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TIIE OMAIIA SUNDAY BEE: MAY 31, 1903.
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COILOMADO
MRS ASTOR'S SCABBARD GOWN
Her Latest Parisian Dress if Sensation
of Lcndon.
COUNTESS SZECHENYI INDIGNANT
Mia Finds Life la the Comntrr Where
Her Hasbaad's People Lire
tatte Tlreiowf Demand
for Mrs.
LONDON. May SO.-(Speclal. Mra. John
Jacob Aator haa Juat returned from Parla
with an exquisite wardrobe deaig-ned tn the
much dlacueaed dlrectolre style. They fit
her to perfection. Worth and Doucet have
expended houra upon them and the reault
la creations of rare beauty. It la orJy the
pople who think evil morning, noon and
sVji ght who aee anything wrong In the "scab
card" gown. It haa grace, elegance and art
In every line.
Mra. Aator'a frock a are of the modified
order not cut ao closely to the lines of
the figure aa thoae worn acroaa the channel.
She will set her'a off to perfection. One la
of old-world blue iRoman aatln; the color
matches her eyea. It la devoid of trim
ming, aava for a band of embroidery,
Jewelled with aapphlrea which outline the
front drapery. The dreaa faatena on thea
left aide with a buckle of the blue atone.
Tou can Imagine what a picture ahe will
make In thia, croeud by her mass of white
hair.
At one of the court ahe will wear a
white aatln dlrectolre gown cut on the earn
line aa the blue, with Jewel aet In the
atyle pf the period.
There la no other woman In Engllah so-
rlety with auch an enviable capacity for
making her fellow women look "amall"
and Insignificant a Mra. Aator. Thia la
the reault, no ao much of her beauty aa
for hor "atyle." Whether It la becauae
ahe la ao decorative and ao faaclnatlng It
la hard to tell. People literally fight to
secure her preaence at their parties.
Duchesses will postpone their feativlllea In
order to give her a chance of appearing.
She la often followed about a room In Lon
don by a miniature crowd. Tet ahe la tha
quleteat, demureet of women, with nothing
of the "go" and vivacity which makea her
compatriot popular.
The goaatpa aay that "Robert Hichena la
potlrg her for the heroine of hia forth
coming novel.
Coaatrr Life a Bore.
Counteaa Ssechenyl ha been putting little
foot down very decidedly regarding a mat
ter affecting her future. Aa ahe heraelf
expressed It, ah "la not going to apend
her whole time In a rambling old palac
milea from anywhere." When ahe wai
her on her honeymoon ahe expressed her.
vlf atrongly In favor of a London tiouae
Gladys says that "the count la all right
and ahe la very much In love with him,
but," ahe aOds, "love, if siraiued, u Xi
quite aa expeditiously out of the window of
a palac aa out of a cottage."
The count'a womenklnd are pleasant,
(low, dowdy ladles, whole Ideaa ol drea
do not go much beyond their national coe
turn. They never read novel or faehlon
able newapapera and they do their own
housekeeping and cooking. They hv
hocked absolutely the counteaa' amart
French maid, who haa given her mtatresa
ooilc several time lately. Thia la the
i at straw for th nw counteaa. Her eie
'era In-law auggest a tetlv maid. Fancy
Oladya Vanderbllt with a praaant maid.
The gown la the counteaa" $J5i,iO trous
aeau hare been banging up In their linen
bag and th moth are the only thlnga
likely to benefit by them at thia rate. It
land to reason and common ecr.i that
No
n-nyi
Count Sxecheryi must let hta wife have a
periodical flutter In London or Parla.
v Tak of Betas Datlfal.
Thia rase recall that of Daisy Com
wallia West, elater of tha duchess of West
mlnter, who married Prince Henry of
Pleea, now the prince of Pleas. He thought,
too, to shut her up In a wonderful palace
tn Silesia. But ahe rebeled. The kaiser
came to the reacue and talked great deal
to the sprightly Irish girl about "being
dutiful" and "obeying her huaband." To
hla Imperial majesty Daisy replied that
ahe waa not going to "rust or vegetate,"
and that ahe intended to apend overy sea
son and every autumn in England, whether
the kaiser and her huaband wlahed It or
not. She had her way. The k a leer waa
furlou. but Prince Henry of Pleaa smiled
and handed bis wife the cheque DaKy
had not one penny of her own. If aha
pleaaed be came with her to England, and
If she did not chooee he stayed at home.
