The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-10-26
SHE Is a SISTER TO CARNEY
Young Kelative Il the Richest NAN IA the
World, Rarnato.

New York, Oct 25.-There is pretty
girl who has Swapping black eyes that
light up well-molded features, who is
now playing a small part in one of the
comic operas running at Abbey's theater.
She dances Spanish fling and sings in a
quintet. Her main occupation in the
opera is to stand around in picturesque
costumes and striking poses and look
pretty This young lady is Miss Alice
Holbrook. More than that, she is the
sister-in-law of the richest man in the
world, "the king of the Kaffirs," Barney
Barna.o.
She is probably paid about so or s25
week. Her brother-in-law is estimated to
be worth eco, 0O0, 600, or something Ike
that, and Miss Holbrook and her sister
and Barney are on the best of terms.
He paid for her education in London, and
Mrs. Barnato writes to her constantly.
Miss Holbrook lives in a fat, two fights
up, at Fffty-first street and Sixth avenue.
She is there with some friends named
Manthorpe, and is not the least inflated
by her close relationship with the richest
man in the world.
YES, it is true" she said, Barney Bar
natO is my sister husband. i have known
him very we'll indeed for ten years. He
has been very kind TO me. He paid for
my education and gives me every en-
enlargement to keep striving for success
as an actress.
''Of course could tell You a great many
things about Barney that / don't feel at
liberty TO speak about. He Is entirely
self-nlade man. He began from abso-
lutely nothing. way down at the bottom
of the social scale. Why, do you know
that even after he began TO get rich L
had to write his letters for him? He
couldn't speh the words, you know. But
in the last two or three years he has inn
proved wonderfully, and now you would
hardly suspect that he had not been prop
erly educated.
1T isn't exactly true that he started in
South Africa with a circus. II wasn't eX-
actly circus" and then she changed the
conversation with remarkable rapidity
She did not explain that it was trick
donkey that the "kaitir king was eX-
hibiting in South Africa when he ran
across the chance TO transfer diamonds
TO England and so got an opening in the
financial world. She preferred TO talk of
his history only since he began to make
money.
NO" she said. in answer to an inquiry.
my real name is not HoTbrook. | can't
tell you what il is. It would be better not.
Ny family is descended from one of the
old HuguenOt families that settled in
South Africa long ago. | was born in
S.mmin Bay. in Cape Colony, and was
brought UP on Boer farm"
And is Barnato your brother-in-law's
real name? s.---t fla-
NO. it's not. His real name is Bernard
Isaacs. Some of his intimate friends
still call him Isaacs. Barnato is only
his stage name. He is an English Jew.
and one Of the best fellows as a comrade
you ever met In johannesburg they look
up to him as a king. Whenever he goes
there the Inhabitants give HIM a grand
reception. He is met with a band and a
procession, and they take the horses out
of the carriage and drag IL themselves.
''One of Barney's queer habits is to lie
for hours and look at nothing. All that
time. l suppose, he IS keeping up Won
derful thinking. He has a great brain.
It's a marvel One thing that the public
doesn't know about Barney is his ability
as an actor. He Is really a very good
one. I have seen him play Machias in
The Bells and play II we'll II il was
not for his luck I'd think myself that he
was a better actor than a banker"
Miss Holbrook showed some beautifully
colored pictures of the Ba-nato family.
which she has just received. Her siSt er
Fannie was the eldest OF the family She
is a handsome woman. tail and dark. The !
Barnatos now have three children One
was born only month ago.
His good fortune all comes at once -
said Miss Holbrook. For years they had
no children