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bare of jewels as an orchestra per-
former. The ornaments they are going
to wear are packed into stout leather
cases upholstered in velvet-lined trays
within and fastened by two very bust
ness-like locks.
In the cloak closet behind her box,
the owner of the jewels first puts hers
on, and there she takes them off and
packs them away before she puts her
nose out into the public corridors. With
bonded coachmen and the BENEVOLENT
care of opera house and safe deposit
vault officials, you would think there
was next to no danger. but jewels are
slippery things, and in this opera house
some notable gems have been lost in
the most mysterious manner
DISAPPEARANCE OF A BIG PEARL
A curiously unhappy instance is re-
membered in society history concerning
Mrs. Willard Ward, whose rings are
quite as splendid as rings can be. She
treasured, however, above all her other
gems, a solitaire green pearl the only
perfect pearl of it's tint that ever came
to New York, and taking off her gloves
one evening to applaud with greater
comfort, she at once saw its setting
was empty. Down on the floor went
the gentlemen with her and her hus-
band, the box opener came in and took
even the carpet up. Folding the skirts
of her dress close about her, Mrs. Ward
went home and had the entire costume
ripped to pieces over a sheet that night,
but the great green pearl was lost for
ever.
That was not, however, half as IN
canny an accident as befell Mrs. Whit
ney, to whose box one night a friend
brought in and introduced a handsome
young Englishman. The goOd-looking
foreigner had a seat behind his hostess
and between one act he dwelt admir-
ingly on the beauty of the single string
of big pearls about her neck. He told
fascinating stories about going down
with diver for pearls off Ceylon, and
eventually she unclasped her string
and gave it to him to examine. He
raved over it's perfection, and as the
curtain went up handed the gems back
with profuse thanks, at once gracefully
taking his leave.
During the act Mrs. Whitney held the
pearls in her hand, so absorbed was she
in the scene and singers, but as the
curtain dropped again she found to her
horror that the slight moisture of her
palm had so dulled the surface of the
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our show was going on, and took me
away by force.
BOOTH AND THE BOYS THEATRE.
THAT almost broke my heart, and
the older boys jeered me unmercifully
about it. Worse yet. they said L
couldn't play in their company any
more, for they Werelc going to b.
bothered with boys not old enough TO
be united from their mothers apron
strings But they did consent to let me
sit in the audience, deadhead, and I
was a regular attendant One night
they had a big house. There were sew
eral pay boys, anorhac deadhead Re
sides myself, and at least four wash
erWomen present. Just as the curtain
went up an unusual thing occurred. 4
man paid his way N and came climb
ing up the ladder. He was all muJied
up in an attempt 70 hide his face, but
1 noticed that his eyes were piercing
and that he had 4. broken nose. TIE
boys before the foOtligh-s paiG little Or
no attention to him at first, but the
time came when he held the center of
the stage. Edwin had just come on,
and was rolling off his zines at a greas
rate, when the mufflad-up man sud-
denly exposed his lace, with the p;erc-
ing eyes and the broken nose, ana,
striding from auditorium to stage-huth
being on the same leval-sei:ed the boy
by the ear, cuffed him soundly and
hauled him struggling down the ladder.
1t was the elder Booth who had broken
up the performance. He was of one
mind with my mother as to the pro-
priety of boys playing at theatricals.
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meeting with tremendous success, both
between covers and on the stage. had
only one line, and it was pure tragedy,
the words being:
I" Farewell. my mother-fareweli
perhaps foreverr
Il had studied that line long and
earnestly, and fancied I could throw a
heap of pathos into it, but my delivery
brought out boisterous roar from
every part of the house. That ended
my engagement.
In 1861 L was member of a vaga-
bond road company, playing all sorts
of roles in all sorts of places. One
night Joseph Murphy, the manager Of
the Philadelphia Arch street theatre
was in the audience. After the perform
ance he sought me out and asked me-
to take supper with him. At supper
he inquired if 1 would like to join the
Arch Street Stock company. 1t was
like asking me if / would like to leave
purgatory for heaven. Would $50 a
week and two benefits do? 1t would.
$50 I joined the Arch Street Stock
company. J. s. Clarke, now a famous
actor in England, had preceded me. and
so had the elder John Drew. 1t was
uphill work for me for a long time.
played Bob Acres the first night. 1 was
as anxious to make the people laugh
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helping to rob Mrs. Whitney of her
most valued jewels.
This experience has not apparently
cured the women yet of obliging adj
miring friends by taking off and hand
ing around especially fine ornaments
for closer inspection. The first night
this season in parterre box, where a
famously handsome and wealthy bride
of the months sits, a, tragic disturbance
arose in the middle of the second act.
The bride had been induced to hand
one of her wedding presents, a perfect
star sapphire, circled with diamonds,
to her sister-in-law, sitting in the box
with her. The sister-in-law was about
to return the brooch when some one of
the many guests who between the acts
always fill this box asked to see the
