The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-08

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TEDDY MARKS
[Guilbert's manager, who induced her to visit
America.
| Franco, they nro so brave, so generous, so
hospitablc and SO free. Their hospitality
l have partaken of, and their generosity,
mn foie, 1t almost overwhelmed mol
| Their bravery! Did they not call the
bloof, rs my manager, Tnidy Marks shy,
of that great bette, Angleterrc- England,
| you call him-tho great bandit and bully
| of tho worldP And free! Eth bien, do they
not do rs they will, with no gouverneur
or president to halt them rs long rs they
break no law? VOLTA, tho press have great
libortel 1t jump on bad people, bad laws
and oven bad rules. And the great Amer
lean people believe in the press.
Tho country like because it is so big,
so grand, SO magni1que, with It's char
mant scenery, high mountains, fine rivers
| and beautiful lakes
Helas! l stay not long in America.
leave New York this week for petit
tour of the provinces. Then go back to
| la belle Franco say 60. But return. 1
| will come baok to Ia grando Amerique aft
| or play my engagements at homo. This
was u tour made upon what you Ameri-
cans call tho spur of tho moment. 1t was
| only trip of plaisir. And it was plaisir.
Work oil tho time, but amusement besides
| / have driven all over New York in the
daytime and seen oil its great mon and
| women. Most of them indeed 1 have seen
| mt the Olympia, whore sang. saw Taidy
| not Taidy Marks-but the great Taidy
| Roosevelt. My manager say to inc that
Taidy shoot one million people off from
| beer and wine OH Sunday. Miracle! Taidy
would not do in In belle Franco. Then I
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Rneur Dick Crokair. Taidy Marks say these
n1onsegneurs arc tho greatest men in
! America. Monseigneur Plat, he say,
chooses congressman, senators, gouvcr-
neurs and oven presidents, and thus save
| the people tho trouble of electinR them
| Monseigneur Platt must he a saint to do
| all that work. Monscignour Crokair, he
too, my manager say, generally select tho
| mayor, aldermen, and commissionnaire of
| New York city, and tell them how to
spend the money for tho good of the town
| Parblou, he is n grand man, too, to do all
this work, vraiment IN angel, but Tnidy
Roosevelt says no; that NJ. Crokair is
looking for angels.
1 saw, too, the ten Beau Brummels of
New York, my manager says They are
Messrs. Berry Wall, Ollie Teall, Jack As
tor, Delaney Nicoll, George Law, Eddie
Schmidt, George Work, Senator Dry Gold
Dollar Sullivan, Padda Divvair and Fred
| dy ,Gebhard, once 10 cher ami do Ia belle
Lnngtry of Jairsay.
| L agree not with my manager. saw
| one monsieur who was moro beautiful
than the ten. He was Petair Mahair the
gladintcur of iIreland. He is tojours beau
sahrenr, big broad, strong, with hair like
the raven, eyes like tho gazelle's and
cheeks like tho rose. Moro power to his
arm, ms my friends Of rIreland say when
He meets M. Robairt Fitzsinmons of Aus
tralja.
| have seen all the great women of the
town, too, writer's, artists, journalists, nc
treases and women of fashion. Most of
them are beautiful rs we'll as brilliant. OF
| the aotresscs Ada Rehnn, Agnes Booth,
| blanche Walsh and julia Nelson make on
me daap impression; they are SO earnest
| vigorous and finished in their work.
And, ina foie, what lot of foreign art
| lists there arc now in New York; Among
them is the great Bernhardt. The divine
| Sarah is SO jealous of my SUCCESS in New
Yo-lS that she shy TINT she never-see me in
Paris. Tonniere do ciel, Sarahs great
ness Is waning, If she say she did not SEQ
me In Paris, or hor memory must be fail
ing. There am as great an artist in my
Kingdom as she Is in hers. Mine is mu-
sic; hers is tragedy. Bah, which lis the
sweetor and nicer of tho two2 Music of
course. II Bernhnrdt did not see nse, tho
misfortune is hers. She missed IA pratticr
sight than when she stands in front of tho
mirror.
spoke of iae American men. alike
the ladies too. They arc SO pretty, SO
clesair, SO bright, or, as we say at home,
SO chic They dress I'm good taste too. In
oil these little matters they are something
like Frenchwomcc. even to their fine fig
ures. Women of other countries, say Of
Germany, England, Holland, Austria and
belgium, lack these traits.s They are not
bright, they are bundly in their build,
they do not dress we'll, and they do not
talk we'll That is why charmant Ameri-
can girls capture foreign noblemen. It is
their accomplishments, quite as much rs
their money, that does it.
Helas, far too many lovely girls put
their leads into the matrimonial moose in
America too qpick. They do not know
their own minds or those of their lovers.
Voila. what then? The divorce court!
And tho fault Of marriage having been
committed l think divorces is the lest
remedy at hand. 1t frees the woman froR,
the letters OF fool. knavo or a tyrant.
For myself, have been fortunate 20 far.