The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-05-09
Titled Actor Cuts an I'm
pleasant Figure in Court.
NEWSPAPER
Very Uncomplimentary Utterances
Fired at G. F. A. Seymour.
HIS HISTRIoNIC ABILITY MEAGER
This the Allegation of Theatrical
Managers in Earl'A Libel
Suit Trial.
Hsw York suu .se.onal service.

New York, May George Francis
Alexander Seymour, by courtesy Earl Of
Yarmouth and an actor, met all comers
in Part XII. of the supreme court before
Justice Blanchard and asked that every
body with any decency of disposition then
present circulate as widely as possible the
information that he had not been snubbed
by Miss Sylvia Green on Tuesday morn
ing in the court room. Some unkind per
son had said that the earl had been
treated with very small consideration by
Miss Green, who is the daughter of Hetty
Green, and has been summoned in the
action of the earl against the Daily Tele-
graph company. She is to be asked to
say for the newspaper that the earl is a
fortune hunter.
Miss Green was not in court to-day. 1t
was stated that she was within easy call
by telephone. There were other witnesses
! in plenty They all took shy at the
earPs reputation.
Before the witnesses began Henry Woll-
man, who is one of the counsel for the
Telegraph, began his opening. Mr.. Woll-
man began:
Not an Earl.
This plaintiff is not an earl. His father is
not dead yet His title does not count until
his father dies. We will show to you, gentle
men of the jury, that this man calling him
self an earl; rouged his face, painted his
arms and neck and assumed the dress and
of ale loll W
show you that this man associated with
Lord Alfred Douglas and the Marquis of
Anglesey; that this scion of the English no
bility occupied himself with the sale Of bull
pugs. and that he thus made his living; that
Mr.. Froham engaged this Englishman as an
Englishman and that he was exhibited by
Mr. Frohman as a monkey, just as Mr.. Sells
or any other Snowman would exhibit q
monkey.
We will show that the noble earl has made
the name Yormouth immortal in this coun-
try-immortal for infamy and bankruptcy.
The earl scowled and half rose from his
seat. Mr.. HummeI, his counsel restrained
him.
The first witness was Edwin o. Christie.
a reporter of the Telegraph. Mr.. Christie
said that Irving Mark, a theatrical man,
had told him that as an actor Eric
Hope" was rotten" but that he might
pass 1Or SOmeIQluS OF OIQeF IL uS WSAS
advertised as the Earl of Yarmouth
The witness also testified that Mr.. Cum
ningham, the manager Of the American
theater, had told him that the earl had
said that he would lose $1,000 year II
he appeared on the stage in this country
as Earl of Yarmouth. Mr.. Cunningham,
according to Mr.. Christie expressed his
belief that the earl had never possessed
so much money in his life. Mr.. Christie
said that the earl as an actor was useless
and tiresome-
Anything but Complimentary.
cat the time you wrote the article" asked
Mr. Hummel on cross examination, you had
not seen the earl
Il had not
"You interviewed a billposter about him?''
81 did,
''Now, in this article you say" continued
Mr.. Hummel, that heartless manager told
the earl that he was not worth cents week
as Eric Hope? What manager told you
that?''
None" answered Mr.. Christie. The man
ager said he isn't worth = ="
''You changed the words?"