The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-13
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There were lotus flowers the reader
screamed.
Lotus alba" the pedantic voices shout
cd
Yes. white lotus" the reader screeched,
alternating with embroidered buttons
He could not continue. The audience
was weary of his description. His voice
was hoarce from trying to be heard above
the tumalt. Lillian Russell had quilted
the stage in disgust. Persisitently TO the
on the floors, voices shouted in unison:
Edna. Edna, Edna""
She said: Pray be quiet. We cannot
do anything unless you hush
They applauded. sThey asked her if she
was in love with the play or with them,
She replied.
with you. Actors love only the pub
lie"
She was not in a Greek figure copied
from a bass-relief of the Parthenon, and
yet she might have played Helen to that
audience. No other woman could have
captivated its alteration as well. 1t was
amazing.
From act to act Edna's costume be-
came scantier and scantier. AS the cur
tain rose with the last act Edna emerged
from the sea with just the smallest bath
ing tights imaginable. The boys looked
at the program and shouted
eff there was one more act, what you
wear. Edna?''
''Wait and see," she replied.
Lillian Russell was on the point Of step
ping into her carriage. Her manager ar
rived in time.
She returned to the stage, almost I'M
Willingly. She played and sang better
than ever Plaudits were irresistibly, but
the enchantment of Edna Wallace Hop
per regained its power in an instant. A
courteous old Philide,phian said sorrow
fully:
'4They have the power superior to steam
to electricity and to the genius that uses
them. They have power in the lack of
which poets die in the hospital. or at the
door of the hospital. They have sweet,
immaculate, triumphant and serene silli-
ness"
After the performance Lillian Russell
made up her mind to leave, and gave no.
tice to George w. Lederer that she would
do so at the end of the week.
She was asked by a Sunday Journal re-
porter in Washington if she and Mrs.
Hopper had quarrelled. and gaed at her
questioner with an amazed air. She said:
Il ike Edna Wallace Hopper extremely.
jealous of her? what an idea, We are not
even rivals
81 cease playing because I am tired, be-
cause the rest of the trip is to be a con-
tinuous run from town to town. I was
not offended by what happened at Phil
ladelphia. Disorder of the galleries is to
be expected there"
Edna Wallace Hopper: LILLIAN Russell
IS exquisite. I have a great deal of af-
lection for her.
81 trying to dethrone her? We are not
of the same epoch"
She was ordered by Lederer not to talk
of Lillian Russell.
Mrs. Hopper diverted the conversation
to the weother the races, the achieve
ments Of her dog. Her smile was pref
tily enigmatic.
Mrs. Admired in Philadelphia a child's
cradle in iron gilt an silk yellow or SAT-
from. And they ordered for her there a
large cradle, pink and gold
1t is porper to recall here that Lillian
Russell abandoned long ago the practice
of wearing tights. She was once sued by
her manager because she had refused to
wear them. She replied that nature had
been sa generous to her that it was out
of the question 70 rher to appeal to the
public in the manner suggested. More
cold. When it was pointed out that she
might have WOODEN lining under the
other garments, she said that it was alb
surd. One may truthfully say that it
was on artistic grounds that Miss Rus
sell set her face against the tights.