Show L r i 4 f fa frS a u t r rS I r J I r r l Ii Iii I i r f 1 r r r C I A o i i r rr fi i I r rr A r 4 r f wW 0 0 d do o r e lI es Secrets of the Famous London Fascinating Saunders was haunted by disturb disturb- 4 Jug ing VISIons visions of the Sultan and two or three or-three three ii J j of dressing Joing his courtiers room t ma and pouncing dragging upon her her off 11 in t to her herTh a Th Theater e t er R Revealed eve a 1 e d b by y t the h hn e Man n Ii WI Who 10 r cruel captivity f Guarded Its Stage Door for More Moret jt i u t g j jJ jf J f Than Thirty 0 L f i ia a Y a o IJ i r z 6 ear v art F Fr t Z J j fk I t r t l J Jv Aj 0 r I r h Jj aDiv Div 1 7 y t a Ij I r- r ft I 1 ii 1 1 y N ll if t b br 1 alb r I Iy i ai 1 1 11 1 f IF l hr Li s I-s I 1 K v f 1 t s b by Ii y r 1 2 1 P F d Ih y V-y I a- a ati ti r ry vi v r ff W fili f If II ti Ii f i t fil 4 1 t r r r r t v wf t i t r i r h Ar si I h tau au auf f jy io vY r t i I r Fi Fio o 4 r ra ak 5 t 4 b 4 fJ f t tJ J s CR c o iT 0 j 11 vc i q qt r 1 1 1 i t k 1 r P t J Jt Y 1 v d a j y T r t i I Af J r li rt 1 I I i w r p f RT p I N 4 j l i t 8 I t 1 a S 0 rry P f y G J l k kr r 1 f 4 r L 11 r 1 s sf N r I l r P 4 J r Qa ff St 5 r rr Jy yet a l l I Ij I fr y l C o K t v v vL v J l 1 r r i J 1 Ii fl I f t- t tI t r HE dusky dusty Sultan who rules over THE THI T the island of Zanzibar off the th eastern eastern coast of Africa Is a mon monarch monarch monarch arch who is i a more accustomed to baying his own way war in everything than a great many more civilized rulers When he sees tees a young oung woman who takes hIs fancy end and who ho h hi he would male make a II pleasing addition to hIS harem he merely nods hIs bis head bead to two or three of his husky busky courtiers and oil off they start in pursuit Quite frequently the lady is delighted wIth the honor conferred on her and gladly yields herself to the Sultans Sultan's bId bId- bidding bid bidding ding But if it she makes objections she is overcome by force and carried off to the harem Just the same In Zanzibar this tins is considered quite the proper thing But But as the Sultan once found out to his amazement there are countries v where here even the mIghty ruler of Zanzibar is not allowed to take possessIon of any woman oman who catches his eye and England is ie one of them The Sultan was paying a visit to Lon Lun- Lundon London don Lun-don don by special invitation of the government which holds a protectorate It over the tho island of Zanzibar It was when the tha Gaiety Theater was in the heyday of its fame and the he Suit Suits s 's English hosts knowing his fondness for feminine beauty thought that an eve eve- evening evening eve evening ning there must mast m st be one of the first things provided for his entertainment So the royal box was reserved for him and there when the curtain rose the Sultan and his suite were seated in bar bar- barbaric barbaric barbaric baric pomp and splendor As the Sultan surveyed ed the throng of beauties that filled the stage his black blackeyes ees eyes sparkled with delight and he gave little grunts of satisfaction There were girls short and tall slender tall slender and plump wonderfully lovely of face and shapely of figure and all singing and dancing more bewitchingly than he had ewer er thought human beings could The African potentate carefully sur sur- surveyed surveyed surveyed one after the other of them weigh weigh- weighing inc in ing their charms with the appraising Judgment of a connoisseur Buthen But when hen hIs e eyes eves es reached Madge Saunders i ione one of the most admired members of the Gaiety company they lost every de- de desire desire de 1 sire to travel any further She Sho was as the Sultan later confessed r to some of f his friends in the English Office the most moat beautiful crea crea- creature creature creature ture he had ever seen In fact he had never expected to behold such an alluring alluring jag ing bit of femininity outside of the Ma- Ma Ma heaven to white he looks forward Turning to th the interpreter who sat at athis his bis side the Sultan asked to have the name of the beauty who appealed to him himL so strongly pointed out in the program Then he called his imposing chief of staff daff who stood at attention just behind the royal chair indicated to him the tho name of Madge Saunders a afew afew afew few whispered words sent tent the official hurrying out of ot the royal roal box A minute or so later the chief of stag staff appeared before James Jupp for more than thirty years the keeper of the Gaiety's stage door and what happened then is told by Mr Jupp in m the interest Interest- I f o tr ing book of reminiscences which he I has as recently published The Sultans Sultan's chief of staff sa say sai s Mr Jupp told me that he wished to corn cons ey eya eya eya a message from the Sultan to Miss Saunders Saunders ders ders acquainting her of his maJesty's condescension and pleasure I said I would send down to the ar- ar artiste ar artiste tiste and ask If it she would see sec him This surprised him greatly and he told me that it was the tile Sultans Sultan's command that he deliver the message to the young lad lady In person and that it must be obeyed Instantly I am sure that if I had been in Zanzibar Zanzibar r bar I would have been taken J out and