Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-12

Mr.. Eugene Kelly. Jr.'s, Dinner Party--A
Young California Actrsss' Career.
Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

MT. Eugene Kelly. Jr.'s. Dinner Party--A
Young California Actress Career.
Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YoRK, Aug. 10, 1892.
Al the dinner given few days ago by Mr..
and Mira Eugene Kelly, IT,, at Edgar Cottage,
Newport, TO celebrate Nj. Kelly's appointment
as chamberlain to His Holiness Leo XIII
there was notable gathering Of distinguished
Catholics. The party included, besides the
host and hostess, LIE Oonte Maurice de Mauny,
the Marquis de Savaedra. attache to the Spanish
legation: Miss Csld well, who was ct one time
afianced to Prince Murst and who has the distinc-
ton of being the only woman in the world ex-
cept the Queen of Spain whom the pope has
decorated with the golden rose, and briDt
young California actress, Miss Kathlynne Staun-
ton Heron, who is the only surviving relative
Of the famous Archbishop MscHals. "shs
Lion Of the Pold Of Judah"
Miss Kathlynne staunton-Heron 10 very
pretty young woman who began IN exception
ago in San Francisco. Cal, her native city, but
has been prevented from acting for two years
by q dangerous illness from which she Is but
lately recovering.
The beginning of Miss Herons career reads
like romance. Her friends believing she had
her read. The gentle Modjeska had been asked
to do just such things hundreds Of times by the
hopeful friends of aspiring young women and
firmly refused to hear Miss Heron.
One day knock at her parlor door In the
Palace Hotel interrupted chat Modjeska was
having with an old-time friend.
To the invitation to come in q pretty young
girl, below the medium height, entered She
, looked scarcely more than n child, as she wore
/ her heavy dark hair In a braid down her back.
and her lovely blue Irish eyes with their long
| black lashes, had the appealing look OF child
| in them as she said breathlessly:
Dear Iadame Modjeska l am KAthlynne
Staunton- Heron, and I've come to ask you to
| hear me read, Just little. II you don't, II
will ruin my whole future life, because every
body will say: She cannot amount to any
thing; Modjeska refused fatty to hear her
read"
Whether it was the awful responsibility that
Modjeska felt was thrust upon her or her nat'i-
raj warm womanly sympathies prevailed wa
never discovered, but she said. smiling indul
| gently at the child:
| "Readi Whas Will you read?"
"sCelia,' if you do not mind" said the tremb
ling young woman, now thor oushly frightened
by her own temerity.
4, every well, begin"
Miss Heron read for little while vher
ModIeska said; >,
They finished the play. Modjeska said moth
ing. She sat down and wrote a note.
The applicant for histrionlo honors wonder
ing If she had been wise TO do such daring
thing, nearly tainted when Modjeska said
"Here, take this note to Al Hayman, and tel
him YOU are to play with NE. Como to re
besr5al tomorrow"
This unusually bright beginning launche'
Miss Heron into the smooth current Of tn
theatrical stream. Sic was called The Cali
tornia prodigy" She vas bat sixteen year
old. After playing with Modjeska abe playe
with Fanny Davenport, Henley and Edwar'
so.hern She was the pet Of society, and wLs1
enc became i'll with merry Gus prossTation -
gay deni-ens of the grsnde monde Of San Frs
CISCO were unre1nitting in their kind and be-
fui attentions. amt
Az soen as Miss Heron recovered she ", ~.
to Neg York, her physiciaus predicts 90
change Of climate would materially afroes
her health. She brought letters 70 dist Ao.t.i
people II New York ard is enjoying cbsn.-
ronsSe Of Mrs. Eugene Kelly, jr,
most charming Of women.