enough 70 cover
their expenses while abroad, and deposit them
with the London banking house of the Roths-
childs. to be drawn from as occasion requires.
Cornelius Vanderbilt has leased the London
residence Of the Duke Of Switzerland. and Will
lam K Vanderbilt has taken the Lansdowne
mansion. These buildings are spacious and
fine They will be goSgeously furnished anew
by the two Vanderbilt families, oil the present
contents being removed to make place for en-
tirely new furniture and embellishments.
Nor will anything be taken over from
the New York homes OF the tenants. Every
thing will be bought abroad, and London socie-
ty is going TO be dazzled by the displays OF
wealth. Not that there will be any thing shod
dyish about IL. The present Vanderbilts, al
though their father did not inherit the old Com
modores millions until they were grown TO
manhood were brought mp to luxury, and do
not show any Of the common indications or sud-
den enrichment. Therefore. we need not feel
afraid that London will get q bad impression OF
New York manners through the Vanderbilts'
winter festivities.
The women Of New York have lost an idol by
great deal Of talk. spoken and printed. about
the recent Adonses of the stage. Belsw, Dixey,
Kelsey and other professional beauties have
strusted Broadway. full of manifest vanity. aud
about soulful tailors images. But at no
time was Wallack superseded in the esteem of
feminine Gotham as the handsomest man they
had ever seen. For q period Of fully
forty years he enjoyed this distinction, and no
body can recall that he ever. By tho slightest
word look, betrayed the selfsatisfsction
which be couldn't have helped feeling. Always
dignifsd. courtly aud affable, he never seemed
to be on exhibition, and he could walk through
an sdmirin: multitude IN Broadway with the
easy demeanor Of a man saunteriug unobserved
along a country road. Right ND to his final dis
appearance Ira. ,n from P %s.n places, s1 ;5e
eight years old. the youngest girls
were as rspt in adulation Of him % were those
who had become mothers and grsudmothers
since his advent into New York life. And after his
death it was vast multitude. seven eighths
feminine, which filed past his open coffin as Is
stood in rhe churchyard after the funeral serv-
ices, to get last look at his wondrously pre-
served good looks. They may call Wallack a
spendthrift, g man careless OF some of the con
ventionalities, but in his public bearing he was
q model.
A big, handsome, voluptious looking stage
figure 10 that Of Blanche Marsden. daughter of
the play wright, Fred Marsden, who committed
suicide on account Of her misbehaviour. She has
made his deadly grief reasonable by her conduct
in becoming vocalist at Roster & Bisis con-
cert hall. That is repulsively wicked place,
notwithstanding the fact that quite fashion
able people, for the sake Of exploit, sometimes
occupy its gallery boxes and peep from
behind the screening curtains 20 novel sights
in the main asaemblage quite as much on the
stage. Blanche has q babyishly pretty face,
and her voice Is fresh aud young; but her cos
tunes Of the most disclosing patterns known
to burlesque. and she accompanies her
songs with winks, Rrimaces ard kicks
Che Of her dittiss has for . refrain,
"Only q kiss-nothing more" and II
goes TO the extreme 10 sugTestiveness, although
It's words are not in themselves at all shocking
At every repetition of the kiss and that is
very oftsn, man in the oreherra operates
what oppose should be called mech anieA
kisssr. At all events, il is q device that makes
q sound in close imitation Of q human
kiss, but loud as q hundred kisses
would be t fred Of simultaneously
That - meant to lead the audieD,e in kisses
responsive, 30 far as sounds 70. to those deliv-
cred by Blanche in her chorus ThNs the girl
comes as near TO kissing an entire Roster q
Bal audience as circumstances viii Der nit. For
the sake Of poor. brokenhearted Fred Mars den,
il is to be hoped that be cannot see, from, where
ever he is, what goes on IN Roster &c Bisl's hall
CLARA BtLLE.