Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-20

DoUBLE-A BOOK FOR FOREIGNERS WHO WANT KicH
AMERICAN wIvEs-soxE WEALTHY NA1DESs AND
wrDows-LADIEs WHO 'cur UP"
Correspondence of THE Evxxue srAn.
NEW YORK, october 10.
This has been q famous week In New York thea
ersI There have been two successful productions,
"Mr. Barnes Of New York" at the Broadway, and
'The Woman OF the Guard, Gilbert and Sullivan's
new opera, at the Casino. The great French
dramatic artists, NJ. Constant Coqueiin and Nine.
Jane Hading, have attracted the culture and fash
ion Of the town, and at every house In town was
some sort of a play successful enough 70 draw the
largest audiences Of the young season.
"rm going over to the star Theater to renew my
youth" said my friend, the alderman, last Monday
night
My friend, the alderman, is gray OF beard. bald
Of hair and wrinkled of visage. but he and Lydia
Thompson were about on par as 10 age and good
looks some twenty.odd years ago, when Lydia nrst
bounded before an American audience.
met my friend, the alderman, Tuesday night,
and asked him II Mime. Thompson had changed
much.
"Changed7 MOI She hasn't aged a wrinkle.
Most wonderful thing l ever knew" said he em-
All the old-timers said the same.
IL Is wonderful thing. There on one side OF the
foot-ights were her old admirers, grizzled old
chaps, some OF them bent and decrepit, and all
| other Side was LYDIA Thompson, apparently the
same as sne seemed score OF years ago, as shapely
as nympn, as agile as q fawp.
-
And talking about Lydia-that reminds me that
many OF the stages legitimate actresses Of to-day
began their histriOnic career In her troupe When
Rose Coghlan, two weeks ago. produced her new
play, "JOcelyn," at Newark, there was much ado
| in the newspapers because Miss C0ghlan, In the
last act, attired herself as knight, and did not
MN a ipsiSfhd
upon doing once when she played R0sditnd. But
Miss Coghlan had not always maintained the pru-
very nrst professional engagement was under Ly-
Ola Thompson, SO that buIlesquer told me herself
this week. and during that engagement she wore
lights OF the tghtest kind.
Writing Of Rose Coghlsn in "Jocelyn," am re-
minded OF something else, which is this: Has VIII
ton Lackaye, of Washington, double? When
went out to see "Jocelyn," at Miners Newark the
| alter, on its first night, was struck with the
strength and quiet effectiveness, with natural
bursts OF passion at times which distinguished the
handsome villain OF the play, Prince Sdpidni. His
face seemed familiar one, and on reference to the
cast OF characters, as printed on the program, /
found that the handsome villain was Wilton Lack
aye, Washington boy whom last saw as Clever
Duck, In Carrie SWANS ''Chip the Little JOKER"
But for weeks had been reading OF Wilton Lack
| ayes great success In Albaugh's "MdSummer
Nights Dream" company. asked COL Morton,
resident manager or Miners Newark theater, and
himself a recent Wash1ngtOnian, II Prince SdUidni
In the play was Washington's Win Lackaye, and
the colonel said there could be NO mistake about
II. But the next week the midsummer Nights
Dream company played in Brooklyn, and the
newspapers over therc praised the acting OF VIII
ton Lackaye In one OF Its leading roles. should
reaily IKE 10 know now VIII Lackaye manages 10
be In two companies at the Same time and yet
highly lauded ior his work in each.
have been permitted peep at new literary
work, which is now in press in this country, but
which Will b. circulated only In Europe. 1t is to
be plain, ordinary looking volume, bound in
cheap cloth, but IL will be sold at price steep
enough for Shakespeare edition de lure. And
the publishers Will take care that the bOOk-ShOpS
do not get hold OF 1t, each purchaser having TO
make application direct to the publishers European
agent. and having beside TO sign agreement that
ne will not loan, sell or permit any one other than
himself TO use the work. Its title is "Ihe Rich
Women OF America" and 1t is issued for the Of
the lnpecuniOuS bachelors or widowers of the mo
biiity OF Great Britain, France Germany and Italy,
In tie preface The compiler explains that by "rtch
women" he means only women whose respective
worldly possessions amount to at least g. 600 0OO
from this charming and instructive volume that
the richest maiden lady or America Is not a resi-.
