Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-10-03

the green predomina:ing. The stunning
gown was topped by a white Continental
hat relieved with bows and folds of n,ack
velvet. The velvet ends a, one cofLer
were tipped with tiny gold spikes. Mrs.
Clarence Mackay was EowEed in deep
blue cloth relieved with touches of white.
and her large hat was of bue velvet to
match, simply draped with the velvet
folds
Mrs Ellen Corcoran. the little Irish
woman who sells papers al the Bridge
entrance, had recently purchased Il SIX
story tenement in Catherine street for
$4,000. The rentals of the building
amount 10 about $4T00 a year and it Is
estimated that Mrs. Corcoran's invest
ment will yield her about Il per cent.
her husband is about -. Mrs. COrcoran
has sold papers in Park row FOR mans
wears and ever since the Bridge opened
has established herself at the south side
of the entrance. She is there daily from
early morning until 9 or 10 o'clock st
night. The stand she takes is the best in
the neighborhoOd, but she has held il only
by waging incessant war on competitors
who would have ousted her long ago il
they could.
1t is rumored on good authority that III
the near future the matrimonial engage
mont Of ]. Lawrence Van Allen to Miss
Daisy Post. niece of Mrs, Frederick W.
Vanderbilt, will be announced. The
young couple are here and are daily in
each others company. Van Allen. who is
y years of age. is grandson of Mrs.
William Aston. and ms father, James j.
Van Allen. was once appointed and con
firmed rs American minister to Italy,
but he declined to accept. Mrs. Aston
favors the match Miss Post is a daucA-
ter of the late William Post of New
York and she is one Of the bellies of New
port. Miss Post is without wealth. Her
sister, Mrs T. II. Howard. a favored
exclusive use of the latter's villa this
season, she being abroad.
IN engagement which is associated
with a pretty romance is that Of Miss
Nellie Harlem Knight Of this city and
Maj. NJ. f. Cathew Yorstoun. an officer
in the Queens service. The wedding
will take place in India, where Mis-.
Knight VIII go 10 meet her hancc. as il
impossible for him to leave his command
Of the PoOna Horse, n cavalry regiment,
Miss knight is 4 member of the choir
in the Madison Avenue Reformed
church. Madison avenue and Fifty-sev-
enth street. She = the daughter Of MI
and Mrs. Ray Knight Her father has
held trusted position with the Southern
railway for twenty-five years. Miss
Knight first met Mai Yorstoun when
in company with her mother. she visited
Sir Henry and Lady Harden at their
country seat near London. Mai. Nors-
toun was also a guest Of the Harhcns
He surrendered at once to the American
girl.
There is one scene in the production
Of "L'Aiclon' at the Knickcrhocker
which has aroused a great deal of adj
verse criticism on the part of those who
were lucky enough to see Sarah Bern
hardt play the role in Paris 1t is the
great climax in the end of the second
act, where the eaglet Snatcbes the can
dcabra from MetternIcn and smashes
the mirror This scene in many ways
is the greatest climax in the play.
II is an expensive scene, Of course
or it was in Paris-because Nine. Bern
hardt actually smashed a real mirror ev-
cry night. At the KnickerboCker the
mirror is merely piece Of glazed tin
In the position in which it is placed j.
is perfectly obvious to at least half the
audience that the mirror is not the gen
uine article. and this impression is CON
Grmed when Miss Adams stands in front
Of it,
But the greatest disappointment comes
when she actually throws the Candida bra
and only succeeds in making a dull dent
III IHe uldu!e OF II.
The wind machine plays a noteworthy
par in the weird ana touching episode
on tie battlefield Of Wagram in LAG
lon" The little duke his fevcrish dream
Of empire completely destroyed, is left
alone. by his own command, at midnig hl
on the field near Schonhruun, beside his
dying grenadicr. who has stabbed h.H-
self rather than return to France 20 be
Shot as a traitor. The youth has newer
before looked on death. and the dying
agony OF his faithful friend increases the
excitement caused by his recent exploit
and the arrest and dispersal Of bis few
adhercHts. He remembers that he is on
th" field where many thousands Of his
fathers followers and their enemies bed
70 death. II seems to hin. in is mood
Of se,f-pNaltation, that this is the cXpia-
tom Is the night wind rises be hears
the wallI@ OF the dying soldiers Their
@Iaau~ grow louder aud then die away
as the wind falls Then. when u rises
a-3iu. he hears The shouts If tAa riefo-e
The management 81 this peculiar eEea-
Is admirable the GroauS. walls and
shouts blending well with the whsti.ae
sound Of the wind.
Four dashinc. gushing. hish-strung,