The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-18
CELEBRITIES AT A PLAY.
People Who Were Seen at Irving's
Production of "C~ymbeiine."
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Production of "Cymbeiine."
London Letter in New York Mail and Ex-
In the box furthest from the stage on the
right hand side sat Mr.. and Mrs. Barney
Barnato and several plutocratic Australian
friends. The wife of the financier is dark,
plump and rather pretty. after the round
faced, black-eyed type. She wore a dread
fully ugly gown of old rose satin and vel
vet, with huge diamond ornaments (all the
CONSIDERATIONS of heaven as well as the
blazing sun and crescent NOON disposed
zontal bars of diamonds fanced in her black
halr on either side, while bracelets galore
J1ngled and glittered upon her arms. Mr..
Barnato sat beside her with q shirt front
of great amplitude adorned with d single
diamond p~rotruding from a not too well
cut evening coat. Next to him sat a lady
who was also pleasing, bur even more
plump than Mrs. Barnato. | don't know
who she was, but her diamonds and her
yellow satin toilet bespoke the wealth of
Australia.
Next to the Barnato box was that great
wife and daughters. They were all dressed
very simply, and looked quite insignificant
beside the Barnato magnificence. In the
box on the pit tier was Lady CRANKY, fu-
ture Duchess of Rutland. She is a fear
fully delicate-looking woman, with her hair
arranged in a frizz all over her head, and
With a curious, uplifted, protesting express
sion OF the eyebrows that gives her rather
a peevish look. She was dressed in a sad
colored gray gown, with not a jewel or q
flower to relieve It's neutrality. In the first
loge on the second tier was Sir Edward
L~ShN aIto Ills IdIillIN- 0lI E<dNdId Is d
roiy-poly little Hebrew gentleman, the pro-
prietor of the Daley Telegraph, and, of
course, enormously rich.
In the box next to him was the Alma
Tadema family, the great artist, his wife
and two daughters. 1 had never seen Mr..
Tadema before in the flesh, and l can as
sure you he gave me quite a shock. He is
an enormously stout and very short man.
who wears necessarily because Of his huge
bulk) the most extraordinary clothes. His
race IS as monstrouS as his body, with
large, heavy features and old-fashioned
mUtt0n-CnOD' WhlSknrG His hair &c unite
black and he wears it in a curious plasterad
fashion over his rather low f 'reteod. His
swelling flesh, but they are alert and blue,
Of the brightest and purest. As I looked at
color poems of his with the very heart of
life and beauty laid bare upon |
little old lady of the most ordinary type,
with pretty gray hair and almost fearsome
costume; It consisted of a black satin
skirt and a high-necked tea Jacket of green
satin embroidered with red roses. Miss
Tadema is very picturesque in appearance,
dark almost to swarthiness and with won
derful black eyes. She was dressed entire
ly in black.
In the front row of the stalls was Miss
Braddon (Mrs. MaxwelD, beloved of our
youth. The venerable arthoress of Lady
Audley's Secret was in a black silk gown
trimmed sparingly with jet and cut in a
round decolletage, while she wore a widows
cap OF size. from which flowed
bare back. The union of respectable
with frivolous festivity was de-
and Lady Monckton. She is a Sa ~we ri Town
and very talented actress, while her hus-
band is clerk of the city of London, a very
great parsonage indeed.
Mr.. and Mrs. James M. Barrie were not
Tar OFF, he looking fearfully frail as usual.
and she exceedingly pretty. The wife of
the celebrated Scotch novelist and play
wright was, before her marriage, Mary
Ansel, and quite a promising actress. 1t
was. while she was playing with Toole in
Barrie's first comedy. walker, London"
that he fell in love with her, She is ,aTiler
fair, and on Tuesday night had her abund-
ant hair bound by a fillet of cherry-eolo,ed
satin, while touchas of cerise velvet bright
ened her CHARMING gown of white satin.
er sister, looked delightful in black satin
and lace, aer lovely auburn hair
adorned with a diamond crescent. Ailsa
evening (Ellen Terry, looked a brilliant
patch of color III an exquisite frock of
cherry-colored satin with a folded ichu of
beneath a broad belt also of cerise.
never remember seeing her look so well.
although it seemed absurd to think of her
as the daughter Of the sweet Imogen on
and Mr.. ElWyn Barron, and that beautiful
young American actress. Miss Julia Ar
and white silk with a broad folded belt of
vivid scarlet and a deep berthe of lace
falling over her shoulders.
Mrs. Mapleson Mime. Malvina Cavalaz-
I'D also caught sight of, in black, and
looking very handsome in white satin and
many diamonds. And there were countless
numbers of other folks, Marie Corelii. in
pale blue: Nine. Sarah Grand, in black;
Mrs. Joplin Rowe, in black and white; On,
slow Ford. r. A; Henry Arthur Jones, Ed
ward Rose, Anthony Hope-but L could go
had time, but all this while / have not
mentioned a word about the actors or the
play. And as l have gone to the Lyceum
to see a play, why undoubtedly the plays