executed for daring to interfere with the Sultans Sultan's plans but feeling secure in the Gaiety Gaiety I told the official very cry ory firmly firmly that I v was as in o 0 m man m a n d and he must must wait ait until Ire Ire- I recen re- re reS S cen ceJ cd e an an answer an er from f t g gt t Madge Saunders f JOS X The reply came to j the effect that she regretted regretted re- re regretted that she he could not e the Sultan as all her ter spare i spare time would be fully taken u u- u L r that evening That was as enough for me and having received m my cue I soon con con- cons con s the Sultans Sultan's pleni pleni- plenipotentiary plenipotentiary plenipotentiary that his request kar karwas was was hopeless He Ho pleaded and argued in m hl his broken English for a along along along long time but of course thel these e 1 was as no moving mo me When finall finally he started back to re- re report report port tc-port port to his master the failure of hs errand he evidently was in great foal f ar arof of the royal wrath rath and as it turned out there was good ground for his Ins fear eaf The scene that followed his Ills return I to the royal box would have been considered too absurd and ludicrous for or e even esen en the wildest burlesque The Sultan when hen he heard of MIss Saunders's answer became furious Stamping out of the box to the great annoyance of the rest of the audience he went down to the vestibule and loudly demanded to see gee the manager of the theater Mr Dir Marshall He said that lie he had decided to buy MIss Saunders and be he insisted that she sho must be bo delivered up to him as soon coon as the performance was over I It took a 11 long time to make him un- un understand understand un understand that such purchases as he pro pro- proposed proposed proposed posed were not allowed ed in England or any other civilized country Newer Never be- be before be before fore had be he been denied the possessIon oi any woman who ho pleased him lie He thought it a sad reflection on Ingland's England's boasted hospitality that Madge Saunders was as not brought to the royal box bol the in- in instant in instant stant he commanded her pres presence presence there The Sultan and the members member of his hll hi a I Ir r J T- T i r I rf 1 I L l J The Maharajah of COOC Cooch s Behar and hi wife On his o frequent visits to London h he thought nothing of pre pre- 6 a limousine or a diamond tiara or a corm corm- to toM tot t the M Jn k kr Gaiety r so who hap hap- happened a t o suit his fancy N a tl r t r M A jA f k ks r x s a ar h y s e eJ I J f fr r ltd f we t t 4 i it a al at afi k yS yI I S l t fi N yN y k 4 I f y r y ej y yf r f RP W f h r sr- sr s y d e ed f ft rs t s r suite left the theater before the perform perform- performance performance performance ance was over threatening all aU sorts of things As a n I result of these threats the theater management and Miss Saunders's frIends saw to ft It t that she was as carefully guarded as us long as the visitors Iron fron zanzibar Zanzibar remained in m England Ingland Of or course coure Miss Saunders was greatly disturbed bed when she learned of the Sul- Sul Sultan's Sultan's Sul Sultan's tans tan's infatuation and II how ow he had insist insist- insisted insisted ed cd on taking immediate possession of her quite regardless of her wishes in m the matter maUer Until he bed bad left the country she was Vas haunted by visions of the Sultan and ard two or three of his kis courtiers pouncing upon her in her dressing room and drag drag- dragging drug ging ging her off to a cruel captivity She drew a 11 breath of relief when she knew that the Sultan and his suite were at last on board a steamer bound for Africa But perhaps it tickled her v san san- sanity un unity ity a little to know that the departing monarch carried with him as the most prized souvenirs of his stay in London e eel el y photograph he could buy or beg bel bee of the Gaiety beauty who had appealed to him so BO irresistibly For tor several years years ears Madge Saunders was one of the greatest favorites the Gaiety's stage ever displaced ed to an ad- ad admiring ad admiring miring public She scored a hit in ID a single night I ow as the tho wife of Leslie Henson rv J I f J f 1 1 A 1 4 the she figures inn in P a n smart circle of English society a aThe The singing voice and the charming per per- perr personality r which used 10 0 o delight the Gaiety's patrons so much are displayed only in m th thein the tho l lm m in most o 0 s t fashionable drawing rooms or atthe at the benefits which so- so socIety so c clety gives for tor chari char charities charities a ties W SS Luckily for the thet Gaiety beauties few o the loyalties royalties who s London proved as admirers as the Sultan of Zanzibar Most of them were v e f e more inclined to obe obey the contentions com of English eJ cis ind some were ere e extraordinarily gener- gener generous oua ous in ID the gifts SiftS they 18 lavished Ish d on the tho women ho who enhanced entranced them from behind the footlights One of the latter was the Maharaja aJa of Cooch Beh an immensely wealthy IndIan potentate who frequently London Sometimes lie he brought one of Ins his dusky wives with Ith him and sometimes not but whether hether he did 01 or not made no nc c e with hIs hia lively b