The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-07

PAObdplys the bOStOIlESG nave not yet tOund
| out; but people on the stage knew, and
| the secret has leaked. 1t seems that on
| this particular occasion Miss Rush had no
| maid, and she didn't know just how to
get into her new-fangled garment. In
some way she had contrived to get into
| the tights as they were offered her, not
| only wrong side out but the. garment was
actually wrong side foremost The effect
was startling. She afterward described the
sensation as though she were being drawn
! up from the rear, and, as a matter of
| course, she walked Spanish all through
| Mrs. Leslie Carter will retire from The
| heart OF Maryland at the end of this
| season, and next season will appear in
brand new tailor-made play by David Be-
| lasco.
about half way between regula ton tights
| and skln-tight boomers. On a recent ap-
| pearance in Boston a newspaper thus de-
| scrlbed her; DIR. Mary Walker in her
palmiest days never wore a queerer COS
| Nine. Adelina Patti, who has been Sc
| flously Ill, is now perfectly recovered. The
| London correspondent of the New York
| Times, speaking of a recent interview with
her, says: 1 met Patti l do not know
| how old she is, but she is still pretty
| enough to fall In love with, and her con-
| versation is inexpressibly charming But
her husband, Signor Niconi, is, fear.
| dying. All his organs seem to be break
| ing down. He has Bright's disease, and
| Is, In fact, internally wreck. So i'll, in
deed, is he that Patti is not allowed to
| see him. Would Patti marry again, II
| she were to be left a widow" 1t would
| not be at all surprising, and she would
| have many suitors for her hand who
would be attracted, not by her money, but
| by her downright beauty and fascination
for she is, without exaggeration as fresh
as a girl of 20.
| Nine Modjeska has made arrangements
with a Warsaw publisher to undertake a
| complete Polish translation of Shake
| speare's dramatic works. Her TRANSACTIONS
| Of AS You Like IT. and Twelfth Night"
have already been published.
A very funny story is told-not by the
| advance agent--of a little experience Della
| Fox had on a recent railway trip from
| Washington to New York, says the St.
Louis Globe-Democrat. 1t seems that Del
| la and her manager, Nat Roth left Wash
| ington together on a Saturday night train
| Immediately after nights performance.
They sat up enjoying the scenery by
moonlight until the train pulled into a
| station near Baltimore. They were to
| stop some time, and, after a moments
| thought, the comic opera star got off to
| take a look at something in the depot.
| what was her CONSERVATION upon return
| ing to see the train pulling out about 500
| feet up the track. For a moment she was
| dazed, and then, raising her skirts enough
| to show the crowd of loungers on the de-
| pot steps a decidedly well-turned ankle,
| she struck out after the vanishing train.
| A brakeman on the last car waved her
back, and after thought of the wildness
| of running after train she stopped. Then
| she remembered that Roth had all her
| ready cash and started again. After a
| breathless trot of about sixty rods she
finally saw the impossibility of catching
| the train, and gave 1t up. But 10, on turn
ing around in deep despair, she found her
| own train quietly waiting on a sidetrack
| with a crowd of laughing men on every
| platform. Another train had pulled in
| and out while she was in the depot, and
| it was that that she had chased. And
| Della blamed Nat for the whole business.
| Joaquin Miller, "the poet of the Sierras,' -
| who has been in Alaska as a newspaper
| correspondent, will make his debut as an
| actor in 1.-THE Heart of the Klondike" at
the Star theater in New York.
When Joseph Jefferson was walking
down School street. Boston, one morning
| with friend, they met Judge Charles
Levi Woodbury., who said: 81 am glad to
meet you, Mr.. Jefferson. You are not so
| tall a man as your father was Where
upon Mr.. Jefferson expressed his pleasure
at meeting a friend and contemporary of
! his father.
'FAnd you are not so large a man as your
| grandfather, whose acquaintance I also
enjoyed" continued Judge Woodbury..
'Well, WELL" said Mr.. Jefferson, I'm
| something of kid, after all
Lottie Collins will go to West Baden,
| Ind, to take a course of treatment for
/ rheumatism. When she returns to New
| York, she will probably join a dramatic
| company.
The actor Is the kindest creature alive,
| always ready to help the sick or the sorry,
to give his services for the benefit Of his
unfortunate contemporaries. and to pro-
mote philanthropio schemes for the inn
| proVement of future generations, says Lon
| don Truth. He opens his purse TO the
| needy grants his money and his best coun-
| sells to the sorely pressed, grudges neither
| time nor thought to the consideration of
the necessities of the least distinguished
| of his associates, and 1t Is on record that
one actor, noted for his careless prompt
| liberalty, on being asked for a subscription
| of 10 shllings toward the funeral expenses
| of a stage carpenter, thrust his hand into
! his pocket, pulled forth a sovereign and
said: Eyes, certainly, here, bury two of
themr'
The Royal Secret will be played here
Nov 26 and Nov. q by Wilton Lackaye
| and his company.
After all that has been said about Mrs.
| Langtry's heartlessness in placing a
wreath on her husbands coffin, decked
with her racing colors the following, TAX
en- from a press association report of the
| funeral in the Liverpool Daily Post, will
be read with some surprise: Mrs. Lang
| try had forwarded wreath to be placed
on the coffin. 1t was a large and mag
| nificent floral tribute, to which was at
tached a. beautiful bow of purple silk rib
bon with a card on which was written the
words, In remembrance Lille Langtry.' Z"
In the play written by the German en-
peror, to be performed in honor of the King
of Italy, the rising sun appeared in one of
the tableaux of Rome, but it was found
that the orb came up over st. Peters, leav-
| ing the royal palace in the shadow The
emperor, therefore, as a matter of inter-
national courtesy, has ordered the sun to
be left out
Sir Henry Irving has had a chair of In