Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-01-13
Paul Jones in Petticoats.

No doubt the grave and generally baldheaded
city fathers of Pittsburg were unaware of a
vision of beauty that they might have seen had
they looked over ,from their chamber to the
Hotel Duquesne yesterday afternoon. If they
had known that Miss Agnes Huntington was
surveying the Council Chamber with good
deal of curiosity from her parlor window in the
hotel, the city's business interests might have
suffered. Miss Huntington is merry un-
affected, and unlike most prima donne, not
overpoweringly self-conscious. You do not
notice the dress she wears. but you are not
likely to forget the charm of her manner, as
well as the power of her eyes. But Pittsburgers
do not need to be told this: they know it.
The last time l was here" you might have
heard her say yesterday afternoon. was when
here was in .Mignon.' when that dear little
Juliet Corden played the title role for the first
time in her life. How nervous she was. to be
surei And then when she got off the wagon at
her first entrance she fell fiat on her face, and
scared all that was left of her senses out of her.
But she succeeded bravely, though she had an
awful time with her boots later on-she forgot
that running about in stockings would make
her feet swell and she could hardly persuade
her little feet to go into the boots"
Then Miss Huntington went on to tell of her
triumpbs in London, where paul JONES' ran
for year, where she had to hire four ..growl-
ers," as they called the four-wheeled cabs in
the English metropolis, on several occasions to
carry home the bouquets and floral offer
ings sent to her, where everybody from royalty
down, or up was il? to poor ballet girl at the
AIhambra worsh1ped her. and where she made
valuable friends, such as the good Baroness
Burdett-Coutts. Miss Huntington liked the
city and people that did her honor, and though
she is good American at heart, still she will
return to her own theater there next year. The
theater is being built now.
Since she has played "Paul JONES'" Miss
Huntingdon has run across some interesting
little sidelights upon the bold sailors history
When she was playing in Philadelphia the
other day. for instance, she received call from
Colonel Richard Dale. whose grandfather was
Commodore Richard Dale. and at one time First
Lieutenant to Paul Jones on the 'tBonhomme
Richard" Colonel Dale showed her
beautiful god-handled sword, which
was given to Paul Jones in Paris, as an in
scription tells, From Louis XVI to the brave
defender of the freedom of the seas,n and a
medallion of Paul Jones and some of his let
ters In New Orleans the descendants of
another of Paul Jones' associates called upon
Miss Huntington.
One of Paul Jones' biographers describes
him as "a short, thick, little fellow, about
feet in height, of dark, swarJhy complex
ion." But Miss Huntington says that all the
portraits of Paul she has seen represent him as
being of sandy, forid complexion, with hair
of the Scottish tawny tinge. 1t is a fact, how
than the sea captain whose boots she has as
sumed, and it is no 1attery to say that she is
far better looking than Paul in his palmiest
days, even when he strove to play the fop in
Paris.