dent OF these United states, but is a Gillian, the
but handsome into the bargain. Dona IsidOra
owns several valuable copper mines in
Chill, and possesses enough real estate be-
dukes with Chllian auchies The InrOr-
nation that this mlliOnairess Is contemplating a
doubtless cause general pilgrimage or impecu-
NOUS dukes and earlS and counts 10 the world
exposition at the French capital.
The richest widow described in the volume is
MIS-. Moses Taylor, with fortune put down al
s4O,OO0,OOO, who lives in New YORK and Long
Branch ana otaer places, as the mood takes her.
Miss Hetty Green, OF New York, is another advan-
tageous part, who has q snug 100000 GOO and a
penchdnt for constantly adding TO ner Pile in Wall
street-a habit hich, the author thinks may In.
cline her TO zoo practical nature to brook rO-
nance from knights errant and INDECENT.
An altogether desirable parti IRON o monetary
tain TOm," Of Alaska. Mrs. Tom Is a female, with
some indian brood In her veins, VINO has acted for
many years as .Joooer" OF furs, which she has
bought Of the Indian trapperS OF Alaska and sold
at good pront 10 the FUR dealers OF Europe and
America. MIS- Tom Is also the proprietor OF an
extensive estate IN Alaska. on which she has de-
velOped Iron and silver mines, aud on which the
British lord fond or hunting could enjoy no end OF
sport. Mrs. Tom is married. after q fashion which
obtains In Alaska. In fact, up TO a quite recent
date she had TWO husbands, but latleriy she be-
came Christian convert and discarded one OF her
'w orser thirds" The author doesn't say outright
that Mrs. Tom may discard the present incun.
bent, too, before long, but just hints to the nobi
ity that II they can have patience and borrow
money enough to live on meanw nile, they may not
regret 1t il they cultivate Mrs. Captain Tom a BIZ
1t would shock certain 81 the matrons of Wash.
ingtOn TO see how some Of New Yorks swell girls
and women cut up with the aid and abettance Of
| the new 9Th avenue "diligences" which have seats
amount OF courage for the young ladies to climb
| to the lofty submits Of the stages but they did
and when they got there they seemed to have
crossed the Rubicon, destroying all the bridges Of
proprtety behind them and gone In for big time
Every pleasant night one or more parties OF ladies
with Oh without male escorts take possession OF
the d0uble-decker stages at one end OF the route
| and ride 10 the other end and return. Each party
| Is made up OF just the right number TO occupy
every seat on the upper deck, that no other pas
SengerS can get seat except inside
and hence there Is no danger OF intru.
| si0n AS the stage goes up or down
Filth avenue II spreads abroad q chorus OF femi-
nine sQueals, shrieks OF laughter, snatches OF
Jolly, roilicking song and a general hullabaloo
PasserSby stare In amusement or amazement at
the high perched array Of beauty, and the more
the party Is observed The better 1t likes 1t, APP
parently The another night party OF ladies with
| atop OF stage, and at every corner gave three
cheers for Harrison and Morton. When some men
| on the sidewalk at Eighteenth street heard
| the cheers they responded with three groans One
| OF the ladies' made y sarcastic inquiry Concerning
Cleveland OF the men who grOaned; q rather yugar
repartee was shouted back, aud for few moments
while The stage halted 10 take q passenger there
was constant interchange OF gtbes from stage 70
pavement and back again. And these women who
thus readily banded words with strange men
were not 'disreps" Neither were they Vi a low
stratum In the social scale. They were members Of
the best families In New York Only their position
on the stage top and the SURROUNDINGS had intOxi
Gated them into sort OF keSSnesS This species
OF MODIFICATION Is common one to women every
where who have dared 10 do something outre or