The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-03
INGENUES OFF THE STAGE
ACTRESSES WHOSE BUSINESS IT 10
TO MAKE PEOPLE WEEP.

| we USED 10 nave eOuDreIL6s. NOW we
have ingenues. IAN ingenue," says Fife
Shannon, ''is soubrette with the corners
shaved offH-a dear little girl of 16, just out
of school, very full of wonderment at this
big world, very anxious to take hand in
the fun. Not yet quite resigned to the part
| ing with her dolls, she has nevertheless
partially consoled herself with a youthful
sweetheart, who is conspicuously in the
foreground, while perhaps there is a more
serious lover looming up indistinctly in the
background.
We may guy the hero, we may not get up
the shadow Of decent hatred for the viii
lain, we may even laugh at the leading
lady's woes, but from box to gallery We all
like and applaud the ingenue.
| So identified are the ingenlLs actresses
| with their roles that it is often hard to
separate them from their parts and realize
they are anything more than the little girls
they seem. Efie Shannon, dear to the
| hearts of every theater goer az the typical
| young maiden, with her first boy sweet
heart, is in reality young rnatron-the
| wife of Henry Guy Carleton. In q chnrm-
| ing fat over on Lexington avenue she and
her husband live with her mother and
| sister.
She has Just got up, the maid tells me,
when / ask for her, but if will wait she
will see me directly. So I walk into a
| coZy, sunny room, filled with books and
pictures and bric-a-brao, all arranged with
the most exquisite taste.
| Presently there is swing of portieres
and turn around to see Miss Shannon in a
scarlet bath robe, fastened with a huge
| girdle, her light hair in fluffy little rings
upon her head, her fair skin all pink and
| glowing from her bath.
| She is very busy, she tells me, over the
entertainment to be given by the Twelfth
| Night Club. and she was mover so nervous
| over any part as her role of the typical
slangY, American girl in the little play
written by one of the members. To those
who have admired Miss Shannon as Kitty
Ives, and loved her as the simple, ingenu-
GUS Bess with her first love affair, it will
probably be great shock to hear her talk
slang, although she says she has a sneakiug
fondness for slang, because it's so expressive
/ and so brief
| Miss Shannon is Boston girl, and it may
be interesting to know that her first role
was Eva in "Uncle Toms Cabin" After
this she played several small parts until she
made her first hit as Edith" in Tangled
| Lives" Since then she has played with
Daily and at the Lyceum. Miss Shannon's
favorite roles are not comedy roles. She
| prefers bit of sentiment, and is only long,
! ing for some part that will give her an OPP
portunity to put all New York-which has
so often laughed over her and her trouble
| some love affairs-in tears.
| Miss Shannon is very devoted to her home
| and family, and very disconsolate at the
annual trip ahead Of her. She is firm be-
lever in women. She says women are
always cleverer than men, and declares
| that the reason actors draw bigger salaries
| than actresses is because a manager can
| pick up dozen clever women any day, but
a clever man can only be found after long
| and iaborious search.
Miss Jessie Story is another of the in
genues who is not satisfied with her line of
work. She has not always been an ingenue,
however, and she recalls-with horror IN
| speakable now-that she once starred for a
season at the tender age Of IA. Miss Storey
scored her first great success as Agnes in
THE Henriettas.
When in town she lives in a quiet quarter
of the city with her father and sister. She
is very musical, and devotes a great share
of her time to her piano, but she prefers
above everything else to read, and confesses
to fondness for all sorts of weird, uncanny
tales. Edgar Allan Poe being favorite
author
Miss Storey is playing her first boys part
now and doesn't like it. She wonders why
| they don't put ruffles around boys coats to
with her quaint little accent and in the
graceful, simple way that calls to your
mind the little Agnes you knew and liked
in 1.-The Henrietta"
Miss Minnie Dupree lives in dear little
flat uptwon with her mother and brother.
AN sorts of bric-a-brac and pretty trihes
| strewn about the apartments testify to the
artistic taste of their fair mistress. Over in
one corner is her piano and across the room
stands a dainty writing desk, its secrets
guarded with jealous care, for Miss Dupree
has literary aspirations and often tries her
hand at writing verses
These fine mornings find her up early and
| down by the river for a walk, where she
studies whatever part she may be rehears-
ing.
Then home for breakfast and after that
she practices for an hour or two. Then pos
sibly her pencil and drawing pad and book
of costumes, for Miss Dupree designs all her
own costumes.
Miss Dupree's first hit was made in Held
by the Enemy" and the part was one of
| which she was especially fond. Unlike most
actresses she is satisfied with the styles Of
roles she plays, aud asks for nothing better.
1t was while Jane Stuart was playing a
small part in Baron Rudolph" that Mr..
Crane saw and engaged her for 1.-THE Sena-
tor" in which she has become so we'll known
to the public as Jessie Armstrong Miss
| STUART Is one OF the seven chllQren or Com
missioner Holahan.
From her earliest years she show we'd an
aptitude for the stage, and studied and
played always with view of some day be-
coming an actress. When Miss Stuart
entered upon her stage life she took the
name of Miss Steward out of compliment to
Mrs. Steward, who had been her only
teacher. By some mistake the printer made
1t Stuart. and having made her first sue
cess under that name she has retained it
instead of Jennie Steward, her original
stage name
Miss Stuart speaks French and German
and is an accomplished musician. At one
time she thought seriously of trying comic
opera. In addition to these accomplish
ments she is good cook.
When at home she spends her time paint
ing or embroidering or in church work.
She is q devout Catholic, and very active in
all the affairs of her church. Strange to
say Miss Stuart is not so fond OF Josie Arm
strong as are her audience She prefers
emotional roles. Miss Stuart's stage career
leaves a blank in the family that cannot be
filled. Mr.. Holshan says when she is home
the house is full, and when she's away it's
empty, and down upon his Office desk, amid
the confusion OF paper, you cateh the
CLEAN Of q silver frame and Jane Stuart,s
face smiles up at you.
Agnes Miller, who is playing IN "Ala-
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