Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-07-28
Pretty Miss Templeton and Howell
Osborne Said 10 Have
Fallen Out.
Nina Harrington Comes Between
the Two and Causes the
Trouble.
Racy Story of the Romance and In.
trigue of Life on the
Stage.

PHILADELPHIA, July 24-Miss Fay
iempeton, the plump and pleasing prima
doI-,a of the Park Theatre Opera Com
pany, and the central figure III Widows
Dance, which set the hearts of the Philadel-
phia dudes fiuttering In unison with the
Ruttering skirts of the fair burlesquers,
has now another chapter added to the long
list which her connections with Howell
Osborne has furnished to the daily news
papers.
When Miss TempIeton came to Phila-
delphia MIR. Osborne was In ATTENDANCE as
usual, but his stay here was brief, and
after decorating a stage box at the Park
for an evening or two with his expansive
shirt bosom, he returned to New York.
After week or two Miss Templeton
turned up missing" one night at the
Park theatre and the management was
compelled to close the house. 1t was an
nounced that Miss Templeton was i'll, but
theatrical gossip asserted that she had
gone to New 7 ork to Investigate the story
which had reached her ears that Mr..
Osborne was devoting his time and his
bank balance to the conquest of Miss Nina
Harrington. This was strenuously denied
by the management, and the following
night Miss Templeton was in her place at
the theatre. Meanwhile Mr. Osborne, who
had been her constant attendant and puta l.
tive husband, did not grace Philadelphia
with his presence, as he had been expected
to do.
The Other Woman in the Case.
Miss Nina harrington is a young VIC
man who has a talent for causing distur-
Dances and general Generalization. She
claims to be the daughter of General
Ross, of the British army, and has Ger
tainly been well educated. She mari led
an Englishman, was divorced and entered
upon a career of adventure. Her resem-
blance to Mrs. Langtry was noticeable,
aid when that once famous beauty burned
her bridges and went on the stage Miss
Harrington was frequently mistaken for
her. 1t is not strange then that Mrs.
Langtry, having broken eff her relations
with Freddy Gerhard, of New York,
that the young man upon being presented
to Miss harrington, became somewhat
fascinated by the counterfeit presentmeht
of his quondam friend, Mrs. Langtry,
and the twain came to America.
This combination did not last long,
however, and Miss Harrington took to the
burlesque stage. Ed. Gilmore, the man.
ager OF Niblo's, put her into a pages
part in a play at that theatre, and her
beauty of face and figure soon attracted
attention, and she became well known to-
the stage-door Washers OF New York
From thence she went to the Academy of
Music in tie pantomime of Cinderella,
and there an ingenious advertising agent
secured her still more notoriety by fax
ing" story of her having been robbed By
a hackman late at night of many valuable
jewels.
She secured an engagement at the CAST
no to play small parts and established her-
self in apartments at 60 West Twenty
fifth street. Her skill in keeping several
admirers on hand at one time and keeping
them all happy and contented was the envy
of her female friends.
Many Ardent admirers.
The Twenty fifth street apartments were
not only artistically and richly decorated,
but her various admirers not only contri-
buted the contents of the fiat, but all came
together and personally and with much
serious discussion superintendent the dis
posal of her household goods. Good old
English customs were inaugurated and
five O'Clock tea at the beautiful
Miss Farrington's became a recognized
Institution among certain set of men
about town. Among her most devoted
admirers was Albert Weber, the we'll
known piano m manufacturer of fifth avenue;
Al Nathan, well known in Wall street,
and among others AN ex-president of the
stock exchange and well-known musical
composer.
The list did not end here, for the Baron
Blanc, tall blonde person, who is only
baron in name and not in fact, also be-
came a follower in the train of the bronze
haired English maiden. Then came the
explosion, when the elderly and artificial
Baroness (?) Blanc SUED her husband for
d divorce, naming Miss Harrington as the
cores pondent, and also attached the as
sets, slight as they were, of so ne patent
medicine concern in which the Baron was
interested, as she claimed, on her behalf
and with her money.
A Bluff to Sue for Damages.