The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-19

10 Lady Margaret, youngest daughter OF
Lord Roseberry, is of exceptional inter
est in social and political circles. where
both Of them enjoy unusual popularity.
| The fiancee is known to her friends as
Peggy" She only recently came out,
and has great personal charm and many
accomplishments. She will inherit great
wealth. On the other hand, the Earl of
Crewe is one of the ablest, best looking
and richest Of the Liberal peers, with a
distinguished political future. He has
beautiful houses, great estates, owns race
horses writes poetry, and has grown
up daughter. Another. interesting en-
gagement is thats2of the Hon. Mary
Hughes to Lord Edward Pelham Clinton.
The latter IS a widower and is an uncle
of the Duke of Newcastle, whom he will
also probably succeed. as both the duke
and Lord Frances Hope, who married the
American actress, May Yohe are child
less. Lady Mary is a granddaughter of
the first Earl Ravensworth, is a maid of
honor and is a great favorite of Queen
Victoria who presents her maids of honor,
on their marrying, with the traditional
dowry Of $1,000 and cashmere shawl
The Prince of Wales on Thursday. pre-
sided at a meeting of the committee hav-
ing charge of the national memorial to the
late William F. Gladstone. at which it was
announced that the subscriptions had
reached the sum of G25, sos. During the
course of the proceeding the Prince of
Wales made a very graceful reference to
Mr.. Gladstone saying: II am sure that
my wish will be that Of the country gen.
orally that the statue memorial may be
worthy of him and worthy of our country.
Nobody had a higher admiration for the
great, statesmanlike qualities of Mr. Glad
stone than I, and 1 may add that bore
him great personal friendship"
| circles by the extraordinary announce
ment that the MIllwaH Dock company
would pass its dividend owing to the dis
covery of deficit Of over e200,0o0 Isl, OO0-
/ 0O00). The chairman of the company has
disappeared and the shares have dropDed
I about twenty points; but the accounts
have been so manipulated that the diree-
tors were led to declare dividends which
were not earned.
Theatrical circles were absorbed most OF
the week in the charges of Manager Low
enfield, of the Prince OF Wales theater,
that an organized mob attempted 10 ruin
THE Coquette" when II was produced on
Saturday. Mr. Loewenfeld also asserts that
| the gang was sent by rival manager,
| Interviews with all the other prominent
managers have been published and they
are unanimous in expressing themselves
| against the belief that any organized OPP
position was responsible for the tumult-
uous scenes occurring at many first nights
But there is no doubt that much of this
! frst-night opposition IS caused by the pres
euce of paid cliques. which are becoming
a smuch of r nuisance here as in Paris
The dramatization of " ATaIe Of Two
! Cities" by freeman Wills. produced a;
/ the Lyceum theater on Tuesday. met with
| only moderate success. It has been prac-
tically settled that the entire Teatro Della
! Scala company will come from Milan 70
| the Drury Lane theater in June. The
/ Iyceum theater has definitely passed ont
/ Of Sir Henry Irving's hands The pros
! pectus of the new company Will he issued
next week. Associated with Comyns Carr
/ on the hoard OF directors Will Re William
Greet. the lessee Of the Garrick and
/ Comedy theaters. Irving viii reappear al
! the INceum theater on April I in Robes
! pierre" and from September l 10 the end
! OF the year Wilson Barrett VIII play AT th5
I Iyceum. A period covering one hundred
| performances vii always besUrrecced for
| Irving during the early part OF each year,
/ The mild weather prevailing here con-
/ trasts forcibly with the cold weather ii
( the United States. Fer some days past
/ the sunshine in London has been summer
( like and the reports Of the terrible weather
/ experienced in america has been read with
Amusement. The temperature over the
/ greater part Of Europe Is fairly high. The
Daily Chronicle epi5omizes the general
! feeling with the cry: God bless the Gu..
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