The evening world., 1893-10-02
and such AN ANGEL!
Mr.. Willie Leonard, Of Texas, Was
the Casinos Recent Prize.
ONE OF HIS LATEST WHTMS WAS TO
SING IN THE CHORUS.
HIS INCOME ABOUT $4,000 A MONTH.

last Thursday night disappeared from the
chorus at the Casino.
An angel, ~ be 1t understood, is any one,
young or old, who throws his money among
theatrical people or who backs theatrical en-
~tcrprises. The angel wa called a ''greun
angel" because he gave his name a. the Ca
sino rs B. q. Green. The envelope containing
his magnificent salary for last week waits fos
him. The chorus girls are distraught.
The Casinos 'green ANGEL Is willie
Leonard.
Willie Leonard is the son of an immensely
rich Texan banker and landowner. His father
died a few years ago and Willie was his only
heir. The angel is not yet twenty years Of
age. He has So, 600 or 81, o a month
spending money. After he has spent that he
can get as much more Ms he needs to carry him
to the next month.
He has practically unlimited credit at the
seahoard Bank. The cashiers in the big hotels
delight to honor his cheeks.
Mr.. Leonard is n we'll built youngster, with
black hair and black eyes. His first mustachs
is sprouting. When he walked up Broadway
yesterday the tiny ends of that mustache were
well waxed. He was dressed in the extreme
height of fashion. He carried himself with
the confidence of one fully able to pay his way.
Willie has lived for the last two weeks In .
suit of rooms in the Colonnade Hotel. Being
already blase, he affects the Colonnade because
it is old and eminently respectable. His rooms
are on the first floor, on the Lafayette place
side.
Young Mr.. Willie has a voice. 1t Is really .
very good tenor voice. He has an ambition.
1t is to te the greatest tenor that ever thrilled
NJ .,, rn eat ,rnl xlprlI Thn x.nr.. INat vrn.A--~
in New York have, ut different times, trained
his voice. and, being diplomats, have told him
that he will some day achieve his ambition.
But last year Willie took n within to go to Paris,
SO that nc might be taught by the teacher, the
great master, to whom the DE Reske brothers
owe 70 much.
Young Mr.. Willie is a creature of whims. Of
impulses. One day he fancies he would like
to 20 to san Francisco. He sets out. He may
reach Frisco, or he may get us far as Omaha
and return. Another day he imagines that he
is bored In New York. So he engages PAS
sage and starts abroad. He may take the next
steamer back. Abundnntly rich, he ~gratihes
every within.
So he went to Paris, and the great master
helped him to become the greatest tenor. Mr..
Willie was soon n distinguished figure in the
gay capital. He drove the finest team that
pranced through the Bots dc Boulogne. They
werr Jet black horses, and cost thousands.
The Green Angel who, by the way, was
for awhile II student Mt Annapolis, returned
to New York from Paris last January. He
took a suit Of rooms Mt the Plaza Hotel. His
within mt that time was to call himself Walk
Vctta. Everybody around the Plaza Hotel
knew him as Sig. Vetta. To carry out the de-
fusion that he was a foreigner, Sig. Vetta wore
n magnificent fur Overcoat that a Russian
grand duke might have envied.
CLOTHES OF THE LATEST PARTISAN CUT.
While he was at the Plaza he happened to
meet some people who had been polite to him
in Paris. He thought he would let them see
how things could be done in New York. He
sent out invitations to twenty OF his friends to
mian evening" These invitations were
,Sd t nSm on :. ' WsIH Hs,, stationery fcy t f%e %"istle With haA
hcmian evening the - SignOr'' engaged two
or three p~arlors and n big dining room. h
dinner was superb. The Plaza's chef was on
that there was at least one chef outside OF Paris.
After the dinner the guests were RECALLED by q
performance in which every participant was an
Fisher Powers, the baritone. sang. Bessie
Clayton, of the "Trip to Chinatown ~ com
Eany, danced l1ez Carusi played the harp.
the Rockcfeller attend. sang the aria from
1.-THE Queen of Sheba. Jose, the male fall
setto, sang.
MI. wine IlIlscl ShnH several tlIuec. NcOQ
1t he said he was Enthusiastically a~pplauded?
The guests, besides, went into ~ecstasies over
photographs OF Mr.. Willie, These photographs
The costume Of silk and velvet in which Mr..
Willie posed for the photograph cost him $500.
The photographs themselves cost SIS apiece.
The attitude in them was very striking. Mr.
Willie's mouth was wide open. as If he were
appealing to Lenora, and both his arms werS
extended towards high heaven.
Besides being in love with his own voice and
with thp sDcicfy Of theatrical and ODPrAtic
people, young Mr. Willie would be a play
wright. He has written q five act play, which
his intimate friends. They were 50 enthusi.
astic about IL that he decided to read 1t TO one
Of the Frohmans. Mr.. Frnhman went to the
Odd To say, Mr.. Fmhman was not nearly 30
enthusiastic as the other critics. The play has
never seen light. That Is very much to be
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The villain, who appears only in a dress suit,
has this line
"Oh, rats I'm on to you. Birdie. Come
oh"'
The climax OF the play happens at n lawn
ennis party ut Newport. The heroine stabs
the villain to the heart with a silver favor
which has been given her at II german. 1t Is .
book. mark with II sharp point. Before the
villain dies he discovers that he has been In
love with his own. mother.
Growing tired of the Plaza, Mr.. Willie went
to live nj Col, Wcisiger's boarding house IN
Nineteenth street. That place is much patron.
lied by southern people, VINO were Simply uh<-
zled by young Mr.. Winlie's magnifcence.
From there he went to the Hotel Bartholdi.
His pride received u cruel wound while he
was at the BartholdL. He was greatly attracted
by Il certain actress. He sent her a bouquet
that cost II small fortune. Then Mr., Willie en-:
gagged a conspicuous seat in the theatre and
planted himself there. One after another the
members OF the company appeared and every
one of them wore Sone of Mr., Willie's flowers.
Even the men had boutonnieres of them. Then
the actress of whom he was enamored came on.
Not a bud, not even a leaf, that he had sent
adorned her.
Mr.. Willie left the theatre. He told his
friends afterwards that actress was u woman OF
no taste.
Mr.. Willie took n whim to sing in the chorus
OF the Duff Opera Company. II Is said he Of
iered 81, 600 To get there, but failed. He was
entirely happy when he secured n place at S1S
n week in The Rainmaker of SYRIA chorus.
He reported for duty i'll the chorus in evening
dress, and occasionally drove to the theatre in
his carriage and pair. He was extremely po-
lite To chorus girls.
ON the saturday night the company lefS
Buffalo for New York there was the usual kick
among the girls about the berths in the sleep
ing car. Each and every chorus girl de-
manded a lower berth and refused point blank
To ga aloft. Mr.. Willie heand the row and
without saving IA wori walked to the rear of the
train, where another sleeping car had just
been attached, MIR. Willie pulled out u roll OF
hills and promptly engaged half the berths In
the ear. Then he walked back to the chorus
" Ladies, - he said, ~ am extremely sorry
that you should lie put out about your berths;
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