Even now aha leada him by a alngle hair.
Bhe haa a glorious time.
Mra. Van Zandt, who Is Lord Avebury'a
daughter, will apend the season In London
with her two girl. The latter claim their
right to American cltlsenahtp because their
late father waa a member of the Knicker
bocker family. Their week enrte will be
enjoyed at their delightful cottage in Kent.
There, in an old world garden, with the
hop flelda in the ditance. these girls hava
the time of their Uvea. They are extremely
domeatlcated. know how to milk cows,
make butter, etc. Their great Idea of blU
I to become lady gardeners or poultry
farmers. However, their grandfather. Lord
Avebury. and their mother have a word
to ay In the matter, ao they find them
aelvea. much to their dlgut. In Mayfair
drawing room, wearing Louts-heeled shoes
Inatead of tramping through lenee In Kent
tn brogue. .
Both glrla are nice looking, bright and
full of rivaclty. They have had suitors
galore. I hear. At the moment they have
'owed to remain alngle. aa they never
wish to be separated. But. aa one U U and
the other a little older, this resolve may
be annulled at any moment.
Mra Are la Great Dernaad.
It is a consummation to be desired that
aome of your nlc natural kind-hearted
nt Rritt.h men are
men may noi "
.... ..nnMtK of English wo men who
are n.ver happy unless they are running at
break-neck speed after some man. Craig
Wadiworth of the embaa.y and Mr. an
Alen, eon of J. J. Van Alen, are in great
demand Jut now. They are tmmenae fav
ortiea and mut be twenty deep In lnvlta
tlona every day of the month. They take It
all quite naturally and calmly. Bot.t. 1
am told, have a chuckle over It all at
time for neither Is without a sense of
humor. Anther man who used to bj
"fussed" over was Mr. Choate. a former
ambassador Mra. Choate used to aay ahe
aaa thankful for the day when he was
ordered home o afraid was she that Eng
llah women would give her husband a false
lmrielon of himself.
Mr si-l Mrs. Herbert Grant Vton, -n
former of whom la third sercetary of the
Prltt.h embasar at Washington, ar
spending aon rf their holidays here, .ne"
will be aeen a good deal In the dlplnma'H
circle, especially at Dorchtr house. Mr.
Wa'n has mary admlrera and so M ner
Interesting Pom to which ahe eeema de
voted. He la usually about hie mlstre
on her callng and .hopping trlpa.
I am told Mn. Orant Watson s anxious
to possess oae cl tn "ew CnlnM' an
wh'yli cuntno lever ar ail plnin to wn
just now. Tbey rannot be sought much
under 110.009 and. not being very strong
dog, the outlay is a distinct riak as they
do not slwars live long In the Englisa
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Th Giant Wstsoos are not very keiu n
jicly with big "8" and they won't May
-i y lung In Lot oon. They mean to Jc a
gicat do, of eight-eeelng on the continent
trip can surpass in pleasure and health a vacation spent in the Rockies.
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FANNIE WARD LOSDOS STAR
I Wife of African Millionaire Attracts
Muck Atteatloa.
LONDON. May SO. (Special.) Fannie
Ward, who halls from St. Loula. haa set
London talking not only by her acting In
the difficult part of Kitty In Mra. Hum
phry Ward'a play, "The Marriage of Wil
liam Ashe," but by coming on the stage
wearing $1,000.0(0 worth of diamonds. Not
stage dlamonda, but the real thing. The
public upon which she burst or, perhaps.
In view of the diamonds, sunburst, has
given her a hearty welcome In which curi
osity mingles with admiration. All aorta
of things are predicted as to her future.
She la hailed by aome of the London critics
as a star of the first magnitude.
It will come as a surprise to most persons
to learn that Fannie Ward has been a
resident of England for aeveral year. Bhe
is married to Joe Lewis, a South African
millionaire of the firm of Lewis & Marks.
