The evening world., 1893-10-18
HEARD BEHIND THE SCENES.
English Actors Furiously Indig-
nant with Mrs. Kendall.
Kennedy. Heavy Weight Litter. Says
Times Are Bad for Actors.

Some Of the English actors in this city
are furiously indignant with Mrs. Ken
dal for tho remarks that she permitted
to fall from her lips the other day anent
the reception In this city OF THE Second
Mrs. Tanqueray." Sa.d one Of these gen
tIcmen yesterday: 1T was a cruel m
dasta rdly thing for Mrs. Kendall to have
alluded to Belle Billion, now the Coun-
tess of Clancarty. rs a Mrs. Tanqueray.
II was coarse and 1t was disgusting.
Nothing was ever proved against Belle
Billion except that she SAM in concert
halls. Every effort was made to secure
evidence that would incriminate her. and
every effort failed. A man is n gentle
man until he Is proved TO be n villain,
and the same holds good OF Il woman,
too. Mrs. Kendall betrayed the most
execrable taste. and deliberately insulted
n woman who Is not here to reply for
herself. There are many people In New
York who have met Belle ~Biltor-concert
hall people, OF course-and they will all
tell you that they know absolutely MOTH
ing against her. She is not uneducated.
She can hold her own in any society,
specifically. OF course. Mrs. Kendall is.
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matte profession abroad. but there is no
reason why she should come here to ven
her spleen"
The last act of The Prodigal Daugh-
ter" was rendered ridiculously super
fluous Monday night. leonard Boyne,
riding Roquefort, by some Unfortunate
accident came in third instead of first In
| tHn rann vNI,t S,aIa tl,A nrtira lnuf mt
unnecessary, for Sir John Woodmere's
entire fortune depended on Roquefort's
success. In spite of this, Sir Johns for
tune In the last act was left unimpaired.
and the play was finished just as though
the proper horse had won. The audi
enGe probably understood the horsey
difliculty--for there's very little that a
New York audience doesn't understand.
The Rialto was shocked to hear of the
death in San Francisco last Sunday of
Walter Eytinge, a well-known actor.
to %AG join Sn' " 4 few Span anys Of ago foite eel' c tmls S1!y
Mr.. Eytinge was related distantly to
Theodore MOSS. His wife, Josephine Ely
tingc, is a ~welhknown leading lady, and
has been left comfortably off, as the ac-
tor had his life heavily insured. Mr.. Ely
tingc's body will be brought to this city.
He had often told his wife that when he
died he would Ike to be cremated with
will be done.
Robert buchanan, who claims that
Daniel Frohman had sSntraetea to pro
slnuates that Paul Potter has pirated
his ideas. has replied to Mr.. Potter's
scathing rebukes. He does SO in sew
1892. Daniel Frohman received his manu-
script and paid a small royalty in ad-
vance. G) sothern read the manu-
script and approved 1t. 81 Frohman
Frohmnn intimated his intention of
throwing over B~ughanan's play and pre-
sentiny one BY Paul Potter e. He
When Mr.: Potter's many friends con.
tinue 20 believe In him and are con-
WINGED that sheridan is just the sort
of excellent work that a scholarly man
like Potter would turI out.
Kennedy. the heavy. weight-llftcr, says
tina these are hard tines for actors, in
which class he Is pleased to include
himself. He is to 60 3u' in a play, the
beautifully THE Span of Life" The
heroine has to cross a chasm and Sc
cures a plank for that purpose; The
needy places his own body. by 1t, and
grasps with one hand the edge OF
the chasm and with the other the plank.
The heroine is saved.
Felix Morris's new venture as a star
does not seem to have met with much
success. This. OF course, may be due
to the present bad times, that are made
to cover a multitude of sins. A Chicago
critic gays. Jane Stuart saved Mr..
Morris from downright failure"
And now dear little Marie Tempest
has returned to J.. M. Hill, who has also
taken hack the too afectionate Steger,
There Is pathos In all this. Oh, why
did Mommer Etherington go back &c
England and leave her little girl al
alone?