St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-23

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~ feSsional success
of London, in a
lighter way, is Agnes Huntington. at
the Prince of Wales theater. Not only
is she an artistic, but an overwhelming
social success. The stately blonde
woman. with eyes now like dewy VIC
lets, now like burning stars. has but to
hold out her hand and it is grasped by
the most conventional leaders of En-
glsh society.
Her matinee recital at the white hall
rooms of the Hotel Metropole for the
benefit of English theatrical charities
and the Johnstown sufferers was a So
cial ovation. The tea which followed
in an adjoining salon gave an oppor-
tunity of interchange of civilitieS be-
tween the most prominent English
women of rank and representative
Lady Drummond Wolff, Countess
Isaac Henderson, the English novelist
aud wife; Lady Gordon, Mrs. Mackay,
Minister and Mrs. Lincoln. Mr.. and
Mrs. FL. L. Horton, of New York; Earl
and Countess Radnor, Earl of Arran,
Lady HarcOurt, Mrs. John Meiggs, Lady
Mackenzie, and Sir Lyon and lady Play
fair were among the large gathering
who listened to the sweet voice of the
American cOntralto, and partOok of her
hospitality.
This after-performance tea would be
an agreeable innovation upon the fiat
ness of a New York benefit, for which
everybody buys tickets and which no
one cares to attend. Why does not
some swell artist catch the idea?
An English affair without tea is quite
impossible. 1t affords opportunity for
introductiohs and scope for bit of
gossip, which is the Sweetener Of tea.
New Workers would think an artist mad
to charge guinea for ticket. but no
one objects over here. Professional
rates of all sorts are enormous COM
pared with those of the most expensive
American cities. 1t is these details
which render life in England and on
the continent so costly.
AGNES HUNTINGTON'S CHARMS.
Miss Huntington's social success has
been largely due to her charming ways
holds the fancy of women as a general
would that of his men. She is sweet
simplicity, but quite English in dress
and accent. Her massive physique and
wOmanly charm are too much for the
average English Woman's GOODNESS.
They send her flowers and ask her to
their houses, and crowd her salon at the
Hotel MetropOle Oh Sunday from to 5
o'clock.
Many of these titled danes bestow
jewels, and other souvenirs of admira-
ton upon the fair-baired songstresS,
whose fancy runs to sapphires, and is
INDUCED in to the extent of finger and
throat, glistening with the dark blue
stones against their setting of diamond
light. With the exception of a string
OF pearls, she wears no other jewels,
and this style is now quite the rage.
Miss Huntington'S only superstition
is concerning this stone, which she says
has brought her good fortune. She is
regarded as mascot by managers.
herself fails, and all that she is with
succeeds.
Dramatic charm may explain this as
we'll as the mascot superstition, although
| Agnes Huntington has had marvellous
| escapes from accident, and really ince
her student days in Germany she has
| seemed to bear charmed life, which
! has floated her into fame and fortune.
Her gowning is exquisitely simple,
either pale pink crepe de chine, without
ribbon or lace, mode color, tailormade
| gowns, or the artistic costumes of Paul
Jones, in which each evening she cap
lures her audience and responds to cur
tain calls, her hands filled with baskets
| of superb flowers.
"Paul Jones" ought to make a hit if
transferred to New York stage, al
though know not one singer there
who could compare with Agnes Hunt
| ingtOn In the difficult part. Its eXac-
lions consist in physical rather than in
musical requirements. The dashing
lover must be tall and soft of speech
and gentle of touch. Isabelle Urqu-
| hart in gifts of nature most nearly APP
proaches the ideal Paul. but she lacks
magnetic charm, and her eyes have not
the seductive power nor her face the
Miss Huntlngton's audiences with a
wave of delight and ruff1e the repOSe of
the elegant Courtenay Thorpe into prac-
tical demonstrations of pleasure. Her
brown velveteen, with dashes of red,
throws out the gold in the girls hair,
| and loose, creamy shirt softens the
masculinity of her shoulders and gives
her the charm of an ideal free-lance
lover, who braves the sea and dares fort
| une to place the price of her hand al
his lady's feet.
| PHYLLIS BRoUGHTON.
| Another attraction in paul jones' is
Phyllis Broughton, who has just won
| the famous suit against her recreant
lover. My lords lather had to settle tC
the tune of $4,000, trifle for the heart
of the pretty SOubrette and danseuse.
An expression in Miss Broughton's
| face reminds one of Mrs. Langtry in
her palmy days, when the fair English
skin was unlined, and the roSe-tinge
had not left it. Phyllis Broughtor
never bore comparison with the Jersey
Lily, except in the contour of the lower
part of her face. She is intensely
variety style in bearing and ways. She
glares at the audience rather than co
QuetteS with it and ogleS shamefully al
her men friends in the boxes. The
hardness of her face and her metallic
voice render her most unpleasing, bui
he dancing is artistic.
The breach between Agnes Hunting
ton and Zelie de Lussan can never be
healed, and Miss Huntington's recita
of her woes, while with the Boston
Ideals under Mr.. Fosters management
is most dramatic. She declares that she
was not allowed to take her curtain
calls, and her, as the result OF
| jealousy, was emphatic. These profes
sional iealousies are the canker worms
in the flower of dramitic success.
The Empire theater is great attrac
ton to the gilded youths of England
and America, and since the visit of the
shah 1t is quite the caper for box parties
of most proper Americans to visit the
glittering place and gaze upon the won.
ders of the ballet which so delighted
the shah and his royal party. There is
no place in America which compares in
brilliancy or in gaudiness with the in.
terror of the Empire. Some American
manager might take his cue from the
spacious stalls and luxurious upholstery
| The female attendants are mostpropel