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Show LILLIAN RUSSELL FRIGHTENED. Her Beautiful Trousers Threatened With Seizure by Sheriff. Emerging from her dressing-room and standing in the. wings of the Broadway theater in Brooklyn, Miss Lillian Rus-sell saw a man staring fixedly fix-edly at her. When she went out on the stage she could feel that basilisk glare almost piercing her back. When she retired from the view of the audience audi-ence there stood the same man with the burning glare. Miss Russell had worn the close-fitting trousers and the swell-hipped frock coat and the shiny silk hat before tens of thousands of eyes In the season of "Whoop-Dee-Doo" but never had she felt as uncomfortable uncomfor-table as under the piercing gaze of that fellow In the wings. "The most impertinent stage hand I ever saw," said she to Fields. "Stage hand?" groaned the comedian. "I wish that's all he was. He's a deputy sheriff and he's attached the costumes!" "Mine?" gasped Lillian. "Yours all." "Even even these?" and her beautiful beau-tiful eyes roamed over her lavunder-hued lavunder-hued nether garments. Fields bowed his head in silent grief. "Ow-wow-wow!" began John T. Kelly, but Weber cut him short with. "This ain't any time for dialect. I've dropped mine; you cut out yours." Then he hastily explained that a firm of theatrical advertising agents, who asserted that Weber & Fields owed them $52-1. had got an attachment from Justice Garretson on the ground that the comedians had been out of the State for six months and had carried certain property with them. While Weber was pouring out this tale there was hasty telephoning to J, C. Judge, counsel for the alleged creditors. "Oh, well, said Judge. "I don't wish to embarrass anybody." (An if Lillian hadn't been deeply embarrassed already.) al-ready.) "Tell the Sheriff he can wait until tomorrow." , The company heard the Joyful news. Miss Russell looked hercclf over; then stared haughtily at the deputy sheriff. "Don't wear them awny from the theater, please," said ho. and then departed de-parted hastily. The performance went on to the end. Next day Weber & Fields willingly paid the bill, which they said would have been settled at any time had It been presented to thorn, which It hadn't. But it was noticed no-ticed Miss Russell, when she went on the stage next night, looked apprehensively apprehen-sively over her shoulder and then at well, at those. |