The morning call., 1892-05-19
ANNIE WEPT COPIOUSLY.
The Tale of Woe Told by a Pretty
Little ChOrus-Girl.
She Was Bounced From an Opera Company and
Is Now Stranded Here, Over 1000
Miles From New York


| black eyes out several times before the Pre-
siding Justice OF the Peace yesterday as she
! contemplated her surrowful dilemma.
Annie was one of the attractive lot of
| chGrus-girls of the Agnes Huntington Opera
| Company, which recently played an engage
meEt at the Grand 0pera-house. she was
discharged from the company on the Goth
nit, but whether on account of malice or be-
cause of her peceadill0es seems to be dis
| puted fact.
At any rate the poor girl is now over 5000
miles from New York, to which place. ac-
cOrdng to her engagement, she was to have
had her fare upon her dismissal She is
penniless. frlendless in this city, and more
over indebted in the sum of S2l for three
weeks board at the AhbOrn House. Only
yesterday morning before coming to court
she was asked to pay her reckoning, and of
course could not. II was contemplating her
dire distress. as references were made to 1t
several times on the trial, that the girl burst
into violent sobs, and the hysterical excite
ment flushed her lovely com pleXi0u.
Miss Annie appeared iG a most attractive
/ sailors costume of navy blue with flowing
collar, exposing pink striped shirt front
| with gentlem2n'S lovely mauve fOur-lu-
| hand scarf set off by a butterfly pin. Her
under an outrageous and scarlet bloss Omed
straw hat from which flutteTed at the back
long white silk ribbons. she was q dainty
and viVaci0us little woman and showed her
| pearly teeth when she smiled winsOmely.
She had engaged herself al New York in
| September, 1891. by contract to make a tour
! Of tie United States at SIS a week, and
| when discharged at two weeks notice to re-
! ceve a fTSt-class fare back to New York,
! where she says she could easily have secured
| employment az So a week. Westward OF
| Chicago 1t appears that the pay Is more.
WITHOUT CAUSE.
However, Miss Annie says she was dis
| charged Tor no good cause and without no.
! tce, and therefore sues for a balance of SO
| due her, $50 for two weeks cut off by her
| discharge and $3.50 damages.
Miss Annie ascrlbed all her misfOrtunes to
the vengeance Of Business Manager Charles
| n. Schroeder, who, she said, was dead
| down on her. because she had repealed GER
| tain proposals. On this subject the little
woman was a stream OF volatility and she
! manifested wal-fegned or real indignation
This manager, she said, had chosen one
| Of the other girls for his and put her In
Miss Browns position in the chorus way
| down near the tOotiightS, although Miss
| Brown considered herself much better
| favored by nature and by the customers.
| Then he had her fined for this, that and the
| other thing, and size had not the slightest
! DOUBT that 1t was he VINO had procured her
discharge and left helpless and stranded
among strangers IN strange lana. i he SO
! was money deducted at Kansas City by rea-
son OF nOn-appearanceS, because Miss Hunt
ingtOn was i'll and unable 10 fulfill the en-
gagement.
The case for the defendant was tried on
depOsti0nS OF Miss Huntington, her stage
and business managers taken at SacTa-
mentO, after the company had left this
CITY the box Office receipts on the last night
nf q Z ~ l1 nd h0t~
ing been attached to secure Miss Armies
claim. These dispositions pictured the little
choTuS-girl as a parsonage with q violent
| temper, as a turbulent element in the COM
pany and saucy and imperiOus little thing
SAUCY AND IMPUDENT.
II was deposed that she was saucy and
impudent to Miss Huntington on the stage,
when she protested against some OF the
fines impose against her; that she had re-
fused 10 attend a rehearsal, but went and
| drank beer in the Louvre with two gentle
men friends, and generally was the cause
| Of trouble, riot and characterization in in
| citing the other girls to resist the deduction
| from their salaries on account Of the non
/ performances at Kansas City; also that she
used common aud coarse language when
she made her demonstrations on the coca
sion resulting in her dismissal Schroeder,
the manager, denied the charge urged
against him, and Miss Annie then gave her
version of the alleged turbulent acts. en-
phatically declaring that she never uses
common and coarse language.
However. the case WAS taken under adj
visement until to-day to produce written
tender made 10 her of her fare, it being
claimed that settlement had almost been
agreed upon before the commencement of
| the suit, but that on the last day of the
| cOmpany's appearance in the city, SchrOe-
der called at the Office of Miss Annie's at
torney. repudiated the offer of settlement,
and in her presence Spitefuly tore up the
ticket, thinking that as the company would
leave that night she would be helpless TO
do anything.
Mr.. Platt. who Is the attorney for Miss
Huntington. makes statements which, were
they introduced In evidence. would present
the lively little chorus-girl in quite another
light than that In which she posed with her
pretty face and scaldng tears before Judge
May. He says that his every decent offer
10 her has been repealed, yet he has been
ready and is now TO give her her fare 10
New York and he has the ticket in his pos
session in earnest. Mr. Plat acknOwl-
edged, however that it was hard with only
dry dispositions TO try case against
young woman with a pretty face and
penchant for crying in court until her little
heart IS almost ready to break.