The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-10

Solomon Islands would get his picture,
because it is rumored that he was eaten
last month and q successor has not yet
been appointed.
Manager eagerly = What draw it
would be to get La Belle Birdie engaged to
perform at the coronation. think you
/ had better go on ahead to arrange the
booking.
Press Agent (anxiously) Pm too young
to die yet
Manager-Pshaw! You need not run
any risk. There would probably be a
hitch in the arrangements = the royal
treasury is not rich enough to pay the de-
post required by our star. Now | come
10 think OF 1t. the King OF the Solomon
answer our purpose.
Press. Agent-Do you expect those TEL
lows will offer contracts?
Manager (mysteriously) That's my
affair.
Two months later (extract from La
Menieuse du Soir, Paris): A most inter-
estIng piece of news is ca bled to us from
New YORK. The Lama of ThlDet was re-
Gently looking over an odd number OF the
London Graphic brought to Lassa among
the belongings of British traveller who
was murdered for trying to cross the
frontier of Tibet. This Graphic con-
tanned picture of the celebrated Amer
lean gymnast, La Belle Birdie, in the act
OF posing on crystal electric globe. The
Lama was so charmed that he dispatched
courIers across the mountains to the near
est telegraphic station in India, charged
to offer La Belle Birdie her own terms il
she would go to Thibot to dance for him.
She Is understood to have asked and re-
ceived such sum as La Patti in her wild
est dreams of avarice never pictured. She
will go from New York to Thibet via Lon
don, Paris, 81. Petersbur., Siberia, Vlad-
livestock, San Francisco and Calcutta, Civ
Ing performances en- route. The leading
geogra phlcal societies of America and
Europe are arranging to confer honorary
membership on La Belle Birdie, as she
Will be the first white traveller who has
ever seen the Lama of Thibet.
Later telegram: Two or three geographic
cal societies have telegraphed to La Belle
Birdie to ask if she will accept their
medals, and she has replied in the affirm
alive.
Later telegram: There is rumor that
the Emperor of Russia has telegraphed
to La Belle Birdie to arrange an interview
in st. Petersburg. It is understood that
he will lntrust her with an important
communication to The Lama, relative 10
the utter humiliation OF British rule in
India. A deep political significance is at
tached to La Belle BRIDES journey to
Thibet. Queen Victoria is said to have
expressed grave uneasiness on the SUBJ
ject.
LIE Menteuse du Soir 1.-TWO months later:
The protegee of the Lama of Thibet. La
Belle Birdie. opened her engagement at
the Varieties last night amid scenes OF
the widest enthusiasm. The immense
crowd which had gathered out of curiosity
remained 10 applaud, and the enthusiasm
reached its climax when La Belle Birdie
introduced the Praying Machine Poise.
which she has invented for the editication
Of the Lama. She stood on an electric
globe, illumined from within with mystic
colors, and her press agent afterward
affirmed that he distinctly overheard Presi-
dent Faure, wno was present, declare
that the daring athlete deserved the cross
OF the Legion of Honor
La Menteuse du Soir (ten months later).
La Belle Birdie has returned from San
Francisco via Vladivostock to appear
again at the Varieties in a new Praying
Machine poise. In an interview to-day
she expressed a fear that the Lama of
Thibet was about TO sue her for breach OF
contract, as she has notyet been to Thibet,
but she said in that case she would have
to compromise or pay damages, as she has
now made important engagements for
three years to come. Some of the geo.
graphical societies are talking of with
drawing their medals in consequence CT
La Belle Brides action, but 1t is under
stood that in the face OF the Juror she has
every where created they can scarcely re-
sort 10 so unpopular measure.
Some wild rumors are also aioat that