The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-01

the bright particular female star at the
Gaiety. She made her debut at the
old Gaiety in 1.-THE Toreador," where she
sang Keep Off the Grass and Can
tiVat1ng Cora" and promptly became
the rage. Perhaps she might have fol-
lowed the example of Rosie Boote. now
marchloness of Headfort; Belle Billion.
now Lady Clancarty. and Connie Gil
christ, now countess of Orkney. and
married into the peerage, but instead
she bestowed her hand upon the young
composer of the songs with which she
made her hit, Lionel Monckton. who
also wrote oh! Listen to the Band"
and "The Country Girl"
1t seems to be a question whether
Gertie Millar or her American rival.
Billie Burke, is most popular with the
photograph buyers at present, a state
OF things at which no one who COM
pares their Hkenesses will wonder.
Miss Burke is even more of a new
conner in London than the Gaiety ia
Norlte. she came over here first about
year ago and sang coon songs at
the music halls. She scored" at once
ana George Edwardes, who was look
ing for somebody to do justice to a
particularly catchy melody of the
darky variety that Leslie Stuart had
written for "The School Girl" engaged
Inc Talr Billie. Despite the fact that
10y was supposedly the star"
OF the School Girl the first night no
tlces recorded the fact that Miss Burke
and her ditty, MY Little Canoe J"
scored the success of the evening and
at last accounts, she had repeated the
performance for the 350th time. Miss
Burke is pretty and talented enough to
command a fat salary indefinitely. hut
no doubt the handsome sum which the
sale OF her photographs brings to her
VIII not come an1iss.
King Makes Photographer.
j. w. Downey.. the court photogra-
pher already quoted and who makes a
speciality of taking" celebrities. is now
an old man, and during his long career
mas photographed nearly every ROYALTY
IN Europe. Three cZarS of Russia. two
emperors of Germany-tfe kaiser and
the Emperor Frederick-Napoleon and
three sultans of Turkey have sat before
his camera.
This veteran photographer considers
that he owes his fortune, which must
be stable, to King Edward. MANY
years ago, there was a terrible colliery
accident at Hartley, In Yorkshire. King
edward. who was then quite a young
man, ordered DoWney to take a. set Of
photographs of the disaster. This was
done to the then Prince Of Wales sat-
1sfactlon, and at the York agricultural
show Downey received permission to
photograph the prince and princess
the present queen. Her majesty de-
clared that the resulting picture was
the best she ever had seen. and soon
afterwards Queen Victoria commanded
the photographer to take her portrait
at Balmoral. Downey arranged his
camera in a sitting room and waited.
When the queen came in, she said II
can give you only five minutes, Mr..
Downey. Lord Palmerston has an APP
polntment with me, and / must not
keep him waiting" However, the pic
ture was a success, and from that mo-
ment commissions to photograph royal
ties literally poured in. Downey con-
SlderS. however, that he practically
made his fortune through one photo
graph-that of the present queen, then
Princess of Wales. carrying the Ouch
ess Of Fife, who at the time was little
girl, on her back. He sold 100000
prints of this photograph and made
close on $4,000 out of 1t. At the time
of the diamond jubilee 100000 prints
were sold of a photograph of Queen
Victoria, also taken by Downey.
HAYDEN Church