The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-03-15
MISS HELD.

MISS HELD,
Mile. Anna Held, who the New York
newspapers have made famous, arrived IN
Galveston in her private palace car tnis
morning. Perhaps the adverse crtuolsni
of the New York sun contributed as mucn
MS ANYTHING else TO make Mile, Hello wen
known. The Suns facorite appellatlon was
10 dub her the human milk stew pu'
she prospered under it and flourished.
The car in which the little freh.n
beauty travels Is O veritabie palace. As
one enters the front door he is escorted
into what Mr. ziegfeld calls the ante room
and Mile. Held her smoking parlor, the
walls Of this little apartment areas IN
all the rest of the ear-of inquired paper
nnache. heavily gilded with bronze reHs,'
From panels in the ceiling hang humorous
of pictures, many of them OF Mlle. hela
herself. while luxurious sofa and COM
hination wine chest and desk go to com
plete the furniture. BY the way oil the
hall one finally comes to the most beautitui
room in what the chapteuse has termed
| La Palaise Roulon' This is the boudoir
| of the little Parisienne and In II any one
with a particle of imagination might fancy
| himself i'm fairyland Here is the single
| exception to the paper walls OF tue coaeh
| the sides of Mile. Helds private apart
mepts being of padded silk. The hoor is
| covered with Turkish rugs and the pelts
| of different animals, while six mirrors IN
| the wall give the occupant no end OIL
| chance to admire herself. The room ~
! built for convenience, too, for there Is
4 nassare TO the storehouse under the car.
| opening from trap in the floor; little
| safe, built in the wall, and large hath
| tub under the bed. On the other side OF
| tiny connecting passage. which, small as II
| is, has room for wash basin and lava-
! tory, is a guest chamber, decorated almost
| anti han ther
| the dining room with it's handsome furni-
| ture, its Steinway piano, Its pilIowed
| divan and its sideboard filed with rare
| old wines and covered with silver and
| Bohemian glass
| Back of this arc the kitchen and serv-
ants quarters. lone does not need many
| assistants" says Mile. Held, "a cook, q
valet, a femme de chambre, a waiter and
a secretary" with an almost injured air.
| "are quite sufficient" And she rolls over
the country, never leaving her palace nut
| taking 1t with her in way that would
not have been considered possible even fif-
teen years ago.
Mr.. f. ziegfeld, her manager. said to
The Post representative that this was Mile.
Hed's first trip South. Tomorrow after
| noon they will be In Houston, will go from
there to San Antonio and Austin. and
showing In Ell Paso will leave the State
for California. appearing first at Los An
geles.
Anna Held drew the largest crowd here
tonight that has ever been inside the
Grand opera house at one time. Her APP
pearance at the close of the three act farce
comedy, "A Gay Deceiver." was the occa-
sion for loud and long demonstrations OF
approval Her rendition Of songs II Want
Them Presents Back" and II Want Some
One TO Play With Me" provoked encore
after encore. Other songs that have made
her famous were sung with dash and
brillancy that captured the audience. Mile
Held is the hit OF the season here and
every one left the opera house hoping that
she NAV return.