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Show Star" or 'Leading Lady." New York Sim. What are the rights of star actreasas? This is a question at issue in the suit of Kosa Eytingj against Kate Claxton Stevenson and A. II. Forest. A star actress is apparently quite distinct from a leadiug lady, for Miss Eytiuge became most indiguant when one witness wit-ness testified that she was only a leading lead-ing lady. Another witness testified that the distinctive honors of a "Star" were to have a separate dressing room and to take "certain liberties not permitted per-mitted to minor members of tho company." com-pany." If to theso honorific distinc- j tious is added the right to have her name priuted on board bills in letters of whatever length she chooses, the definition of the rights of a star actress seems complete that is to an unsophisticated unso-phisticated person who remembers vaguely tho bigh handed snubs delivered' de-livered' right and left to managers by Sarah Bernhardt, and the deference genorally exacted by such h'gh personages person-ages from the rest of huraan beings, like that which a star might naturally, according to poets, expect from a moth. |