Hence the diamonds, and the enviable posi
tion of being wholly Independent of success
so far as monetary consideration are con
cerned. It la her love for art high art
that Impels her to brave the flare of the
footllghta and aeek the bubble reputation
In the crltlc'a pen; which. In these day,
la even more dangerou than the cannon's
mouth.
With reference to Miss Ward'a luxuriant
display of jewelery, these have been esti
mated at worth not less than $1,000,000, and
many women have been drawn to Terry's
theater to aee thia part of the show alona.
The actreaa wear a gausy costume which
Is simply ablase and fairly scintillate with
dlamonda. A pearl necklace which she
wear around her neck has been estimated
aa worth $12,000 alone. On her head ahe
weara a diamond crown worth $75,000, while
her bodice la covered with diamond em
broidery. Her shoulder are resplendent
with clusters of diamonds. Patterns are
picked out In diamonds all over her some
what diaphanous Venus costume, and a
six-inch diamond girdle encircles her walat.
Even her shoe have diamond buckles.
while every finger display a gem of das
sling splendor.
Miss Ward takes great precautions to
guard her jewela. which, each night, are
brought to the theater by special guards.
After each performance they are taken
away and deposited In a strong vault.
AMERICAN DRAMA I.f LOXDOX
riaaa of the Maaaaer for the 8 a ai
mer teaaoa.
LONDON, May $0. (Special Correspond
ence.) According to the London managers,
the Franco-British exhibition la going to
ruin their business during the summer and
falL Few of the play houses here close In
the warm montha, aa in the United States,
aad June and July are about the moat Im
portant montha of the year to the Engllah
tnanagtr. Curiously enough, th American
manager with an ey on London la Jut
aa optimistic as hla English prototype la
peaelmiatlc. Any number of American ca
terers to the amusement-loving public ar
trying to get London play house for th
summer. In anticipation of a big ruah of
business.
In support of their optimism they point
to the fact that whereas at th outset the
St. Loula, th Parla and other big exposi
tion drew th crowd away from tha
theaters, especially from th theaters play
ing tha heavier aorta of playa. In th end
th Imraene crowd of people attracted
by th expositions more than compensated
tha theatrical manager for their early
loaaea.
Already, besides th theaters controlled
VIA
IT ZA
by Charles Frohman In London, we have
American playa at the Adelphl, the Lyric
and Terry's. Wagenhala and Kemper are
to produce "Paid In Full" at a Strand play
house and David Belaaco will make his
Initial London bow with David Warfield
In "The Music Master." Fred Whitney will
manage a succession of French playa at
the Shaftesbury theater. He has booked
the whole summer and part of the fall sea
son. ' Should Fannie Ward, who la playing In
"The Marriage of William Aahe," need a
further attraction to continue her aeason
at Terry's through the aummer, she has
on hand "Polly of the Circus," Margaret
Mayo's clever play, which has proved as
successful In the United States with the
youthful Mabel Taliaferro In the chief
rolo.
Speaking of American managers brings
me to the Waldorf theater and Lee Shu
bert's connection with that seemingly Ill
fated play house. The American manager
became lessee of the house about three
years ago, but has not up to date made a
single successful production there. Rates
and taxea mount up ao rapidly In thia
heavily burdened city that already Mr.
Shubert owes well over $5,000. H soma
time ago returned to the United States
Baying that he would have nothing to do
with the "white elephant." The pro
prietor, tha Waldorf Hotel syndicate, do
not seem willing to take the American'
word for It and have just secured an Irj
Junction In court forbidding him to inter
fere with the property during the re
mainder of his tenancy a matter of
eighteen years. It was at the Waldorf
theater that E. H. Sothern and Julia Mar
lowe played their flrat London engage
ment last year.
Unless there Is a further hitch In the
negotiations, the house will be taken over
by Messrs. Smith and Carpenter, the roar
agere who have leased the Lyceum, ta
vg tneaier associaiea wun me career oi ;
ir.e late Bir itenry irving. ana wno are
making a fortune by alternating Shake-
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Their plan Is to produce musloaJ comedy
.i. ii-.M-j ,v,.
already have mad preliminary arrange-
menu with Dion Clayton Calthrop for the
book of their first piece.
