Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-05-13
THE PLAYERS"

ltlAs NNNIunlb iNhhN hNA Jpa WIS Nu-
confined. The boarding house was east
Of Third avenue, and the attic room was
four flights from tho street; but when
one is talented aud 90, and visits Now
York for tho first time with a ilattoiing
introduction to an influential manager,
onc docs not count stairs.
On tho first evening Melliccnt uto her
gristly roast and wilted salad with tho
air Of young woman who is assured Of
champagne and sweotbrcads at tho
weeks end and wondered whether Il
would DO three days or Eve before sho
"signod' with the influential manager
and engaged quarters better BETTING
the comcdicnno Of u metropolitan COM
pauy.
Two weeks later Mollicont occupied
the same attic room ON The east side, but
boarded ohcaply 10 q Third avenue eat.
ing house. where she could breakfast
heartily for 10 cents and dine luxurious.
~ Tor 90
One week more and Mclliccnt was
boiling her breakfast Cocoa over the gas
jet aud washing her handkorchicfs in
the bathtub and ilationing them ON tho
window pane 10 dry. In those days sho
blacsed her boots with ink and stuffed
her mirror frame with newspaper adver-
tiscments for ballet girls and Indy fen.
GERS. Tho letter Of recommendation
which the influential manager had kindly
returned was stroaked and worn by con.
slant handling, and tho notice book was
dog cared.
On one end Of her bureau was n box Of
letters from tho man who wished to
marry her. At first Mollicont used 20
read and sigh over these pledges OF nffec-
ton. 1t was such pity, she thought,
that he cared like that for girl who
never could marry him. Now She read
and sighed over them with different
emotion. alt can't como TO that" she
would say.
AT the start there had been certain
piqunncy In the venture. To be talented
and 90 and TO seek her fortune alone In
n great city read uncommonly like tho
first chapter Of "a romance Besides New
York captivated the girl Her rounds of
the day finished, sho would ride from the
Battery to Harlem on the elevated, pric,
dinnond nocklarcs orJ o. no., n
gowns with tho bcst ~ ,ha,, -, ,Let
broadway nromenadc whose Lite vas
suyycst,vo or footIi,,i,,s "aI
an orchestral accompaniment.
Tho agencies charmed by their abso.
lutte novelty.
To neuetrate 10 that uriva,o ,orr;,or,
10 see a slip bearing her name and 81
dress nI,ccd IN a n,,oa,,h"in inh.1a1
"sonbrettos and Iugnnres " soo,nnS 49,, w.
inefficient ppiopo ma axe;,,,,., -,
once. one well worth bopra og vai,ina
and Tho conments snrras,;c or inSisav
ont of tho manogo,. n,d M sa,oiii,aa
All this, however. ns | snid WINS ~ Tho
start
TO be the heroine Of n romance ia ono
thing, the heroine OF n realistic novel
quite another.
I'm beginning 20 suspect tho trutb
of all these horrid storiesof bnfic1 ccnius
ngninst a1yo-so 80 ~
wrote near tho oloso ~ ,bo +Iird 81.
10 the man who wished 70 marry ho 80
Manners nil seemed I'm 49, a" 80
her--all save one, who. from tho bogin'
ming. had treated her with unacconnta.
bio forbearance. He had even scnt brr
tickets for new play. There WINS /:
souhretto part In IL that wag badly doro
he said. Tho author WINS II friend of bis
and-woll. no COULDN'T nroniso nnythin,
but he'd like her TO see the pnrt
Tho soubroite was bad-worso evon
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