interest in the Gaiety girls and the regal generosity of the gifts he lavished on those v who ho pleased him best The Maharaja of Cooch Behar says James Jupp in his reminiscence thought as little of presenting a n lady wIth a n limousine a diamond tiara or esen eHn a furnished villa in the country or orup orup orup up the TIer river TI er as I should of standing oi a doal ual uala a cup of tea tell I r mention Cooch Behar's name nome be- be because because be because cause on each of his Ins visits to Lon London on tome lome one would be the richer and hIS generosity was as not confined to ladies ladles This fabulously wealthy Indian prince pi was S one of the most moat generous men I have come across and those people who ho know nothing of theatrical life andal and al at always ways imagine that there must be an ul ulterior tenor motive behind every gift pitt would but need to know Inow Cooch Beha Behar r for a short hort time to realize that asa nis pI e w- w wS S tr r jwj 7 t-f t r j 0 r L y p pr pa pM pS r a M S 4 fA I r ApT PJ lt n Jf r 9 w Ml I W J M fA f ti k j jt t tk k tir r i P cy yc v t f v 1 0 1 1 l dC i f f o t r I I- I k kJ J Jit u r J f I t j Vr d J v If I f H Hv f J V Vl l were only the outcome of a generous nature Not all the men who became infatuated with Ith the Gaiety beauties wel e men men mel of or title Sometimes they were ere workingmen who ho had to struggle hard for the shillings that gave gasp them the op- op opportunity op of feasting their eyes night after night on the of their then their choice Quite different from the ordinary run of stage door Johnnies Johnme was the man nun who earned his jiving by bU buying and selling waste aste paper and who spent every e ery shil shil- shilling shilling ling he could on a II gallery IY seat lion which h he he could view stew lew the inns chums of Violet t Lloyd elY E night sais sas James Jupp in recalling hi hn experiences as keeper of the Gaiety's stage stae door this mean man take up a just outside outside- the outside the stage door and wait alt v ait for Miss Lloyd Llod to e arrise When she approached Ie he he would woud go down ms his knees and sixth hands sped clasped liS as if in prayer reverently re follow her herI I his eyes eves ees As As soon as 1 Miss lIss Lloyd hid h p pared p-ared ared through the stage door dool he lie would go straight to the gallery and pay hu his This nightly procedure e wu was remarked upon and the attendants in III inthe inthe the gallery kept a sharp eye tye on the stranger The fellow would always have II a newspaper with him which v he perused through the show but the moment Violet Lloyd Llo came came on the stage down n went the paper and he would watch atch herlth her with rapture On On n her hel exit up went the paper again until This happened at every performance and after a few nights of it the gin girl became rather tiers tiers- ous ous although the man did not obtrude himself in any way Vay I just mentioned the matter hatter to a de- de de detective e friend at the Bow Street Police Station and the next night a couple of detectives es cam came along and watched limos his rites of silent adoration and ami then pay his shilling as usuaL u r C r r I t It i Iti v C 1 it t i- i lit t V Madge Made i b i Saunders rs J Saunders 4 t the h he e Gaiety ay hA yr ay 1 b t v favorite whom It f the Sultan c of f f toy j f Zanzibar wanted to a S Stake take home with him and andy make queen of his harem A f They followed follo him after the show was over and reported to me the next day that they had found out who and hens he was ns and whore where ho he lived They were ere satisfied that although humble ho he hov as was as quite respectable One of the detectives gave gale him h m a hint that his behavior was ns rather disconcert disconcert- disconcerting disconcerting ing to Miss Lloyd and it was as noticed that from Irons that night he took up a position pus pus- position tion on the opposite side of the street but from where he still stall commanded a 3 full view slew lew of the stage d door door ol All through the long run of The Shop Gu Omit Gill I he kept up tills tab pi procedure and paid his shilling for the gallery Y smith Ith unfailing regularity until Miss bliss Lloyd went lay away with one of tic t t c pal Gaiety touring companies for tor the ope mg Ing night ofa of a n new show how a at t Manch t tar r When she arrived armed at the tie the Ml Blanchester stage door doo she found round her de waste aste waste paper paper man standing ors oi Ol the opposite side of the little back street Later on cis the man l to ta London and told James Jupp 1 J ow w hen h lie knew Violet Lloyd Lloid Llo d das way was to go on tour he had spent all his savings in follow mP in lies liei from one ong town ton to n to another When his hi money was a exhausted ted lIe he had hod Seen been for foxed to ti tJ am back bach from m rm to Lon London don sleeping under hedges it st t night and ant picking up a bit of work lork here und and there thereto to get sufficient food to keep him hini going coins lie told as me nil gals avs aS aSIr Mr Ir Jupp that when hen he had saved up n a little money ho he 1 0 wo howo ld ld 1 follow MISI MIS Lloyd aJOU until ho homed med cled I I told Miss Lloyd of this con er cons ersa tion conversation and kindhearted as |