The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-11-23

board IAquitaine and are due to reach
New York next Monday.
| The FRENCH actress expensive stage
settings will be Of no value to her for
future, use in Paris. 1t was discovered
that the scenery is too large even for
the massive stage of the Metropolitan
Opera house. Orders were issued today
by her business representative to cut it
down to smaller proportions.
The misht proves that the stage of her
thcater il. Paris is much larger than any
in New York: larger, in fact. than the
stage of the Garden theater. where hei
engagement i'll this city will be played.
The dates OF the various large dances
Of the coming season are now beginniu.
to be announced Mrs. Astor has not vet
determined on the date of her annual
January ball, but as it has often taken
place On the evening of the first Monday
Of that month, 4 good guesser would
probably hazard that as the evening Sc
lectcd. Mr.. and Mrs. John Jacob Aston
will spend but little time in town. They
will be at Aiken, probably for il time
and Il little later will sail for Europe
before she leaves. Mrs. Frederic J. &c
Peyster will give two large dances for
her daughters, both at Delmonco'S, one
Oh Thursday. January 3. and the second
On Thursday, February Z. There will be
cotillons with handsome favors, and 300
TO 800 guests. The annual Charity ball
will be held at the Astoria on Tuesday,
January 20.
One Of the features of the Mark Twain
dinner at the I4otos club was the menu
card on which was printed a photograv-
urc portrait of Mr.. Clemens with his
white hair surrounded with lotos BIOS
SONS. These appropriate menu cards
have been for many years features of
Lotos club dinners. They are usually
bound in folded sheet of rough, dark
colored paper. The arr work on them is
OF the best and complete collection Of
them which hangs on the walls OF the
clubs cafe makes an interesting pictorial
! history of the clubs remarkable series OF
dinners. Every visitor to New York dur
ing the past. twenty-five years who was
conspicuous IN music, art, the stage. lit
eraturc or politics has been entertained
by the Lotos club and the dinner cards
on each occasion have been emblematic
of the career of the guest of honor. The
cards, which hang in the grill room,
have each the autograph of the guest in
whose honor the dinner was given.
1t was a queer auction sale which the
representatives OF Uncle Sam held az the
public stores the other day. Packages
sent from Europe and confscated for un-
| paid duty claims were sold to the highest
bidder, after q years storage in hope of
reclamation. Some Strange trans-Atlan-
tic freight was uneartned, by the sale,
which was attended by nearly 200 eager
junkmen. They, scented prizes in the
mysterious bundles, but to their disgust
the majority drew blanks. The sale cat
al0gue contained GA lots, Ten jars, of
! int
BEARINGS brought $50, While a boxf fri OF Of
clothing melted but 81. Small cases and
demijohns of liquors were numerous
Many of the articles were gifts on which
the consignees had refused payment of
tain amount of mixed freight which ney-
er reaches it's destination. Customhouse
vigilance sidetracks every article which
does not yield tribute.
| +. Marion Crawford. the novelist, has
Sone to st. Louis, where he will witness
Viola Aliens performance of his I'm the
Palace Of the King" 'Lorimer Stod-
dard is entitled to all the credit which
sion Of In the Palace of the King :"
said Mr.. Crawford. II am not Il ura-
matist, and the only contribution to the
stage form of the story was in purposely
contracting the durat ton of its action and
IN constructing it broadly on dramatic
lines. | did this much because the play
proposition was the one first discussed
Miss Allen and her mother visited me
IN Italy last year. and there we talked
over the stage possibilities of the subject
All OF the action of the book. as we'll as
OF the play. lies between the hours Of 4
IN the afternoon and midnight
DO you find that such close construc
| Wit 1nS note
story teller"
"Ihe d1antage,' answered the novel
list, in the way of rapid action overbal-
ances, the disadvantages of extra fore
thought on the part Of the writer.
have always taken pains with the con-
ny from beginning to end before doing
the actual writing. To compress all the
action of the narrative into few days or
few hours simply requires Il little more
ingenuity"
Thirty well-known actresses poured tea
Friday afternoon when society and the
stage met on a common footing at thu
Waldorf-Astoria 1t was the third annual
notable array Of matrons We're present
as chaperones. In the big hotel ballroom
the Kaltenborn orchestra of seventy
pieces rendered selections from the Stroll
lers' last three productions, 1.-THE Right
ful Heir,'' "The Lady from Chicago and
| "Phyllis." An added novelty was that
each composer led his own number, SO
that the baton passed successfully from
Reginald de Koyen along a line of nota-
| BILE musicians. The Stroilers had nota-
| bic display Of posters in the east room
There, too the original posters for the
! coming performance were ON view.
Around the tea urns were more than q
score of actresses. Maude. Adams had