pin, and so it passed from hand to
hand. After ten minutes, perhaps, the
bride asked for the pin. Nobody seem
ed to know who had it last; a great
f1utter ensued, women shook their
skirts, men run their hands over the
floor in search, the box opener was
called in, and, though the bride stood
by with her eyes full of tears, the pin
did not turn up, and probably it never
will There are some instances of
theft, you know, that are too delicate
for public complaint and for police in
reference. EMILY HOLT.
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Nanderbilt's. Hers is a regular picket
fence of picked white stones with a big
blue diamond in front; and next after
hers for exquisite beauty. ! would class
the imitation of an empress coronet
that Mrs. D. o. Mills owns. Mrs. Sew
ard Webb makes far and away the best
display of opals the opera house has
ever seen, and Mrs. Levi p. Morton
over there can always be counted on
for truly regal emeralds. She is fond
Of wearing beautiful dark velvet gowns
with just a touch or two of priceless
old point, and against the yellow lace
the green stones find a happy back
ground Mrs Clarence Mackay and
Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney are the
TWO young matrons who wear the most
conspicuously lovely gems. The one
has been given some startling diamonds
by her mother-in-law and the other in
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herits her mothers love of pearls. 1t
was one of these ladies who came the
opening night with a rope of diamonds
about her neck, to which was hung a
little muff Of white tulle and violets,
the center Of which was solid band OF
fdiamonds.
However, the most splendid gems
( one sees nowadays are oftener worn by
handsome women from the west than
by our eastern beauties. Mrs General
Winston ef Chicago, for example, viii
catch the lace of her bodice with one
or two pins Of exceeding perfect
water set solitaire, and then. by a gold
chain as fine as q hair, she viii sling
about her neck one pear-shaped pearl
worth all the other collars and tiaras
ia the box next to her.
..She and Mrs. Chatfieid Taylor and
other western bellies have grasped the
most aesthetic argument as to the use
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theatrical boarding house. All boys,
as you know, are fon1 of the theatre
and the fact that actors ATE at my
mothers table, where they were con-
stantly talking shop, added to my nat
ural infatuation for the stage BY the
time I was IL I was fully determined
to be an actor, and nothing could
change my mind. One Of my closest
companions was a boy iamed Theodore
Hamilton, member OF my company
this season, by the way. and one day,
as we were talking in the street to-
gether he pointed out 4 tall, awkward
boy on the opposite side Of the way.
That boys father said Theodore,
is a very big actor. His name is Jun
ius Brutus Booth, and the boys rame
is Edwin
Il remember that I looked at that
boy with awe and wishes he were q
friend of mine, but you know how It is
with boys of Is and boys of r. He was
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that night as I had been to impress
them seriously when on the stage Of
the Baltimore Museum. but the house
was as silent as the grave over my
work. 1 couldn't raise the ghost of a
laugh. After the curtain went down it
was decided to drop me as soon as it
could be done decently. In the mean
time 1 was cast to play the leading
part in John WoDDs, Policeman"
Now. it CHANGED at that time that Phil
adelphia was all stirred up over a real
policeman who was in love with a
widow and had left his post to court
her. He declared that he had been alb
sent in the pursuit of duty. In the play
1 made love to a. butchers wife-played
by COrnelia Jefferson, Joseph Jefer-
sons sister-and the butcher discovered
me embracing her, Whereat he cried
out:
'Knuckles O. beef and ribs O. veal;
here's a go. What's this 1 see?
Il don't recall the written answer to
this but do remember the one 1 i'm
proyised. 1t came to me like a flash.
1t was the Iuckiest accident of my
life. Without remOving--Iny arm from
about the woman's slender form.
said:
How dare you interrupt a police
man in the pursuit of his official duties.
STRIP
That brought down the house. and
there was no more talk about getting
rid of me as soon as possible. In fact.
from that time L was a, great favorite
in Philadelphia.
ROBSON AND FORREST.
81 met with an accident when play
ing with Forrest once that was not so
lucky, though no very serious results
followed. The piece was 'Richelieu." I
was De Beringen, the fop of the play.
When Richelieu. sick almost unto
death, came on, leaning on Jose2h's
| arm, De Beringen says, among other
things:
Fact in philosophy. Foxes have
| nine lives as we'll as cats
Some time during the day an actor
told me of an absurd misleading of this
line, and l was so tickled with the
story that I laughed about it at inter-
| walls every half hour all day long 1t
was running through my head when L
went on the stage. / couldn't Danish
it. and it remained with me when For
rest began his speech. However, L went
ahead. full of confidence.
Fact in philosophy rolled glibIy
: from my tongue; foxes have nine tails.
as well as cats.
Il saw something was wrong from
Forests face before I knew what that
| something was. Then 1 heard the aud
! fence screech with hysterieal laugh
ter.
Huh grunted Forrest, so loud that
he could be heard all over the theatre.
| well, by all that's Internal, hear that.'
BY that time the curtain was COM
/ ing down in response to a hurry call
| from the prompter'S bell
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-25

