The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-05-25
MRS. POTTER'S HAT.
How the Society Actress Head
Gear Is Built Up.

near the history OF the hat made Tor
Mrs. James Brown Potter It is typical
case" And thereupon she narrated the
following:-.tW When the rehearsals of
Camille were begun, Mrs. Potter came to
me to order hat. Now Camille is a
nervous woman, fashionable as 60 clothes,
and above all eccentric. Eccentricity,
then, must be the dominant trait of the
hat. But it must also partake of the in
dlFidual taste--the caprice OF the actress
Now, Mrs. Potter knows very well that
one of her principal charms is her wavy,
fluffy reddish hair, which seems always
on the point of escaping from it's pins
and Of rolling down her shoulders. She,
therefore, wished to have her hair show
both in front and behind.
Having expressed this desire she seated
herself before the large mirror and |
placed upon her bright auburn locks the
frame of the longed~foT hat 1t was at
this moment only an unpromising com
pound of crinoline and wire, but patient
ly aud carefully, with many changes and
the most minute alterations, often step
ping back to study the effect, did my
best to adapt the eccentric head-dress to
the actress striking face. In two sittings
the frame was outlined 1t was then
given to the straw sewer, who at once
copied the model Then we began to
look for trimmings that would make the
hat harmonize with the gown. There
was really an embarrassment of choice,
for you know how inexhaustible the mil
liners palette always is, with it's flowers
| fruits, feathers, birds, insects, furs. rib
bons. velvet, lace, pearl, steel, jet; the
entire fauna and flora OF creation agree
! in trying to lend lustre to our works of
! art. Such is the usual history of stage
| hats Ladies see them at the first repre-
| sentation of the play, and If the model
| meets with success every one wants
copy of it..
zone of our best known comic opera
| women wears string OF diamond swal-
lows all around one side of her excep-
| ceptionaliy beautiful head They begin
| with bird two inches from one wing tip
| to the other and end with one not much
larger than a wasp. The effect is de-
| lghtful one, and Is certainly the newest
and best thing out in the way of unique
| jewels. The value of the birds must be
| something like s., 600, and the general i'm
| preston given to those who see them is
| that the actress received them from a
| callow and afifuent admirer, of which af-
/ fair she has many examples in ner train.
But this is not wholly correct suruise.
/ The fact is that party Of club men, who
\ never met the actress personally, desired
| to express TO her their admiration for her
| as an artist, and resolved among them
| selves to do so by presenting to her q
handsome set of jewels.
After careful search the exquisite flock
/ u D1EuS wis d1Te6Q upon. linen. 10
| make the gift possess q still more peculiar
significance, it was arranged that the do
nors should shake dice to see who should
pay for the different sized birds. The
man who made the highest score paid for
the largest bird, and considered himself
| the luckiest of the lot, while the least
| successful shaker WAS only permitted to
pay for the smallest bird, much to his
chagrin, for all wanted to be the big
| gest figure in the donation party Ac-
companied by graceful note the glitter
| ing ornament was sent to the lyric queen,
who replied that of all the fair tokens
from too generous friends this should
1 ever be held the most priceless, and all
| that sort of thing. / think this is the
| first time on record where the members
of a conservative club formed combina-
| ton of affection and made present in
harmonious unison. y
Stage Notes.
A few weeks ago clever French play
| wright of the realistic school wrote a
charming little one-act piece in verse and
! called it .FInfidele." 1t was accepted by
the Paris Vaudeville aud wanted by the
| Odeon. But the omnipotent censors for
! babe its production on moral grounds.
| At last however, it has seen the light at
the Paris Cercle Dramatique, a kind of
refined Theatre Libre, modelled somewhat
on the plan of the London Lyric Club,
where any new work of merit, however
audacious, may be produced. Tickets of
admission, which are eagerly sought
after. are, of course, by invitation only.
The Cercie is, therefore, outside the pale
| of the censorship's jurisdiction.
Like most Of our good things the war
| play craze is now spreading in England.
| Cecil Raleigh has written drama deal
| ing with the Franco-Prussian war and
| the siege of Paris. 1t has been accepted
| by George Alexander, and it will be pro-
/ dnaod of un 6fcfqnt data af
Theatre, London, under the title Of "The
| Coward.
1t is reported that Alfred Collier is to
compose the music for the next Hbretto
that w. S. Gilbert VIII put forth in the
| line of comic opera.
Clyde Fitch. the author of Beau Brum-
| mel, has disposed of q one-act piece, called
"Betty's Finish to Rosina Vokes.
Sarah Bernhardt's indisposltion proved
only temporary Her part in Jeanne
| dare" was taken by her understudy,
Mile. Forgues, for whom this offered OPP
portunity TO displays wealth or unsus-
! pected talent. Mile Forgues is a Con-
/ servatoire graduate, and as Jeanne dare
| is said to have compared very favorably
with the great Sarah.
| Barnum's moral ballet went through
Yale College week or two ago, and the
students thought it was a Woman's
| Christian Association, out for an airing
] Miss Rose Budde-"Are you victim
| TO the Marie Bashkirtseff craze, Mr.. Man
| hattang"
Mr.. Manhattan-''No didn't know she
was in town; don't think she can beat
| Carmencita, though"
Frederick Paulding is recovering from
| an attack Of acute gastritis. He fell
through a trap during the Jefferson
Florence engagement at the Amphion,
Brooklyn, and was greatly FRUSTRATED by
the fall Mr.. Paulding attributes his
| illness partly to the shock he received on
| that occasion.
. Frank Woodson, the well-known come
dian. died at Boston last "Wednesday from
heart failure. He was thirty-eight years
| of ace and was born in Taunton, although
he spent most Of his life in Jersey City.
The failure of Hermann's Transatlan-
| tique Vaudeville company to meet with
financial success in San Francisco is at
tributed to the fact that they charged
$l50 for seats. One dollar is the usual
rate for vaudeville there.
Madame Fursch- Madi is residing in
Paris. Her husband, Henri Verle, died
about month ago, and she is deeply
afflicted by the bereavement
Mile. Reichernberg, the i'tgeaHe of the
| Theatre Franeais, has been on the stage
over twenty years, having made her
debut in 1868 in the Ecole des Maris.