Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-05-15
MEN WHOM WOMEN ADORE.
The Delicate and Refined Type of Actors
and Singers Get the Smiles.

The Delicate and Refined Type of Actors
and Singers Get the Smiles.
The excess of devotion that Padery
ewski receives from enthusiastic women
calls attention to the fact that it is al
ways the more delicate and refined type
of manhood that inspires this sort of
historical idolatry among the women.
There never was a 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 alteration 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-
Gus 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 Bel!ew 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 a mystery, for not even the
Sutherland sisters could have supplied
all the locks that We're surreptitiously
dealt out to the fair devotees for time.
Pierre Lott, in France, now one of the
Immortals, is another man of the marked
feminine characteristics which appeal to
the enthusiasm of women and claim
their championship. 1t was on shipboard
that this writer, whose real name is Jean
Viaud, got the name of Lott, which is
japanese for ''violet," and it was as NiO
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 Nine. Adam and her
followers, in their enthusiasm for Lott
at the time of his election to the acad
envy, opposed a man of distinguished
largeness of thought and marked genius.
Dignity and elegance are both Winning
cards for gaining popularity with woln-
en-. It is to the former that Walter Dam
rosch previous TO lbs 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 to husbands of the practical ro-
tund school; men with plenty of devel-
opment in the aldermanic region; men
whose wedding vests won't meet by sew
eral inches, and whose bald spots are fast
growing glossy; men who couldn't I'M
derstand their rosettes any better than
Amelie Rives' unfortunate hero, and who
laugh at the little women and their raw
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.