The Prlncees theater, formerly the home ,
of Keith's continuous audeville, In Lon-i
don, but which haa for years stocd empty
and to let, may shortly be reopened by
"Joe" Lyons as the home of strong mela- '
drsma. Lyons Is cue cf the most remark- j S
able men in England. He Is, of course, the
head of the Immerse catering businesa
which bears his name and which feeda
about eOO.uOO people a day. Besides his
120 restauranta for th poorer classes, scat
tered about London, he controls some of
the most swagger eating places. Including
the Trocadero, the Popular, the Throg
morton and. of late, the Gaiety. He con
trols the Coliseum, the largest theater in
London and bigger than anything In New
Tork excepting the Hippodrome. He Is a
successful author and painter whoae works
are not atrangers to the Academy walla.
He has been asked by the British govern
ment to help It raise th territorial army
which la to. take the place of the old vol
unteers, and hi lateat exploit I the finan
cing of a defunct hospital. He has not
neglected the future, either, for within a
year he will be s hotel proprietor. Hla
Strand hotel Is now going up on the alt
one occupied by the famous Exeter hall.-
That almost exclusively British institu
tion, the week-er-d, - tbrestens to be th
death of the Saturday matinee. Tet an
other Weat End theater, th Apollo, haa
fallen Into line, and, under the manage
ment of Ada Reeve, who Is producing a
musical version of W. J. Locke's "The
Palac of Puck" under the name of "But
terflies." will confine Itself to a mid-week
u
matinee. This makes the sixth Important
London playhouse that haa done away with
the Saturday afternoon performance, and,
aeemingly, it Is only a matter of time when
the others will follow suit.
Those theaters which still maintain the
eighth performance have to be content
with a veiy slim attendance, especially In
the higher priced aeata. In the galleries,
the pit and even the circle there will
always be a big Saturday afternoon demand
for seats, but the majority of the people
who can afford and are wiling to pay
$150 for a stall seat are apendlng their
Saturday afternoons In the country now
adays. "The College Widow," which had a four
week run at the Adelphl theater, has been
withdrawn. The manner in which the boys
at Atwater college In George Ada's farce,
"cut up didoes," so strange to the English
public, made a mild hit and might have
run on for another eight weeka or more
had not a disagreement arisen between
Henry W. Savage and Robert Courtneige,
hla Erllsh associate, and the proprietors
of the Adelphl theater. The latter wanted
the two managers to sign the American
comedy for a much longer time than th
associated managers were willing, and ao
all deala were declared off. A Fleet street
bard haa broken Into verse over the de
parture of the play. The reault runs like
this:
Why does the web-foot rube lament?
Why does the pin-head troan and sob?
Why la It that a furrow mars
The anguished forehead oi the so.uab?
What ails the gay, light-hearted soul
Who cuts up didoes yesterday?
Thia is the cause of all their woe;
'the "College Widow's' gone vaway.
V
We light the r.othir.g student's lamp.
But little aolace doe It bring.
Not e'en the Rockefeller Stunt
Can make our agony take wing.
Dull Melancholy reigna wnere once
We all wer 'cute and spry and gay.
Buck to tiie grass that'a tall (alas)
The "College Widow's ' gone away.
It was Mr. Savages original intention,
mR of cour,ei thal tne Georg, Adw
, humnT .-..o,.,,!.
to the
rr.l.h ihs.tur. rri In follow "The Col
lege. W idow with either Tne bultan oi
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Sulu" or "The County Chairman. That
plan is up In the air for the prettent. The
4 American manager 1c now in Paris in
i connection with his grand opera buslnets
In the United States, but expects to be
back In London again In a few weeks.
iCADI.NET MIMSTEn WHO WORKS
Snap for Raurlmaa, President
i-nallh Beard cf Kdacatton.
