Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-08
&c Some Women &c

n Me day last week the cable brought
us from London news of the
" death of Lottie Collins. The an
nouncement created scarcely more
than ripple of interest. Who was
Lottie Collins and why should her
death be chronicled? That was the
query the newspaper telegraph edi-
tors put to themselves, and being un-
able to answer it satisfactorily most
of them threw the item on the floor.
Yet short two decades ago Lottie
Collins was the idol of the British and
American public. In night she sprang
from an obscure position in one of the
London halls to fame and prosperity.
The medium of her success was
silly song, composed by Henry j. Say
ers, a performer in the old Thatchers
minstrels and which had not made any
particular hit, until Miss Collins
CHANGED upon 1t and sang it in Lon
don.
Within q week the city was humming
the ditty. Lottie Collins became the
rage and "Ta-ra-ra Boom Decay" was
heard oftener than Rule Britannia"
In month the singers salary jumped
from $50 a week to $500. Then Charles
Frohman engaged her for America at.
$1,000 weekly, tremendous salary for
those days, and not to be sneezed at
even now
Lottie Collins made her New York
debut September 10, 1892. She had been
loudly hefaded and she made good.
Vaudeville wasn't so important then,
and consequently Miss Collins did her
turn" between the acts of Jane"
comedy running at that time at the
Standard theater. Subsequently she
toured over the greater part of the
country under Frohman management,
and everywhere she proved great
success.
AS d sons Ta-ra-ra Bum Decay
didn't amount to much, but as sung by
Lottie Collins it was coup de the
atre. When she sang:
I'm blushing bud of innocence,
I'm not too bad and I'm not too good
she looked the very picture of mis-
chievous girlhood, but in a twinkilng
of her tip-tilted toes, in a swish OF
silken skirts and a glimpse of silken
hosiery ingenious innocence was
turned into ingenious deviltry; and the
dance which followed, with its explo-
sive Boom De-ay' from the bass
drum, never failed to win enthusiastic
plaudits
Later Miss Collins repeated her sue
cess with another song, Daddy
Wouldn't Buy Me d Bow-wow." Now
she is dead. She outlived her popu-
larity. however, and very few persons
who read of her demise in the news
papers even remembered who Lottie
Collins was. In private life the per-
former was Mrs. Samuel p. Cooney.
She retired from the stage five years
ago.
Miss Louise Gaylord of Chicago
bears the distinction Of being the first
bride wooed and won by wireless tele-
graphy. Miss Gaylord, now Mrs. Wal
ter f. Dillingham;, and whose nome
hereafter will be in Honolulu, was mar
rled the other day in Florence, Italy,
the ceremony being performed at the
home of her uncle, Arthur Nj. Acton.
Leading up to the marriage was
eourtship replete with romance, and in
which a certain Sisnor Marconi admin
istered first aid to the little blind god
of Love.
With her mother Miss Gaylord de-
parted from Chicago last September
for trip around the world. In Hon
olulu she met Mr.. Dillingham;. 1t was
a case of mutual love at first sight, but
the Honolulu man, though most assidu-
Gus i'm his attentions, failed to ask the
momentous question and the visitor
sailed away, en- route to Chicago.
Then Mr. Dillingham; began to up
braid himself for his hesitancy. Final
~ ne cOulQ wait no luIBtI, anu 81 III
voked the aid of the most startling of
modern nventiOns-wireless telegra-
ply A message flashed across the
waters to the fast receding ship, and
another message of just one word
flashed back. That word was YES"
The aristocracy of art troubles itself
not at all with family trees. Arbor-
culture makes no demands upon its
attention and conservation is not
taught in conservatories of music,
whatever you may have thought in the
matter.
one of the stars-the bright, partic-
ular star-of the Metropolitan opera
company is Nine Olive Fremstadt.
Like most of the great singers Nine.
Fredstadt comes from Europe. Unlike
most of them, however, Nine. Frem-
stadt came to this country in the
steerage Nowadays her press agents
do not put much stress upon that tact'
It's barely possible, indeed, they know
nothing whatever about 1t.
The girl, a Scandinavian, went with
others of her kind into the northwest,
finally arriving at Minneapolis, which, i
nv the way is the third city of the
world In point of scandinavian popu-
lation, the first being Chicago and the
second Stockholm There she found a
place as a servant in a family which
had but one, and Olive Fremstadts
first employment in the land OF her
adoption was the making of beds, the
washing of dishes, simple cookery ana
sWeeping. She was a devout young
woman, and at once began to attend
divine services at the Swedish tapef-