Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-05-05
New York Every Day.

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1t is likely that Mary Mannering will
act next year in Anna" a play by
/ Charming Pollock, with Central Ameri
ca for its scene and it's chief characters
| picked from colony from the United
/ States.
The art collection of the late Joseph
! Jefferson was sold at auction, a total of
$229. 135 being realized. Top price was
brought by Mauve's Return of the
| Flock which sold for So, $50. The
painting cost the actor $500.
/ In September next John Drew viii
begin his fifteenth annual starring tour
under the Frohman management. Ills
! play will be the new Pinero piece His
/ House in Order" which has scored a
success in London this season
1 The Countess of Yarmouth, who was
| Miss Alice Thaw of Pittsburg. sailed
! for Europe on the Kaiser Wilhelm. Her
1 brother. Edward Thaw, and his bride
sailed on the Caronia. They were al
most the last passengers aboard the Ca
roma. Mr. Thaw refused to say any
| thing about his wedding or how long he
/ intended TO remain abroad or whether
/ they would visit the countess.
/ Mrs James J. Corbett went to Ham
merstein's 5, where her husband was play
! ing, and was held up at the door by Il
| ticket Spectator. He tried to sell her a
| ticket. She declined. She said the spec
ulator insulted her. She went behind the
scenes and told her husband. AS soon
as his turn was over, he went out on the
/ street prepared to chastiSe the specula-
! tor. Corbett slapped the spectators
1 f1@ nnI hn tt.to l.r111.
ming weight is 100 pounds and he is )
| feet 3 inches tall
/ If women wish to have the very lat
est thing in jewelry they must get a
! bangle bracelet set with diamonds. At
/ least that is the verdict of the smart
/ jewelers. in New York. The bangles
have for Il foundation a strip Of patina.
which is set with diamonds so close
together that one can see nothing but
J the band of brilliant stones. OF course,
one must have few loose bills to spare
to buy one of these tritles. for the cheap
est of them costs $40. while from that
/ figure they run up to 81 800.
! Mrs Howard Gould. who some time
ago ordered Henry Jones Thaddeus, an
! artist, to paint her portrait and then re-
! fused to give the latter an opportunity
1 to finish It, must, by order Of Justice
/ Grcenbaum OF the supreme court, pay
! Mr. Thaddeus S5,GS2.14 for breach of
contract. The artist appeared III court
! with the unfinished portrait. Mrs. Gould.
i who is out of town, was represented by
! Howe 4 Hummel When Mr.. Thaddeus.
/ who came from London to press the suit.
! lid NOT see Mrs. Gould. he told the court
! she had run away. The defense present
! ed by her lawyer was that the portrait
/ was to lie Il surprise present for Mr.
! ( i i 4.,fI
! Could about it he spoiled the whole
thing.
One custom of the conductors on the
/ Broadway ears in New York that must
cause Il good deal of trouble to stran-
ers looking for il particular street is that
/ Of calling out the names of theaters in
stead of the streets. The conductors of
| these ears seem to think all their pass
| engers are as we'll yersed i'll the loca-
| ton of the several playhouses as they
are. This brings to mind an amusing in
cident which happened not so long ago
en Williamsburg ear III Fittsburg. The
conductor was either new or fresh. When
Binwiddie street was reached he cried:
"Dinwiddie street; all out for the high
school Then when the car came to
| High street he announced: High street;
all ont for the jail Two well-dressed
women who mad arisen to alight from
the car resumed their seats and rode
to the next stop.
There is only one box in the partierre
row in the Metropolitan Opera house
| that is screened from the view of those
| who use the corridor back of the "da-
mond horseshoe" rs Il promenade. and
| that is the one owned by J. L. Morgan.
When ii is not used by its owner Il heavy
curtain of deep red silk is pulled across
the little window in the door. which eff
| fectually shuts out Il glimpse of the in
terror of the little ante-ro0m of the box
proper. This ante-room was recently re-
furnished by the son and daughtcr-ill-
law of the financicr. The ceiling is hung
with heavy red silk, while on the wall
there is Il mezzotint printed in color Of
Mrs. Sheridan. by GainSborongh. and on
the opposite wall there is Il console mir
rOr with gilt console Of Louis NV.
style. Below the culored print which :
framed in gilt. is a gilded sofa of the
Louis WI. period.
Every cloud has it's golden lining for
the man who hustlcs. The San
Francisco disaster is to he made the sub
ject of the biggest mechanical spectacle
ever produced ca the lines of the Johns
town and Galveston Hood productions. \
| New York man who controls large
tract of space for amusement concessions
ut the jamestown Tri-Centennial expo
sltlon next year says: Artists and
photographcrS are already on their way
to San Francisco to get the material
for reproducing the disaster in miniature
with fidelity to every detail. Ii is prob
able that the spectacle will be w0r!:e ed
ont under the direction of +. ]. Austin
the English artist. who made Successes
of the Johnstown flood at the Buffalo
exposition and Galveston flood ut the
St. Louis Worlds fair. both Of which are
now at Coney Island. From Il show
mans standpoint the Frisco disaster of
fers great possibilities, and we are going
To take advantage of them"
With the aid of Mrs. Hetty Green,
Commissioner Metz has been enabled to
defeat the tinanciers of Wall street and Il
save the city thousands of dollars 1t
developed when the city's bond balance