El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-10
EXIT LILLIAN.

| Ddu0 'TluuO Ids pun uOI LOU
down heavy on Lillian Russell agaio
this time, as year ago, in Brooklyn
That is to say, her voice has once NOR
gone back on her. The New YOrl
Journal says OF it:
The last echoes of the overture o
s!An American Beauty" at the Coluu
. bia theater in Brooklyn last night
had hardly died away, when the rlgn
hand side of the drop curtain move
and Stage Manager Coventry, OF tn
Lillian Russell Opera company, ad
vanced towaward the fOOtlights ant
said:
Ladies and Gentlemen-It is witt
mucn regret that am compelled tt
ANNOUNCE to you the indisposltlon o
Miss Russell, and to add that, sorel,
against her own wishes, she Is obliged
by the advice of her physician, to refrai
from singing her role OF Gabrielle Dial
mont tonight. l hOpe"--
But he got no further. A young
man in the rear of the theatre shouted
Rats. you worked Brooklyn that same
way last year"
That's so, that's SOL" shouted {
score of voices from various parts o
the house. "The top gallery took w
the cry Fake. faken' it called out,
adding to the din bvs brill whistles.
! Harry Mann, manager OF the Column
bia theatre, was sent for and told Miss
RusSellS manager:
There is only one thing to do Miss
Russell must address the audience her
self"
But 1 can't" sobbed the famous
singer. Il can't speak above whisper"
| You must appear, anyhow, Insist
ed Mr. Mann.
So after a delay of five minutes Miss
| Russell, in street attire, took the centre
of the stage.
Miss Russell explained as we'll as 81 e
| could the predicament she was in, and
now her Physician would not let her
| make any attempt to sing. The sight
of a weeping woman was too much Tor
the gallantry of the audience. and she
ed in tears" Then Miss Kathrine
Linyard, Brooklyn girl, sang Miss
Russell's part, and scored so marked a
success that she was called before the
curtain at the close of the second
act, in view of the New York Journals
account.
The fact is apparent, that the fair
out polyandrous Lillian has become a
back humber, and is about to be rele-
gated to the library of ancient history.
she has won applause, whole raft OF
it in her time, and left in the slue of
love sickness many bald and empty
mead. She has been the recipient OF
diamonds and whole flower gardens,
adulatiOn and champagne till you can't
rest. But if this gifted woman has
really made the world better for her
having been in it, if she has shown one
wandering soul the light of a nobler
life, if she has ever smOOthed the dying
pillow, and made its occupant feel that
there was brighter existence beyond.
If she has ever brought consolation to
the sick and the suffering, and made
others carry her away in their memoir
les as an angel of light, she has been
% horribly close about it, that even a
New York Sun reporter could not find
it out.
Lillian Russell has bean an apostle |
of the gospel of selfishness, and now |
hat her string is about run out. she |
wi drop from the public memory like |
Emily Soldene, Lydia Thompson.
roste, the Worrel sisters, Aime, Alice |
Oates and other heron-s of the Bur- |
lesque opera whose lives appealed to |
the sen-uous rather than the moral or |
the nobler traits of character. A beau |
tiful face and figure, an attractive per- |
-Onallty. a fine voice-all on the out |
side. Within-a wilderness of unlm |
proved opportunities for good, wither- |
ed, lean and bare. The old, old story
with only such minor changes as differ |
ences in environment may call for or |
occasion. |
Good bye old girl, perhaps with your
voice gone, sense of the responsible |
ties of life and ones duty to fellow man |
may come over you in sober earnest- |
ness, and lead you to reflect for your |
own good, on the fact that this life is |
but a preparatory to unending life be- |
You'd, and that there is time yet to do |
come thing while yet you have your |
physical health.
Chicago has now travelled" in three |
days of grand opera. But never before |
within the recollection of the oldest |
citizen has there been so little interest |
aud such lack of anything resem bling
Carmen, ""Huguenots,
Martha these three immortal fav
orites have thus far been presente
smoothly and to fair audiences-partic-
ularly fair in the boxes where beauty |
and diamonds have flashed resplendant-
Iy.-The Presto.
So the fight between the grand opera
stars is over at last. De Reszke, the
Jealous male, will remain with Grau if |
The Chicago failure doesn't hurt his
and poor Nordica, the object
Of his hatred, will cast her fortune
with Damrosch. She asked her mana
ger for date, and he answered that
she is to appear in New York on the
10Th 1t seems strange that the fight
among the grand opera giants should
lose Just about the time the season is
over. What about the cunning press
agent? He must be considere at all
times, and this looks like his work.
Houston Post.
Hotel employees in Chicago claim
that great singers are stingy. One of
the Auditorium hotel employees in I'M
loading his woes on this subject says:
No one but hotel man has any idea
what sort OF people go to m AXE up this
company. They are wonders for ask
ing questions, wanting favors and
III ngs of that kind. In only few
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