Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-26
GAY GOTHAM GOSSIP
"Parsifal". and Pandora" Are
Getting Much Attention.
ARE PREVALENT RACES
BEAUTIFUL cLAIRvoYANT MAX
ING BIG MONEY.
Dramatic Experience of One Fysh-
Prize Fighter in New Role
Move for Public Boxing.
ARE PREVALENT RACES
special Correspondence or The Evening Star.

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Special Correspondence OF The Evening Star
NEW YORK, December %, 1903
"ParsifaI' and Pandora" are the preva-
| lent RACES of New York. More than
| enough has already been said and written
| of "Parsifal." Conreid's production of the
! mystical Wagner opera has been the most
| stupendously advertised affair. of the dec
| ade. and the beauty of it, from the i'm
| presardo's point of view. is that the ad-
vertising hasn't cost anything. 1t was only
necessary for the pulpiteers and the pub
| lie moralists to denounce "Parsifai to
| assure Its success in New York. Perhaps
Frau Cosima Wagner was not so far af1eld
when she recently termed the shrewd and
| hirsute Herr Conreid a "Barnum from
Vienna
Pandora" Is receiving a vast lot of FREQ
advertising. too, and this. of course. is
equivalent to saying that she is getting the
money. Pandora" Is a clajrvoyant. She
went into the second-sight business here
| less than two months ago. but already she
has more customers than she can dream
OF attending to. Her engagement book is
filled up to the end Of next March. She
patrons what they already know, and all
of them depart from "sittings'' with her in
more or less of a state Of rapture-the male
patrons particularly
Now, the usual and conventional clair
voyant of New York is a frowsy, stodgy
woman, in a greasy wrapper and with I'M
tidy hands. who, in a dingy "parlor" per-
vaded by the permanent aroma Of garlic
or cabbage. tells her visitors foolish and
impossible things In a raspy, cigarette
hoarsened voice. Her patrons are COM
posed mostly of love-lorn chambermaids
with occasional visitations from light head
IaI
oppressed by the belief that their hus-
bands don't love them no more
Pandora Has New Workers. Going.
From this Pandora" is as different as
Calliope from Carrie Nation. Pandora"
is as beautiful a woman as ever held a
crystal globe between the rose-pink tips Of
her tapering fingers and gazed Into the
abyss Of the future out Of violet eyes. Some
| readers of this may recall the appearance
of Julia Nelson, the sumptuous, Greek
faced English actress who came to this
| country with John Hare on his first visit.
Well, Pandora" might be an even hand
somer sister OF Julia Nelson, Titan hair
skin of the peach. classic contour of
face, sloping ivory shoulders, and all. No
lovelier woman of England, in square fact
has ever come to these shores than the
Countess de Grammont-thats Pandora"
She is Of the nobility of Britain by birth
as we'll as by marriage Nobody knows,
or cares to know where the Count de
Gramnont is. Asked about him. Pan
dora" looks bored and shrugs her superb
shoulders. The shrug may mean many
things. But 1t plainly does not mean that
she Is worried to the whereabouts Of the
Count de Grammont.
Pandora receives in a very beautiful
room of soft lights and neutral shades, one
Of many such rooms in her apartment. Her
receiving gowns are Of clinging, classic
simplicity. In some far room of the apart
mant 2ntOmat tic harm iS giving mt
liquid music, as of sunken silvern bells.
Pandora" regards you for long time in
silence. not broodingly or loweringly, but
with the intense philosophical interest of
modern Hypatia.
Then she hands you the crystal globe, you
clasp 1t in both hands, she gazes into its
depths, meanwhile running her fingers
lightly over your hands-and skllfully
crosS-examines you in a distant, dreamy
tone that accords well with the assonance
of the harp notes. She cross-examines you
50 cunningly that you are not aware-until
later, when the spell has in measure lifted
that you have told her all of the essential
facts about yourself Then Pandora" tells
them all back to you-that is all
She Is Worth the Money.
But it Is worth the money, and more
Genuinely spirituelle women are scarce
nowadays. and few women possess so dull
Get voice as has Pandora" 1t is worth
while to be reminded in real life of an Alma
Tadema picture right'in the center of grimy
New York in the twentieth century, and If
you have any sort of an lima gination you
reflect upon how well this Pandora would
have looked say, a little matter Of twenty
five hundred years ago. leaning upon the
forgotten Tyre in her lap and shading her
eyes to gaze out upon the dawn-touched
Ionian sea. 1t doesn't make any difference
what she tells you You knew all that be-
fore, anyhow.
The space in front of "Pandora's'' apart
ments Is cluttered by the carriages of the
wealthy, and the gold swirls toward her in
a tide. After ALL New York is not so work
aday as it has been portrayed The age
Old laundering for even a suggestion, even
an imitation, of the mystical prevails over
here as 1t does-and maybe it ought to
everywhere else in the world. Few visit
ants however have understood how to take
S, skillful an advantage of this well-recog-
niZej human longing as the deep-eyed and
satin-skinned Pandora" Again has it
been proven that old things, done over
again but done well. take" better In New
York than new things.
Dramatic Tale Of One Fysh.
The Fysh who is now occupying good
deal Of the attention of New Workers seems
to be queer one, and the story in which
he has come to the surface mas in 1t the
markings Of very active modern play.
Fysh 10 a groomed and good looking man
Of the world, with an English accent,
though he is an American. A few days ago
he swore out a warrant against a woman
named Inez Hyland for stealing, as he
claimed. $4,000 worth Of diamonds from
him.
When the detectives found and arrested
the woman they were dazzIed by her hand
some, dashing. conventional-stage- adven-
turess appearance, as nearly everybody else
has been who has seen her in jail and in
court.
Fysh knew Inez and her husband he said
in South Africa He, Fysh, had been a
railroad official and later a captain of Brit
ish cavalry In South Africa. At the close of
tho Boer war Fysh had come to the United
States, and not long afterward the hand
some Inez-separated from her husband