Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18

something to recommend them beyond their
mere social connections and amateur sue
eesSes. One was q noted beauty all the
world over; the other young, pretty and
highly graceful woman. by some este emed
even beautiful Miss de Wolf is spinster
OF uncertain age who habltually wears her
dark hair in the traditional r1nglets OF New
England old ma1dhood. Sne mas long.
bony face irregular teeth with decided
break on one side in them, thin lips, small
beady eyes and angular figure Her bones
seem to pFotrude everywhere. she I'M
presses one as n sort OF an animated hat-
rack. Her features bear the stamp of IL
strong intellectually. To DO her JuStlce,
she seems to be quite as intelligent and eliI-
tured woman as she is represented TO DC
Dy those who know her.
That these friends are powerful Is eTldent
from the fact that one OF them puts up
Sso,OOo to give her this opportunity she Ell,
JOYS IN "Themridor." This gentleman IS Slll
70 De Pierre Lorillard, the great tobacco man,
VINO was friend of her fathers win thls
amount OF money, one of the strongest plays
thaI oardou has ever written, the DeSG
theatrleal manager known to the business,
anu the approval of society" scores OF even
second rate actresses would be sure to sue
ceed. So powerful were these combined IN
nuences that not Il single newspaper IN new
fOrk, so lar as have been ablStO ascertain,
has ventured to tell the truth about it. In
the language of the first nighters they "let
her down easy" Certain it is that if money,
the friendship of the press and the approya!
career on the stage, Miss de Wolfe would
achieve it. Unfortunately for her aspira-
tons and for the aspirations of those who
would follow in her footsteps there is o
greater power that fixes and bestows this re-
ward. That power is the amusement going
public itself. With proper allowance for any
crudities which may be reasonably looked
1or IN the beginning, it is my Judgment that
Miss de Wolfe's stage career will be brief
one. Not even the powerful play, otherwise
excellent cast and magni ficent stage setting
Of "Thermidor" can carry such lead as
Miss de Wolfe.
A Postoffice for Liquors.
"A wellknown upper Broadway resort
is putting in sort of a local postoffice. This
postoffice will consist of private boxes.
There will be no letters in these boxes, al
though q special delivery system will pre-
vail. In short the boxes will each hold a
bottle of whisky and box of cigars, and
possibly a flask or two of other liquors. The
boxes will be rented out to bottle holders
who purchase their rum in that particular
establishment. When man has friend he
wishes to treat he can take him into the
place, produce his private key, open the
box and extract the liquid comfort from
his bottle without being obliged to liquidate
the usual check, This is quite practical, but
it destroys the delightful sensation expert
enced in receiving scent beer check over
the bar on a silver salver, as may now be
enjoyed in place downtown.
Stage People in Flats.
II have been looking for fiat recent
ly," said friend of mine, land was aston
ished at the number of actresses or people
connected with the stage one meets every
where. have been in about 20 houses in
various parts of the Westside, and rarely
ever finished looking at fat without meet
ing m actress, chorus girl or some woman
of the stage about the hall inquired of
the janitor whether actresses made q
speciality of certain neighborhood, and was
informed that every one of the four double
houses of which he had charge contained
men or women connected with the stage.
My curiosity was aroused, and made IN
quiries on this head everywhere went. I
have come to the conclusion, sir, that there
are at least 90 900 actresses and $1,000 chorus
girls crowded away in fats on the Westside
between Thirty-third street and Harlem.
Perhaps my estimate was little too large,
but odor of the stage is so all pervading and
the woman in short curly hair and the
wrapper is so omnipresent that 1t really
seems as If the principal part of the popula-
tion were made up of that profession"
CHARLES THEODORE MURRkY,s
NEW YORK, October II.