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Show SUPPER-KICKING EXPENSIVE STUNT Woman Sues Actress for $1999 for Hilling Her on Head. One thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine ninety-nine dollars Is a pretty big price to pay for kicking off a slipper, yet that is the amount which Helen Webber asks from the managers of the, Lyric theater In an action which she filed In the District court this) morning, in which H. B. 8cott and John Cort are named as defendants. The complaint alleges that the plaintiff. In company with John T. Ward, attended the performance of the "Jolly Girls" company com-pany at the theater on January 16. and that a member of the company, presumed to be a member of the female sex. threw a slipper Into tho audience with force, and that the slipper, thrown by a member mem-ber of the said company, struck the plaintiff plain-tiff on the head with sufficient force to drive a hairpin Into her head to a depth of half an Inch, and caused It to break off and the point to remain tntre in til extracted by a surgeon. The complaint does not state whether the hairpin was attached to the slipper or not. The plaintiff further alleges thst she has suffered great pain, and that she has been unable to perform her usual labors, for all of which she asks damages In the sum of $19. |