The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-23
MARIE D'ESTLY TAKEN BACK.
LY TO RIVAL MISS KIRWIN
AGAIN.

Miss Hamilton, Directress of the
Company, Laughs ut the Idea of
Professional JeaIOusy-The Com
pany Is TO Take Trio of savan-
nah Girls to FIJI the Vacancies in
Its Chorus.
One of the two chorus girls of the VIII
bur-Kirwin Opera Company, who were
dismissed on account of an infraction of
the rules. the management says,
was taken back yesterday afternoon and
appeared last night in the living pictures.
This was Miss Marie DeEstly. Miss Maud
Poole is still out of the ranks, and there
seems to be no probability of her returning.
Mass kirwin has agreed TO take four
girls from Savannah with her company.
one of these is from Tennille, while the
other three are said to be Savannahians.
The management of the company will
not diVulge the names of the girls
MISS Hamilton, the directress of the COM
pany, seemed to be not at all certain
that she herself knew the names. but
even the slight extent of her knowledge
was not made known. She said that the
girl from Tennille will be taken away from
savannah on this trip. The company
leaves this morning by the Plant system
Tor Tampa, and the Tennille girl will be
given, unless she should change her mind
IN the meantime, an opportunity TO make
her hTst appearance upon the stage. The
three Savannah girls have said they will
JOIN the company when it comes back
through here in a weeks time en- route
70 Augusta, where an engagement will
be filed
Speculation is rife as to the identity of
the embryonic coryphees. No one seems
to know who they are. The management
OF the company in the cases in which they
are aware of the names of the girls, slave
adhered to promises to keep the secret.
Even the attaches of the theater do not
know much about the matter.
When the company first appeared here
a notice was upon the programmes saying
that Miss Kirwin would be able to place
a few young ladies in the chorus. At the
time several applications were received,
II is said, but the applicants We're not up
to the standard as conceived by the man
agement. and the girls were obliged to
remain where they will probable be better
om-aWay from the stage. The dismissal
OF Miss Poole rendered the demand for
additional girls all the more urgent The
company will go away with the same num-
Der of girls it brought, as the Tennlle as
pirant for Thespian honors win take the
place of the pretty little auburn-haired ac-
tress who was dropped.
Manager Wilbur was asked If either of
the two girls had been taken back.
are you gentlemen still working that?'
he asked. Il suppose though that we have
been here so long that the interest of the
public has been awakened in the members
of our company One would think from all
that has been said about the matter that
prima donna had lost her position Why.
/ have been in the theatrical business for
number of years, and during nv exper-
fence ] have hired and fired, perhaps, a
thousand chorus girls. Miss DeEstly has
been taken back as a member of the com
pany, but Miss Poole is still on the out
side"
Miss Hamilton said that the girls knew
very well why their notices were received;
that they were fully aware of the rules of
the company, and that their infraction
would be followed by something in the way
of fines or dismissal. She said that Miss
Poole has been one Of the most efficient
members of the company. Her talents have
been of a sufficiently high order to admit
of her being selected as Che understudy
for the prima donna. There was no ques-
ton as to her ability, Miss Hamilton said
Miss Poole is still at the Planters hotel.
The idea of professional jealousy having
entered at all into the question was laugh
ed at by Miss Hamilton. She said that
such a thing as jealousy of Miss Poole
had probably never found a moment
lodgment in the heart of Miss Kiryin.
An article in the Atlanta Journal, at which
place the company filled a six weeks en-
gagement was shown Miss Hamilton. 1t
also ascribed the dismissal to jealousy on
the part of the prima donna toward her
under study, but Miss Hamilton said some
motive must have inspired the article. as
there is absolutely nothing to give 1t color.