The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-05-02
ANNA HELD HERE.
Battles in Milk and Travels in Lilly
LantrY's Car.
Anna Held is here.

Anna Held is here.
The most widely advertised woman
in the world is a dainty bit OF French rem
ininity who is living in the handsomest
private car that ever came over IllS
plains.
Anna Held's reputation has preceded
her Her pictures have preceded her,
and if she were to walk up Kansas ave-
nue. nine persons out of ten would rec
ognize her although she is far more
beautiful than her pictures would sug-
gest, beautiful as they are in them
selves.
The car Miss Held travels in cost her
manager So, 900. 1t is the car when
has so often been described as the
handsomest ever built, not alone as to
appointments, but also as to running
gear, which is so heavy that the slight
roll noticeable in Pullman of the best
class is absent, even on the rougneSI
roads. 1t was built for Lily Langtry
and cost Freddie Gebhardt $4,000. At
one end is Manager ZiezfeldtS once,
fitted with a desk, bookcase, divans and
easy chairs, and filled with decorations,
in which dozens of pictures of his star
form the leading feature. That the oc-
cupants of the car are patriotic IS
shown by the presence of a silk Amer
lean flag and scores of knots of red,
white and blue There are curios here,
too, of every description, picked up on
their travels.
Miss Held's boudoir is a dream. There
is a huge bed, some ten feet square, and
easily, is the famous silver bathtub,
which Freddie had built for the Jersey
Lily. The walls and ceiling are of
heavy tufted, tapestried silk, while cab
inets and wardrobes open everywhere,
their doors being formed of full-length
mirrors. In one corner, hidden behind
a door, tapestried like the walls, is a
strong combination safe, in which the
actress keeps her jewels.
The dining room is the chief apart
ment in the car. 1t is the width of the
car and about twice as long as it is
WIDE At one end is sideboard, match
ed at the other by an upright piano.
Both are covered with curiOs and arti-
cles de vertu, purchases and gifts over
one window hangs a dainty gold mount
ed rifle, for Miss Held is an expert Shot-
The windows reach to the floor, making
the apartment a perfect observation car
The big chairs are of willow and are
the acme of comfort. One forgets here
that it is a car, the place being more
like some pretty little villa.
1t was in this room that Miss Held
met a Journal reporter yesterday She
wore a soft, fluffy heliotrope tea gown,
and was far more lovely than her pic
lures Her perfect complexion needed
no make up. Her hair was f1uffed up,
as it is in her prettieSt pictures, but 1T
is in her eyes that the chief beauty of
her face lies. They are full of express
sion, ever changing, and they say far
more than do her pretty, full, moist
rosebud lips.
Miss Held speaks English We'll There
is a touch of an accent now and then,
and she occasionally uses a French
word, to better describe her thoughts,
than cold hard English. Her knowl-
edge of the language is remarkable
when one considers that it was acquired
within year. for Miss Held spoke only
French on her first tour.
IT am a religious woman" said Miss
Held in conversation. You would not
think that if you saw me on the stage,
for there am wicked-a woman of the
world-but why not? 1t is my part. An
actor plays the part of a drunken man,