Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-18
MEN WHOM WOMEN ADORE.
The Delicate and Refined Type of Actor
 and Singers Get tho Smiles


 and Singers Get tho Smiles
 The excess of devotion that Pader- ewski receives from enthusiastic women calls attention to the fact that it is al- ways the moro delicate and refined type of manhood that inspires this sort of hysterical idolatry among the women. There never was q more superb example of handsome manliness than that of Edouard de Reszke, the French tenor, but he was here and is in his own coun- try but vaguely admired by women, and with none of the mad, rapturous ecstasy and adoration of which Alvary, the Ger man tenor, was the ungracious recipient.
 Alvary was small and slight in stature. His shyness was almost painful. His devotion to his German frau and numer- ous olive branches hopelessly proSaic and unromantic. But the women stood about the stage door in groups for a glimpse of their divinity, and squandered their entire allowance on opera tickets when he sang.
 Kyrle Bellew was in his day another victim of woman's devotion. They found out where the effeminate Marc Antony had his hair clipped, and bribed the barber into saving bits of the sacred fleece for them to wear in lockets and watches. How that barber ever recon ciled things with his own conscience, how he will settle it with the recording angel is n mystery, for not even the Sutherland sisters could have supplied all the locks that were surreptitiously dealt out to the fair devotees for time.
 Pierre Loti, in France, now one of the Immortals, is another man of the marked feminine characteristics which aDSeal to the enthusiasm of women and claim their championship. It was on shipboard that this writer, whose real name is Jean Viaud. got the-name of Loti, which is Japanese for violet" and it was as Vio- let that he was known among the grace less, but discriminating subalterns. Men call his writing feminine in discernment and cloying in style, and say that he chooses his words like bonbons. But the strong and brilliant Mme Adam and her followers, in their enthusiasm for Loti at the time of his election to the acad- emy, opposed a man of distinguished largeness of thought and marked genius.
 Dignity and elegance are both winning cards for gaining popularity with wom- en. It is to the former that Walter Dam- rosch previous to his marriage gained his following of fashionable women, and it is to the latter quality, as well as his dramatic talent, that Riddle is indebted for the admiration of the women who listen to his readings Perhaps it is the unexpected strength and fire in the guise of an exquisite that charms. The odd thing about it is that the very women who rave over these types of men are welded 10 husbands of tho practical TO- tund school; men with plenty of dcvel- opmcnt in the aldernanic region; men whose wedding vests won't meet by sev- eral inches, and whose bald spots arc fast growing glossy; men who couldn't un- derstand their roscttys any better than Amelie NIvcs' unfortunate hero, and who laugh at the little women and their ray ings over long haired heroes, confident of their own charm and liking the wom- en all the better for their pretty enthusi- asms.-New York Sun.