The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-02-14
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GRESsIvE CHICAGO.

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moters-A Sumptuous New YORK
Hotel Parlor Thronged With stage
Bsauties-Ths Little Girls theatrical
Prayer - Loud-Playlng Orchestras.
Are We Dscinersp
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NEW YORK, Feb. 81 do decidedly ap-
prove OF Chicago. have never been there
so that my appreciation of it IS not biased in
any way. The reason for my approval is a
very matter Of fact one. 1t is not because
the Chicago women are beautiful or the
men gallant; no becauser they don't allow
swinging signs and have no fresh oysters:
but it is because Chicago when it makes up
its mind TO anything always gets there.
New York,,makes great bluster and fizzles
out. 1t wanted the worlds fair-at least it
said it did; Chicago did want it, and got it.
New York made a great hubbub about
wanting the democratic convention; it went
down to Washington TO grasp this; went
down to wipe out the woollv west; but iust
the same Chicago got the convention.
l am something of a connosseur about
tea. l like it Co be amber in color, clear
and to taste of tea, not of milk and sugar or
tin kettles or Indian doctors herbs. | have
tasted it at Delmonico's and at every first
class hotel in this CITY and | never had a
decent cup of it until the other day when |
got it at the last new hotel-the Holland
house Il do not know the people who keep
this hotel and | am not touting for iii
but l wish to remark that the proprietors
also are from Chicago. The fact that they
know how to make good tea ought to take
the entire English contingent there, for they
are always moaning that they can't get a
decent cup If that which does 50 cheer and
warm upt the
VERY Cookies OF YOUR HEART.
A good thing is always worth talking
about, 80 am going to babble about my
visit to the Holland house. | went there at
the invitation of the committee who are to
manage tue actors fair. which is to take
place in the spring. and which it is hoped
will make a deal of money, SO that the
orphanage may be built and a good lot of
ducats dropped in the treasury OF the actors
fund. You see il was the Chicago men who
were smart enough TO offer their most beau.
tiful rooms and a lovely luncheon TO about
500 women. We we're invited to the "King
Charles Room,n aud when | got there /
put up my baud to my head and wondered
if we had gone back a couple of cent
urities. There, in fantastic dress, by the
tea table was a dark complexioned being,
who might have been the pags of any of
the ladies at the court of Charles H.. the
room itself has the walls decorated after the
style of that day, and the colors employed
are those deep, rich o-es peculiar to the
era.
HOST OF LOVELY ACTRESSES.
Just in front of me stood a pretty girl
with a cartwheel hat on laden with plumes.
was just about TO make my best court,
bow and say: GOOD day to you, Mistress
Nellie Gwynn,n when she suddenly turned
around, and from under it was the laugh
ing face of Bijou Fernandez Then | knew
IL was to-day. And so | sat me down and
let my gossip talk to me.
She said: Everybody is here. The Four
Hundred has representatives.; so have the
Five Million; 50 have the set who live for
art and art alone; and so has the large
army of soubrettes. Up there on the stand
is Mrs. Kendall. and Agnes Booth, and
Georgia Cayvan; the first two are dresse
in the quletest manner; but don't Agnes
Booths blue feathers remind you of those
worn by Henry NayRrre2 Do you see that
dignitied womana Magnlficence is nowhere
-magniflcence of carriage and of manner.
why can't some of the swells look and act
like herr Who is it? That Is Rose Eytinge
Dear, dear; good maunens do belong
to special people, and 1t Seems to me that
woman would be well-mannered if a train
r0bber demanded her money or her life
The pretty little woman in gray, with such
bright, dark eyes, who looks as If she had
just been celebrating her 25th birthday!
Why, that is Mrs. Tony Pastor. That stout,
jolly looking woman in a tailor-made suit,
and wearing perfect gem of q watch out
side of her Jacket That is Elizabeth Mar
bury, the cleverest woman in New York
to-day, because she does what she wants.
Do you see that delicate, sott-eyed blonde
girls That's Ellie Shannon, the only
woman in this country who in the French
sense Of the word. is really ON in
genue. What is the difference between an
ingenue and a soubrette! The soubrette is
the young woman who has for her keynote
merriment; the ingenue has for hers inno-
cence; she must look and act the sweet.
hammered, lovely being who has Just come
from convent. and who, knowing nothing
of the world, is absolutely innocent. The
villain may treat her wrongfully, every
body else may conspire against her, but she
must walk through the play with confidence
in everybody, and this confidence must
never be upset. 1t is true that often, irSv
before the curtain drops, she gets married,
but, as the audience don't seq err after that.
she remains IN their minds as the representa-
tive of Innocence tyliied by sweet ignor,
ance.
There come Maud Harrison, the
BEST DRESSED ACTRESS IN NEW YORK.
IF you will Kindly look at those sable
tails on her cloak you will comprehend why
so many women want to go on the stage.
But, bless their dear hearts, the Maud
HarriSons come once in q century, gain the
love and admiration of the public. and hold
it. hicn, by the way, is most difficult
thing to do. Mrs. Kendall 10 talking. She
says she'll help, and she proves what she
says by giving 500 TO begin with. Now
Mrs. Booth is making a speech. AN actress
behind me says that speech was written and
learned, that it is too pat. To me 1t sounds
beautiful. 1t is something about the Ameri-
can woman being enshrined in the heart
ot the American man, but it isn't his
heart that is wanted at the fair; it's
his picket book. Georgia Cayvan is
making a 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 b. anything else. o,
what a beautiful girl I see who is with
her; l know who it j.; the mother is as
splendid looking as the daughter is sweet
and girlish. 1t is Mrs. j I'm 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 enthuslasm-and in those days people
were more enthusiastic than nowadays-the
men used TO get up III the thesssr and fairly
scream with delight when Emily Jordan,
that is Mrs. John ChambeBlin, Game on the
stage,
"HER ABSOLUTE BEAUTY CoNQUERING
them. Somebody next to me has Just said
that the yOun1r pirl ought IN ha nrattv for.