LONDON, May 3J. (Special.) Wa'ler
Runclman. the new preldtnt of the Beard
of Education, who haa Juat made Mi ap
pointment good by rewlnning hla sen In
Parliament at Dewsbury. has anything but
a soft snap ahead of him. His predecessor
at the post, th hard-hitting and agsr?slv
McKenna. who ha been promoted to tha
admiralty, left aa a heritage for hit tuc
cesscr many enmities, and in aj'.ceitf j ly
smoothing these v over the new mini iter
will be earning his $10.00 a year. Hla Uj-
gest task, of couise
wiil ce to euei-i soins
sort of a "compromise with honor" on
the education bill of th governn.ent, which
haa arouaed ao much opposition among
the clergy of th country.
With the exception of Winston Churchill,
Runclman la the youngest memotr of the
new liberal ministry. He was born In the
latter part of IS70. ao he Is not yet years
of age. Curiously enough, youthfulntsi la
not the only thing that .connects him with
the Irrepressible Winston. When the latter
aaa atlll a conservative he contested Old
ham In 189 agalnat Runciman ani the lat
ter won. Churchill did not have to wait
long for hla revenge, for In th following
year, at the famoua "khaki" election, he
turned tha tables on bis opponent and car
ried th seat by a majority of 2. The
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two men stood side by side watching the
counting on that occasion and 'Runclman
turned to Winston and said: "Whatever
happens I don't think the last has been
heard of either of us." Both men are good
fighters and how long the political duel
and the probable see-saw of victory and
defeat might have gone on It Is impossible
to say. The affair waa nipped tn the bud
soon after by the sensational conversion
of Churchill to liberalism.
Runciman la one of the most popular
members of Parliament. He la an excellent
speaker and one of the best campaigners
In the liberal party. Hia skill and wit at
repartee la widely known. One of his con
stituents recently attempted to "heckle"
him while he was making a speech on the
thorny question of disestablishment. In at
tempting to "take a fall" out of the new
minister the man began: "Now. sir. at this
moment I have a school In my eye "
Before he could say any more Runclman
Interrupted with: "No, pardon me; only
one pupil,'' and the reply ao successfully
turned the laugh on the heckler that he
Instantly subsided.
Runclman, beMde being a shrewd po'.ltl
cinn. Is a sharp business man. He comes
of a renowned family of ahlp owners, the
members of which are "big guns" In New-caatle-on-Tyne
and that neighborhood. His
father and grandfather r owners of the
great "Moor" steamship line and Walter
Runclman himself Is managing r" lrector of
the company, which now controls the busi
ness. Just how much he Is worth I not
known, but It is safe to cay that he Is
several times a mUl.'onalre n dollars, so
you see h doesn't have to He aaaV mhti
thinking about the comparative mea;erneai
of hi official pay aa head of the Board of
Education.
In the Campbell-Eannerman nVnla'rv
Runclman B'aa first parliamentary sc:e
tary to the local government board, ever
which John Burna pierlded and still rulej,
and afterward parliamentary recreiary to
the treasury, of which Mr. Haldane, the
lawyer and philosopher and erperlal friend
of H. H. Asqulth, the new prime minister.
Is the head. It is said to be due to the
enthusiastic recommondatlons of both of
his former chiefs that Runclman was ad
vanced to full cabinet rank when the work
of reconstruction was made necessary by
the death of the late premier.
Aeroplane Travel !V early a Mile.
GHENT, Belgium. May JO. Henry Far
nam. the English aeroplanlst, today cov
ered 1,2-11 metera, or t,C33 feet In his aero
plane with two men on board. Ilia com
panion was M. Archdfacon. The feat was
performed In a dead calm. By this per
formance Mr. Farnam wlna th bet ma do
with M. Charron In March of this year.
M. Charron held that an aeroplane would
not be constructed within a year capable
of carrying two persons, one of them not
weighing less than !32 pounds, a distance
of l.oto meters. The odds were I to I
, sgainst Farnam. He wins $l,:oo.
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apprehension. There is no necessity for the reproduction of life to be
tif.er very painful or dangerous. The use of Mother's Friend pre
pares the Bystem for the coming event, and it is passed without any
danger. This remedy is applied externally, and has carried thousand
of women through the crisis TT,7T,
with htit little aiiffprinir I If
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