The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-21


table, and handed it to his friend with
out word. The latter received it indo-
lently, disengaged from his fob pocket
pair of eyeglasses, placed them across
the handsome curve of his nose, and be-
gan to read the telegram with a sigh
Meanwhile the general, with certain
air of tragic satisfaction, repaired to the
mantelpiece and repeated his late trans
action with the decanter and tumbler
He then resumed his chair, still in silence.
Jocelyn had by this time reread the
telegram more than once, had said
HHumph!" in several tones, and had bit
ten his lip and pulled at his side whiskers
rehectively. "Well," he observed at
length, returning the paper to the other,
''she has played it pretty low down on
you, lingo, and no mistake! Any idea
what's got into herr"
The general lifted his shoulders and
eyebrows and spread out his hands. He
had temporarily become as voiceless as
he was just now voluble. He was en-
joying the dignity of unutterable wrongs
"Any row about terms?" pursued
Jocelyn.
| The impresario smiled scornfully, as
one who could not deign to correct such
an insinuation.
/ ''Must be something, you know" said
Jocelyn. "a woman doesn't throw away
twelve thousand dollars week for moth
ing Depend on it you've stepped on
her toes somehow. I'll tell you what it
may be-you haven't put about any
photographs of her. Of course! What
are you thinking of"
Eyes, you are one of those fellows that
think they can fix everything in five
minutes" growled the impresario,
breaking silence at last. CHOW just
you look at this" He held up broad,
square topped forefnger. THAT woman
has never had photograph, nor any
sort of picture, made Of her in her life.
She won't allow it to be done. That's
her fad, and, by Jupiter, it's pretty
smart of her, when you come to think
of it,"
''Homely, is she? Has to depend on
her voice. l see.''
''You don't see an inch before your
nose! She may depend on her voice
when she's nothing else to depend on.
There's not another voice like it ever
been heard in America; but-homely
Well, | saw her last year in st. Peters.
burg. and if ever I set my eyes on a
handsomer woman I'll take em out Of
my head and give 'cm to her! No, sir
I'm judge, if any man is, and say
that for face, figure and movement
there amt her equal on the stage to
day."
Then why the deuce
Exactly. That's just it. Why tht
deuce? is the whole thing in u nut
shell. Everybody says it, and whats
the result? Why, that everybody's ter
times as hot to see her as if they all hat
her picture tucked away in their breas
pockets, or their watch cases, or on theil
mantelpieces, if they're chelors. Shs
makes on it every time. She knows
that any woman can be made to lool
handsome in Il photograph; but she's TIT
only handsome woman before the public
whose photos never been seen. tel
you, sir, curiosity, if it's managed well
will make two dollars where beauty o
anything else will make one. There
no advertisement ever came up to il
And to work up curiosity has been tina
woman's pet scheme from the start
There's more stories going about her
and scandal and fewer facts than yo-
can put your fingers on. i = Oh
she's smart.
'She's oyerdone it this time" Jocely
remarked s''Unable to keep my cor
tract is what her telegram says; wi
pay forfeit How much is that, by tn
by"
bah! would as lief take ten cents
Am a man to Cry about little money
That amt my trouble. But here | ar
) with my opera house built, and my post
, ers out for three weeks back, and &C
vertisements and paragraphs in ever
paper in the Union, and everybody O
, their beam ends to get the first sight c
the great Russian prilna donna Cthoug
whether she's Russian, or Irish, or Amer
lean, the devil only knows: it's Just VIVA
she's mind to call it), and my grea
!, prinla donna drops me a telegram thu
she amt coming, by Jupiter! A mic
figure she makes me cut, don't she? Her
. | am, with a public record of fftee
years, and never once disappointed a
:. audience. or kept them waiting, or faile
to give them their moneys worth, an
now, after all my labor and plannin
and contriving, this is the reward I get
to be made q fool Of! The jewel reput;
ton, that's what she's robbed me of! L
sooner she'd done me out of million
But I'll be even with her, as sure as II
lingo, if have to send her an ounce {
dynamite in a jewel case!'
''She's never been heard in this cour
y try, has she:"
,, mo, nor in England either. | don
7 suppose there's another man besides Ii
in New York today that has ever hear
= or seen her. She's kept herself on IL
:, continent and sung for royalty and kej
!, herself out Of peoples way, as if 81
= were royalty herself-that's been h
:, game. And a first class game it is, to-
!, when woman can afford to play it,
!, she can. She never hollers for hersel
she lets the others do it for her. An
! that's why the public will pay higher
listen to her-if they could only get b,
= than to any other woman that sing
and ! travelled 5000 miles and spel
: close on to two million dollars just
4 they might have what they wanted, an
= this is how get left"
= Cant you get any other''-
a ANY other? Oh, yes; dare say;
+ course! | think | can see EN- when
: propose it! Why, they've been TIL
:, jealous of this new woman, as they ca