Arizona republican., 1898-04-15
GOSSIP OF NEW YORK.

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 E. S. Willard, who has Succumbed to Chicago, like several visitors to that city this winter, is one of the English actors who have practically made America their home,. and his appear ances within recent years in his own
 country have been neither successful nor profitable. He is highly popular
 here, and it is not likely thau he will
 risk repeating h1s latest London ex-
 perience very soon. About the most
 that visit accomplished for him was to lose a large part of his American earnings. He has not acted now for two years in London, although he was at one time one of the most popular actors there. Whatever their popu- larity in America is something that all English actors desire. as one season of prosperity here is more profitable than many years in England. With only the provinces open to them, they yearn for the broader fields that can be conquered here. Beerbohm Tree,
 John Hare, and Mrs. Bernard Beere failed to repeat the experience of the Kendals and earn in several years here fortune sufficient to make them independent of all professional work afterward. Olga Nethersole succeeded succeeded here, and with MT. Willard has been more envied by her asso- ciates than anybody since the Kendals Sir Henry Irving has, of course, been popular always here, and it has been rumored that he expected to return to this country next year in order to mend his fortunes, which have not been of the best since he was here two years ago. MT. Willard is the most regular of the English visitors, and re- turns yearly. His actors are always English, and SO are his plays Be- yond the fact that he arts in this coun try and not in his own, Mr. Willard has little affiliatfon with anything American. But as art knows no coun- try, and America seems to want him, there can be no possible objection to this course. MT. Willard's break down has been attributed to over work. Not only does he dispense with a press agent, but he is his own manager as we'll, and his staff consists of only a private secretary.
 On Monday afternoon a man rode up Fifth avenue in a victoria, seated next to a woman who was modishly dressed. The man was we'll dressed, save for one feature of his attire, which puzzled everybody who saw him. He wore fur cape similar to the kind popular among women, although it looked somewhat longer. The color of the fur was dark and the hair long. The cape, although of finer fur, was of the kind worn by coachmen in cold weather. The man and the woman chatted together and both seemed in different to the obvious attention which the curious garment was at Reports have reached this country that the fur cape has recently become fashionable in London for men who make a particular study of dress The style is not likely to become pop ular here, if it always attracts the same attention that it did on Monday The wearer looked as if he had picked up his wife'S wrap in hurry. or bor- rowed it from her in the sudden chill that the weather caused. Whatever the cause of the phenomenon may have been, the result was not success full from a spectacular point of view. The sight of a middle aged man with a mustarhe wearing silk hat over what looked like a woman's fur cape will need a very strong London in dorsement before it ever becomes pop ular here But nobody ever supposed that some articles of dress no less ec- centric would ever attain the popu- larity which subsequently came to them, and the fur cape may be fea- ture of mems dress next winter.
 Whether the prince of Wales takes to riding a bicycle in order to create a greater activity in the sport abroad or whether he does not, one truth is established here. The bicycle gaiter, high shoe or ankle concealer of any kind has disappeared so far as women riders go. The feminine ankle is now concealed by nothing heavier than golf stocking, and from that the cov ering ranges down to the thinnest of silk stockings and in some cases an open-Vork one at that. One of the particular objects of bicycle dress at the outset of the craze was to devise something which would cover the an- kle, and the simple expedient of de- pending on nothing more than a stock ing was not thought of until prelim- anary course of other methods had been gone through with. After long skirts there came leggings and high boots, which were cumbersome as well as ugly. Only last spring did the stock ing appear to have suggested itself, but it's popularity increased steadily. Today it has triumphed and its disflg-