Evening star., 1901-07-20
GOSSIP FROM LONDON
THE KING AND QUEEN TO ATTEND
THE COwEs REGATTA.
Hardships of American Actresses
Seeking q Living on the
English Stage.

LONDON, July 20.-London is fast emp
tying. the recent heat wave having given
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 necessary
FLIP which has been wanting to every
fixture this year. King Edward has char
tered his old yacht. the Britannia, for the
Cowes regatta, and most Of the habitues
Of Cowes will be there. One London paper
hears that the American yachts which
will be at Cowes are expected to beat any
thing ever seen before in the roads for
luxury and splendor.''
The London theatrical managers are
making haste to close their theaters. Sir
Henry Irvings season at the Lyceum ends
tonight. Sir Henry and Ellen Terry will
make a tour of the provinces, and will
open in New York October p.
A lot of choice wines. champagne and
clarets. belonging to Sir Henry Irving
were sold at Christie's auction rooms yes
terday at low prices.
The Haymarket, where THE Second in
Command has been one of the few sue
cesses Of the season, and the Duke of
fork,s Theater both close their doors after
tonight's performances. The opera will
continue for another week.
According to the latest Interpretation Of
the British law, the audience in a theater
enii thiow stoHeS at the stage with I'M
punity. rowdy has been hauled up in
a police court. charged with throwing
stones in music hall at Hoxton Six or
seven stones were produced in court which
had been picked up from the stage. But
the magistrate held that, in the absence Of
evidence that any one had been struck by
the stones or individually pelted by the
thrower, the prisoner must go free.
The suicide in London this week of Ida
and Edith Yeoland, actresses, in conse-
quence of their lack Of professional en-
gagements, has forcibly brought to public
notice the difficulties of making a liveli-
hood on the London stage and the fact
that there are today number of tolerably
good actresses in London who are destitute
or next door to it.
Among these actresses are Americans
who have come over in the hope of making
hit and who find engagements almost i'm
possible to secure without social and finan-
cial backing. The struggle in the gloomy
rooms of Bloomsbury continues; the act
resses are ashamed to go back to the
United States and confess their failure
and that they were unable to secure en-
ployment in London for that moderate de-
gree of talent which would generally assure
them engagements in the United States.
pftiful case came up this week when
an American girl. who had done very well
at home and who was well connected, ap-
pealed 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 It Is a
beggarly pittance that actresses get in re-
turn for their services, unless they possess
exceptional talent or backing. At perhaps
the most fashionable of all London theaters
girl taking quite a good part will only be
paid f3 a week, from which sum she must
provide her own dresses