The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-08-27
TOMBSTONE BEMNET1T6 WE'D.
She Met Her Fate in Paris and
Will Retire from the Stage.
Bal Is offered n Shark-Stage News
and Gossip.

II am going to tell you something"
said Miss tombstone Bennett yesterday
as she sat In the parlor OF the Victoria
Hotel. looking very nice and cool In
clean white frock, "and don't be sur
prised. l really think that this will be
my last season on the stage, for"-hiiss
Bennett looked at the pattern Of the
carpet and drew triangles with the toe
of ner French shoe-"I am going to be
married. At any rate, l am fiancee, and
my intended is not a theatrical man.
met him In Paris. He is French. and
well. I'm tired of the stage any way.
My ambition Is to travel--not with
theatrical company-and he" with an
accent on the "heD lis willing. l won't
tell you his name because 1t isn't neces-
sary just yet. l have come to the con-
clusion that It's no use acting unless
you can become great like Bernhard or
Duse. How can /, In comedy roles, ever
hope to do more than l have done? l
don't deny that l nave had success, but
It's no. iar-reaching enough to please
me-"
"oh, yes" replied Miss Bennett with
some uncertainty. ~ like. it. and the
play is nice. I'm Just going out now
to see II ] can't get somebody else to
teach me how to swing Indian clubs. l
entered gymnasium In Paris, but they
had no Idea what Indian clubs We're.
You can give the professor more I,,.
you | was told. So l came back to
New York, and l have got to go in gym
nastics with vengeance or l shall not
abroad? Nothing. I was In Paris nearly
all the time. ! spent three days in Lon
don. but didn't go to any theatres, be-
cause | was with a crowd of people who
had seen everything. l came back to
America before 1t was necessary, be-
cause some friends of mine were return
Miss Bennett has crossed the Atlantic
sixteen times AMI doesn't mind II bit.
But she Is not strong minded and un-
feminine as people who see her photo.
graphs believe. She Is, In fact, very
charming little lady.
| the story of the encounter of Miss
Beach, Roster & Balls living picture,
with a shark, while bathing. as told IN
letter to Mr.. Bal: The writer, who
dated his missive from Hell Rock Cot
tage in Nipety-seeond street, wrote ,Ssa e;
[ shark that attacked Miss Beach in He'll
Gate last Tuesday. II you want him for
exhibition, you can have him by sending
wa "' Very ~ much amused. '.It wouldn't
be bad idea he said, ito get the
! shark, and frame him in a living pic
ture with Miss Beach. l think 1t would
! make a hit"
| Loie Fuller Is going on "a serpentine
tour around the world-before the dogs,
! that are now doing her dance, can get
there. She has, however, several new
dances, and she is certainly most in
| genious young woman. In one of these
/ dances, large round hole Is cut in the
stage and filed in with plate glass.
Loie stands on the glass, and from be-
meath the stage colored lights are
be all aflame, and the effect, 1t is said
Is odd. In another dance, roses fall
upon her, until she Is completely sub
merged beneath them, while she exc
brother. an electrician, is with her
abroad, and she is making from $500 to
$500 a night.
The agent who has been lending
money to actors at usuTious rates OF in,
man the other day. The writer pro.
fessed to be in very hard luck, and
asked the agent IL he could possibly
make him loan on load of hay.
The living picture craze has even in
vaded the Summer resorts. At Cape
May they have been given by the Grau
opera company, at the end of the pier,
with the ocean as a background. There
is positively no escape from them. There
is some consolation in the reflection that
their value may possibly have dimin-
ished before the beginning of the season
of Italian opera at the Metropolitan
Opera House.
Nine Tavary and the Seidl Society are
very much at loegerheads The prima
donna's agent promised that she should