The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-07-07
MEN WHOM WOMEN ADORE.
The DelIcate and Refined Type Of Alters
ana Singers Get tho Smiles.


and Singers Get the Smiles.
The excess of devotion that Pader.
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
hysterical idolatry among the women.
There never was 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 ne sang
Kyrle Bellew was in his day another
! victim of woman's devotion. They
fon ID ont where the effeminate Marc
Antony had his hair clipped, and bribeG
the Barber I'M, saving bits of the sacred
fleece for them 10 w., lear IN lockets anC
' ratches How that bar,,., ever recon
Gil, Vi things with his own COM renee
how he will settle it with the recording
angel = = mystery, for not even the
Sutherian i sisters could have snpplied
all the locks thai were surreptitiously
dealt out to Tue fair devotees for time.
Pierre Lott, IN France, now one of the
Immortals, is another man OF the marked
feminine characteristics which appeal tC
the enthusiasm of women and claim
their championship. II was OH shipboard
that this writer, whose real name is Jean
Viaud, got the name of Lott, which is
japanese for violet" and it was as Vic
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 won.
en-. 1t 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 guis,
of an exquisite that charms. The ode
thing about it is that the very womeI
who rave over these types of men ar,
welded to husbands of the practical 70
tund school; men with plenty Of devel
opment in the aldermanic region; mel
whose wedding vests won't meet by sew
eral inches, and whose bald spots are fas
growing glossy; men who couldn't un
derstand their rosettes any better thai
Amelie Rives' pgfQrtu9ate hero, and VIII
laugh at the little Women and their raw
ings over long haired heroes, confden
of their own sharih and liking the WON
en- all the better for their pretty enthus
asms.-New York Sun.