Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-14


room itself has the walls decorated after
the style of tnat day. and the colors en-
ployed are those deep, rich ones peculiar 10
the era.
AHosF OF LOVELY ACTRESSES.
Just in front of mestood a pretty girl with
a cars-wheel hat on, laden with plumes.
I was Just about TO make my hest court
bow, and say, God day 10 YOU Mistress
Nellie Gwynn. y when she suddenly turned
around, and from under 1t was The Ia ugh
ing face of bijou Fernandez Then 1 knew
it was to-day. And so l sat me down and
let my gossip talk to me.
Said she: Everybody is here. The Four
Hundred has representatives; so have the
Five Million; so have the set who live for
art and art alone; aud so has the large army
of soubrettes. Up there on the stand IS
Mrs. Kendall, and Agnes Booth, and Geor-
gia Cayvan; the first two are dressed in the
quietest manner; but don't Agnes Booths
blue feathers remind You of those worn by
Henry Navarro. Do you see that dignified
woman2 Magniicence IS nowhere-mag-
niicence of carriage and Of manner. Why
can't some of the swells look ana act like
herl Who is it, That is Rose Eytinge.
Dear, dear; good manners do belong to
special people, and it seems to me that
women would be well hammered if a train
robber demanded her money or her life.
The pretty little women in gray, with such
bright, dark eyes who looks as if she had
Just been celebrating her twenty-ffth birth
day. Why, that is Mrs. Tony Pastor. That
stout, jolly-looking woman in 4 tailOr-made
suit and wearing q perfect gem OF a watch
outside of her jacketl That is Elizabeth
Marbury, the eleyerest woman in New
York to-day. because she does what
she wants Do you see that delicate
sOft-eyed blonde girli1 That's IEfie Shan
non, the only woman in this country who,
in no Nft rN,.1 oil
an ingenue. What is the difference be-
tween and ingenue and soubrette2 The
soubrette is the young woman who has for
her keynote, merriment; the ingenue has
Tor hers, innocence; she must look and act
the sweet-mannered, lovely being who has
Just come out of a convent, and who. know
ing nothing of the world. is absolutely in
nocent. The villain may treat her wrong
fully, everybody else may conSpire against
her, but she must walk thFO ugh the play
with confidence in everybody, and this con-
fidence must never be unset II is true
that often, Just before the curtain drops
she gets married, but, as the audience don't
see her after that, she remains in their
minds as the representative of innocence as |
typifed by sweet Ignorance.
There comes Maud Harrison, the
s'BEsT DRESSED ACTRESS IN NEW YORK"
''lf you viii kindly look at those sable
tails on her cloak you will comprehend why
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But, bless their dear hearts, the Maud Har-
risons come once in century, gain the love
and admiration of the public, and hold 1t,
which, by the way. is most difficult thing
to do Mrs. Kendall is talking. She says
she'll help, and she proves what she says By
giving $500 to begin with. Now Mrs. Booth
is making d speech. An actress behind me
says that speech was written and learned,
thai it is too pat. To me it sounds beauti-
full. 1t is something about the American
woman being enshrined in the heart of the |
American man, but it isn't his heart that is
wanted at the fair: it's his pocketbook. !
Georgia CaYvan is making speech. There |
is such q lot of noise that we can't hear her, |
but you may be sure it is something nice |
and womanly; she couldn't possibly be any |
thing else Oh, what a beautiful girl l |
see who is with her; know who it is; the |
mother is as splendid looking as the daugh- |
ter is sweet and girliSh. It IS Mrs. John |
Chamberlin and her daughter Olive. My |
father told me that during the war, when |
Washington was filled with people, and the |
people were full of enthusiasm-and in |
those days people were more enthusiastic |
than now-adays-the men used to get up in |
the theater and fairly scream with delight |
when Emily Jordan, that is Mrs. John
Chamberlin, came on the stage,
HER ABSOLUTE BEAUTY CoNoUERING
them. Somebody next to me has just said |
that the young girl ought to be pretty, for
there is a look in her face of Charles
Thorne, her uncle, and now every woman
over thirty, sitting around, gives sigh as
she remembers him when he drew all New
York to the old Union square theater.
''Men-well, there are no men except the
committee-it's a woman's crowd. How
ever, here comes Dan Frohman, pleasant
man, man who is always the same. Do
you know the secret of the success of
Charles and Dan Frohmau is, do be-
leVe in their unfailiuu OOliteness If they
do you courtesy it is the very best they
can do. If they send you seats for the
theater, they are not in @. with draught
at your back, and a PARKWAY vision of the
stage in front, but they are the best in the
house"