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a big boy, and we We're little boys. There
was a great gulf between US. Later
we heard that Edwin Booth. my older
brother, and a few other bis boys, were
getting up a little dramatic company.
Still later they said we small boys
Edwins brother, John Wilkes Booth,
being among the number might scrne-
times take part, and we actually did SO
few times. the performances being of
pieces manufactured expressly for our
own company by It's older members.
Our admission prices ranged from one
cent for a boy 20 3 cents for an .T:sh.
washerwoman, and We used 10 take in
enough money to buy candles for the
footlights. My own appearances, how
ever, We're few, since my mother OBJ
jected to so small a boy as [ appear
ing on a stage. even in play, and one
night she climbed to the loft, where
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-25

KeIlie in London. She was attending a
reception given the Prince and Princess
of Wales and wore her six strings of
family pearls with six diamond pend
ants. In the crush around the door of
the ducal town house. while she tried
to press through from her carriage, the
pendants were coclly wrenched frora
her neck. That LONDON episode seemed
to settle it for our great ladies'; they
come to and from the opera house as
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-25

gems they were quite unacceptable.
1t did not take her very long to realize
that the affable stranger had eloped
with her treasures, having left behind
a clumsy duplicate in the poorest wax
imitation. The friends hair grew al
most white when he found his stalwart
Englishman had with all celeritv
quilted the opera house, and that he
had been the innocent instrument Of
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-25
THE FEAR OF ROBBERY.

jewels at the back doors of boxes, and
hurries them off to the security of IN
derground steel defended bank vaults.
Last spring there was a great litter
Of excitement in New York society be-
cause of a gruesome adventure that be-
fell the lovely Countess of Mar and
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A Further Hope.

U UChsy
The previous week she had spurned
him.
L have courted DEATH" he now ex-
claimed. with emotion. but in vainl''
Permit me- she rejoined. smiling en-
gagingly, TO introduce you to my dearest
girl friend. You ought to meet"
And yet it was told of her that she had
no heart.
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Story of a Slave.

