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Show Handsome Young Actor Surprised by a Kiss 1 4 uniifiViii'iV- j Ui umlihi ' ' ; l-dLJ Woman Mislakes Stock Star for Brolher and Embraces Em-braces Him. WITH liat and walking stick lost iu tho niclee, his arms pinioned in an embrace that lei'L him momentarily helpless and a most affectionate kiss implanted fairly on his check, William. J. Kelly, the New York actor, who arrived hero Inst week to star at tho Colonial, was a thoroughly surprised, very much Austral ed audi altogether al-together unwilling participant in a ' ' eister-incetiug-long-lost-brotliev' ' tableau ta-bleau in front; of tho Judgo building lalo Thursda' aftornoon that drew a hundred spectators iu almost as many seconds and left Mr. Kelly a greatly bewildered Thespian. "Henry!" " Brother!' ' "It's Emily, dear" And that was the lust Air. Kelly heard until ho managed to disengage hinisolf from tho embrace of Mrs. Emily Em-ily McTamlaunt of Des Moines, Iowa, and turn speechless and astonished to face a tall, pretty woman, who, upon removing her head from tho actor's shoulder, gave ono horrified gasp and stammered a profuse apology. Tho crowd, most of tlietn matinee girls who -were comiug from iho afternoon after-noon porformanco at tbo Colonial, had hemmod tlicm in and nmid the smiles that went round as it becaino apparent that a very pretty and attractive woman had mistaken Mr. Kolly for some- ono who was apparently justly entitled to her ombraces, the new leading lead-ing man got half an explanation of the mistalco and escaped to tho Utah. Tho woman, who told Mr. Kolly sho was Mrs. McTandaunt of Des Moines, caught but a glimpse of tho actor as he stepped from the curb at Main street and Broadway at 5 o'clock, beut on catching a car that would tako him to tho hotel, but it was enough to convince con-vince her that sho had seen her brother, Henry McTandaunt, who was to have mot her in Salt Lake wjstorday, Without With-out -waiting for a fuller view of his fuec, Mrs. McTandaunt promptly embraced em-braced Mr. Kelly and had roundly kifecd him before- sho discovered that the man who bore so striking a similarity similar-ity to her brother was decidedly someone some-one clso. , ""Really, it isn t worth a bit ol. i-om-mont," declared Mr. Kelly last night at his apartments in tho Hotel Utah, when asked rogardiug the incident. "People often make mistakes of that sort. 1 know T ba-vo time and. again mistaken pcoplo for others I knew and while J uovor exactly rushed up lo a young lady and kissed her tinder tho belief that T recognized her aa a relative, rela-tive, 1'vo made somo pretty funny mis-takcB mis-takcB myself. "T hope Mrs. McTandaunt will forget for-get it as quickly jis T shall. It was my first osculatory salutation iui Salt Lake, in anv event, aud I really hadn't expected ex-pected anything of tho sort until my appearance in 'Tho Liars' at tho Colonial Co-lonial next week, when I belicvo tho 'business' of the play requires that I salute, by a kiss, ono or two of tho ladies of tho troupe." |