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Show ' END v pElNTg; .:S!KE23-' ' : SUrt EEESflN WSMSm . Mise linden Beckwith, the girt the beautiful fact, who sings from a ilt frame at tha Orpheum in appropri-. appropri-. ate costumes, created considerable stir j around thf theater this morning by fall-j fall-j ing across some t hairs in her dressing-! dressing-! rooom in what at first appeared to be a ' plain or ordinary dead faint. Investigation, Investi-gation, however, showed that the singer sing-er had been overcome by the fumes of chloroform. " " . ' It appears that the artist had given instruction s to her maid last night to be at the theater early this morning to freshen up one of the white velvet fao-ings fao-ings to'a stage eostume. In duo season Miss Beckwith walked from the Knuts ford to the . theater to find that her maid had not arrived. After waiting half an hour she undertook to clean the velvet herself, using for the purpose some of the contents of a six-ounce bottle bot-tle of chloroform. She left the cork out of the phial and applied the drug with a sponge. Naturally in a few minutes she felt drowsy, and in trying to reach the door of the dressing-room .she lost consciousness. . . Mrs, Bolby. wife of the kinodrome operator and lobby artist, happened to be in her husband 'a office when the heard the noise and promptly started to investigate. She at once took in the situation, and calling for her husband, both proceeded to render first aid in the form of cold water and ventilation. Misa Beckwith shortly afterward said a number of foolish things, but soon cam out of the infinenc of the anaesthetic. By this afternoon tha only bad effects aha felt was suffering with a alight headache. |