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Edwin was then sent peremptorily 70
the family farm at Bel Air, Md, and 1
never saw him again till aftec ne had
become famous, and had myself been
a professional actor for years. When 7
met him I asked him if he renemhe I'd
how his father had yankci him out of
that loft. He did perfectly. and we
had a good, hearty laugh over the re-
membrane.
RoBsoN's LUCKY THOUGHT.
az cannot help thinking that stage
successes are sometimes the result of
lucky accidents. 1 will instance an ex-
perience of my own as an example:
My first professional engagement
was as a member of the old Baltimore
Museum company, when John Owens
was manager of that theatre. The
piece was the Uncle Toms Cabin As II
Is" written and performed to counter
act Mrs Stoves work, which was then.
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ROBSON AND EDWIN BOOTH

I'm way may say that my earliest
instructions were received from Edwin
Booth" continued Mr.. Robson but
they were not very elaborate, since we
were both youngsters when they were
given.
Most of my boyhood days were spent
in Baltimore though L was born in An
napolis. Our family was not very pros
porous when we removed to Baltimore.
and my mother opensl a general board
ing house, which, in time, came to be a
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The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-17
Twas Only an Eel.

A few mornings since Dalles house.
wife arose 70 get breakfast and was
unable to get any water out of the
hydrant in her kitchen. IL having
been quite cold night, the obstruc-
tion OF course was ice in the pipe, and
plumber was summoned at once.
He examined the pipe, and pronounced
the obstruction frost. Though after
having spent half hour heating the
pipe, he could get no water through it,
and secured force pump to remove
the obstruction. OEe stroke OF the
pump, and out wiggled lively little
eel about six inches loag and just large
enough TO I'LL the pipe. How he got
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-17
From Tuesdya,s Daily.

]. ]. Gibbons, Cf Hood River. is in
the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Dufur are visit
Ing in The Dalles today. :.
Mr.. and Mrs Wu. Cantrell of Dufnr,
are visiting In the city.
j. B. Colt will go to Moro this even
ing TO do some surveying. -
John West,soue OF the prosperous
cattle men of?Wahhic. is in town:
James Elkins. one of Albany's
pioneer citizen, was in the city last
night.
This morning TWO car loads of hogs
from Elgin passed through here en-
route to Troutdale.
Clayton L. Mix, advance programer
for Hi Hsnry's minstrel. Ia guest at
the Umatilla House
Remember HI Henry's dig white
ministries appear at Vogt's Opera
house. Saturday, Dec. II.
The steel furniture for the vault at
the court house has arrived and will
be put in place In few days.
The river between here and Rock.
land was closed with ice this morning
for the Hrst time IN two years.
So far colder weather has been ex-
perienced during December than for
several years past. Last night ther.
mometers registered 8 degrees above
zero.
:. Owing to a misarrDsemsnt OF dates
the "Dazzler" will again appear
at the Vogt tonight. Thus The Dalles
will have two theaters In one night.
The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-17
MET A JUST FATE.
A Presumptious suitor Is Shot by an En-
ragged Father.

A Long Creek dispatch-dated Dec. 9.
says: r. ::
A messenger who arrived in this
city late last evening from Susanville,
in quest Of surgeon, reports the
shooting aud probably fatal wounding
of Joseph Frazier by an aged miner
named Snodderly. Persistent atten-.
ton on the part of Frazier toward
Snodderly's I7year-old daughter is
said TO have been the cause of the
shooting IL j. said that on the morn
ing previous 10 the trouble the old
gentleman made arrangements pre-
paratory TO bringing his daughter TO
Long Creek. Frazier objected in a
demonstrative way, and hot words
were exchanged. Later. while Snod
derly was in the keeney store, Frazier
came in, aud Snodderly picked up
rife and fired, .the ball entering the
lower portion of the right lung and
passing through the liver. According
to the statements OF persons down
from Susanville. the sentiment of the
community is with Snodderly, as it
seems that Frazier's attention toward
the girl had beed prohibited by the
father, and when he attempted 10 in
terrier. with the old gentleman's plans
10 remove her To this place he knew
that serious trouble would follow.
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