| Show S1IACKCD TIE COUNT A Living Picture Rmii Against Csistcllatie to tIe Letters Sorrow I Sor-row Chicago March SIt was the hand of Trilby the 1492 Trilby now at the Columbia theatre 5n this city that i i smote the face of Count de Castellane and caused his noble blood to surge all over his outraged countenance Trilby says she slapped him and slapped him good and hard Trilby to be exact is Miss Gertrude Corey I and she poses as Trilby in a living picture in 1492 I It was not on account of I myself but I of my chum Ninette Burduins that I I struck him said Miss Corey She I I was always a delicate girl and somehow I j some-how I fell into the habit of defending I her at all times Miss Corey here stopped to explain that her friend is now at her home in Albany where she is said to be dying of consumption Continuing she said He made an offensive remark to her and it occurred in my rooms asked him to repeat it saying I I thought I did not quite understand him He repeated It end I well I have I a quick temper she said as if in extenuation ex-tenuation and quick as a flash I slapped him on his left cheek His face flushed scarlet and he aid shutting shut-ting his teeth tight I ou were a man Id kill you Play I am a man if you like I said but so long as you admit I am not a man you must take it for granted I am a lady These are my rooms if the people here do not suit there is the door What the count said was really < nol so bad but I think I took offense because be-cause he was a count You know we do not care much for that sort of thing here We may be Bohemians we dont claim to be anything but we are Americans and we are independent inde-pendent After I struck him he began looking for his hit And as he went out of the door Ninette threw after him a big bunch of pink and white roses three dozen of them which he had sent us In the afternoon We had had ri little dinner party as vre often do after the theatre But the dinner was over and the trouble was that the count thought he ought to have all the attention I suppose because he was a count and my friend did not care for him and turned her back to talk to one of thf other gentlemen After this occurred the men who were with him an at torhey and two Englishmen stayed and tried to chat 1 little with him as if nothing had happened then they left she concluded |
