The Saint Paul globe., 1901-07-21
Get BECCARLY PAY
ACTRESSES In LONDON MUST BE
CONTENT WITH THE BAREST
PITTANCR
LONDON SEASON IS CLOSING
Fashionable Leaders Are Leaving
the Big City-ROsebery Said to
Have New Political
Plans.

LONDON, July 2O-The suicide in Lon
don this week Of Ida and Edith Yooland.
actresses, in consequence Of their lack
Of professional engagements, has forcibly
brought to public notice the difficulties of
making livelihood on the London stage,
and the fact that there are today num-
Der of tolerably good actresses in Lon
don who are destitute or next door to It.
Among these actresses are Americans.
who have come over in the hope Of max
ing g. hit, and who find engagements al
most impossible to secure without social
and financial backing. The struggle in
the gloomy rooms Of Bloomsbury con-
tinues; the actresses are ashamed to go
back to the United States and confess
their failure, and that they are unable
to secure employment in London for that
moderate degree Of talent which would
generally assure them engagements in the
United States.
A pitiful case came up this week, when
an American girl who had done very well
at home, and who was well connected
appealed to the United States embassy to
send cable to her uncle asking him for
funds. She had been almost starving for
three weeks before she brought herself to
the point of asking for help.
Even when employment is found, 1t is
a beggarly pittance that actresses get in
return for their services, unless they
possess eXcetional talent or backing. At
perhaps the most fashionable of all Lon
don theaters a girl taking quite a good
part will only be paid 93 a week, from
which sum she must provide her own
dresses.
SOCIETY BOUND FOR COWEs.
London is fast emptying, the recent
heat wave having given a final kick to
the dying season.
Great expectations, socially, are enter
tanned for Cowes, where the presence Of
the king and queen will give that neces-
sary flip which has been wanting to
evry fixture this year. King Edward has
chartered his old yacht, the Britannia.
for the Cowes regatta and most of the
habitutes of Cowes will be there. One
London paper hears that ''the American
yachts which will be at Cowes are expect
ed to beat anything ever seen before in
the Roads for luxury and splendor'
The London theatrical managers are
making haste to close their theaters. Sir
Henry Irving's season at the Lyceum
ends tonight. Sir Henry and Ellen Terry
will make a tour of the provinces and
will open in New York. Oct 21. A lot
of choice wines champagne and claret be-
longing to Sir Henry Irving Were sold at
Christie's auction rooms yesterday at low
prices.
IN Command" has been one of the few
successes of the season. and the Duke of
Yorks theater both close their doors
after tonight's performance. The opera
will continue for another week
According to the latest Interpretation
of the British law, the audience in a the
ater can throw stones at the stage with
impunity. A rowdy had been hauled into
police court, charged with throwing
stones of
or seven stones were produced in court
which had been picked up from the stage.
but the magistrate held, in the absence
of evidence that any one had been struck
by the stones or individually pelted by
the tnrower, the prisoner might go free.
AsQUITH AND RosEBERY.
The general view among the Liberals
is that Mr.. Asquith has severed himself
politically from Lord Rosebery and that
the situation remains as 1t was imme-
diately after the Reform club meeting.
1t Is noted as significant that Mr.. As
quith deliberately ignored Lord Rose
bery's manifesto.
1t is rumored that Lord Rosebery in
tends to conduct a movement in the
country in support of mis- own views,
which are to constitute a Liberal party
on new and national basis
Lord Rosebery seems incapable of max
ing himself understood, although he
speaks with fiuency and writes with lu-
cidity. Whenever he Issues a manifesto
on the political situation some author
lied commentary upon 1t becomes neces-
sary. His speech at the City Liberty
club was designed to elucidate the let
ter previously sent, but was incomplete
and a third explanatory note would be
out of place.
While he was declaring he would plow
his own furrow, Mr. Asquith's friends
We're pulling themselves together for a
melancholy feast. About 400 Liberals at
tended the Asquith dinner Of whom
only So were members of parliament. Mr..
Asquith's speech was merely repetition
of the views previously expressed, and
was singularly colorless. He maintained
that his protest against the Identification
of the party with the pro-Boer views had
been productive of good. and proved that
freedom of speech could be exercised In
the permanent interests Of their party
and that the country supported Lord
Rosebery's views as to the necessity Oh a