Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-01
PEOPLE OF PROMINENCE.

JULIA MARLowE, who has been playing
| Rosalind so acceptably this season, is only q
years old. She possesses a sweet, girllsh fresh
ness and gentle, tender grace.
JANAUsCHEK has grown visibly older within
a lew years. Her hair is now white and her
cheeks furrowed. Her acting has been COM
| pared to the scattered fragments of a broken
arch that once rose majestically for the glorif-
| cation of art.
MR.. CLEvELAND's friends have observed of
late that he is growing fatter than ever. He
| never buttons his frock coat, as he did when he
was in the White House. but allows it to hang
| in long and ample folds, and as he walks TO and
| from church with Mrs Cleveland Sunday morn
ings, his louuging and shapeless figure is IN
sharp contrast with her slim and symmetrical
form. MI. Cleveland's hair is long, and he has
lost much of the neatness which characterized
his appearance while in the White House.
MRS. WIsTER's first translation from the
| German was "Old Ma'amselle's Secret" which
she took to Mr.. j. B. Lipplncott, and said she
wanted slo0 for it. He glanced over the manu-
script, and with that ready recognition of what
! would be popular he saw he had good thing,
and gave Mrs. Wister a check for the amount
asked. The book proved an immediate sue
cess, and Mrs. Wister has made herself inde-
pendent by her translatons, or rather adapta-
who suggested that the novels should be
adapted instead of literally translated, thus
making them read like original works.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS is 66 years old,
but he looks younger than many men of so. He
is of the meuium height, well-buiit we'll
dressed and well-mannered. His large gray
eyes have genial expr ression, and his manners
| have hearty engaging warmth. He has been
a hard literary worker all his life but he is
very regular, working steadily every day from
8 to g. with an hour or two at night. He spends
two or three hours every day in the open air,
walking several miles every afternoon. AS the
editor of Hdrpe,'s Weekly, he has to read
much current literature, including all the nov
els of Howells and James, but his salary of
So, GOO a year is some compensation.
HARRY WATKINS, the veteran actor, is one
of the last survivors of that band of players
who acted with the elder Booth. He played
Ottello to Booths Idgo, and Idgo to his
Othello. He also played with Mrs. Mowatt,
Edwin Forrest and Macready. The old man
grows enthusiastic when recalling Junius
Brutus Booth. HE was a born actor but he
added study to his native genius, and was one
of the greatest tragedians the world has ever
seen. The moment he stepped upon the stage
he threw off his own individuality entirely, and
became Richard, Idgo, OtheIlo, Hamlet, Macbeth
look upon his like again." exclaimed Harry
Watkins, and there was an unusual sadness in
his voice. .-..-
COLONEL A. DUDLEY MANN, who died re-
Gently in Paris. was very prominent figure in
American politics a quarter of a century ago.
He was one of the ENJOYS sent abroad by the
Confederate Government with view of secur-
ing the recognition of the Confederacy. His
mission was to Central Europe. and it was he
who presented the letter of jefferson Davis to
Pope Plus TX, to which the Pope sent the
famous reply commencing. "Illustrious Presi-
dent" but His Holiness did not recognize the
independence of the Confederacy. Colonel
Mann was one of the founders of the North
German Lloyd Steamship Company. He ar
ranged the first treaty between Switzerland
and the United States. He was sent abroad by
President Pierce at the time our Government
vas considering the purchase of Cuba.