Show STAGE NASTINESS Our recent dispatches gave some idea of the status of the CameronDcbensaude scandal in theatrical circles in New York City and fully prepared the way for the inevitable sequel which now comes to follow it Miss Violet Cameron or Mrs Dcbensaude is an English actress playing play-ing leading roles in light English opera and she is an actress according to the opinions of the able critics of the New York press who would without her surroundings sur-roundings of social nastiness be not worth a third rate place in the line of people in her profession She is said to have lent her countenance to a vile story of marital infelicity in which an English nobleman is concerned all for the purpose of creating cre-ating a desire to see her on the stage and for that purpose she has put aside all that really adorns a woman on or off the stage and staked her professional success on the hazard of the die The die is cast and the following from the pen of Amos T Cummings who is managing editor of the New York Sun tells the story in his peculiarly brusque fashion No wonder that tho two notorious Englishwomen English-women now in New York feed and fan their dirty scandals with such ribald perseverance When I saw Violet Cameron the stage the other night I wondered how much money a week tho most liberal of American managers would give her without her mawkish advance agent Benzine and her brasscheeked and noble manager The woman is famous admired and successful and yet without the atmosphere of gallantry indecency and intrigue she would go unnoticed in the crowd It is the triumph of filth over respectability There are on the American Ameri-can stage dozens of light operasingers Marie Jnusen Lillie Grubb Lily Post Pauline Hall Lillian Russell Veruona Jar beau Geraldine Almar Fay Templeton Hello Archer Mao St Johnthe list is prac tioally endlesswho are brighter prettier I more graceful talented and entertaining thin this sluggish and awkward Englishwoman English-woman yetwho would have the temerity to put anyone of them forward as a star at the Casino The lesson is plain Filth pays Tho old saw Be virtuous and youll be happy as taught by our English visitors is Bolooose and youll be rich The Cameron woman bereft of the scurrility which has I made her fame lierot would be dear at 100 a week as it is she is worth thousands Mr Cummings wrote the foregoing before be-fore the reaction always sure to come hud set in and before the American people peo-ple had a chance to see of what material the woman was made in an artistic sense The following special from New York t tells the last chapter of the story The engagement of the LonsdaleViolet Cameron company the Casino can already be pronounced one of the greatest failures that has occurred in many seasons Tho I ticket speculators who invested heavily in 1 tickets for the first week are badly left Although last night was only the fourth of T the engagement tho speculators on the sidewalk T side-walk were glad to get anything for their f tickets Some tickets wero sold as low as 25 cents and at those figures there was only a I fair house present And so the CameronLonsdaleDuben saude filth has met a deserved setback II I I from the American public as without some endorsement in New York it would be suicidal to play the interior country I The Langtry scandal in which the name I of Gebhardt figured for a time was found to be a paying advertisement but the Lily will find in this season that the reaction has set in and that it will be overwhelmingly disastrous to her public career in America Human nature is i weak the world over and the weakest point in the male sex is its innate admiration admir-ation for the oppsite sex and in large cities like New York and London there are always men enough who have no legitimate homes with the safeguards of a mothers wifes or sisters good influences influ-ences to shield them who will be caught by the nastiness flaunted in this way but only once and then be ashamed of their weakness ever after That legitimate legiti-mate theatrical advertising pays is proved by Hills work with Margaret Mather and that the pandering to depraved tastes and the airing of tainted private lives to catch the public eye and purse do not payis equally proved by Cameron and Langtry The sad part of the business busi-ness is that the women are cajoled or driven into this glare of questionable publicity doubtless against their own wills by grasping managers who hold the dollar above the happiness of their dupes and for the good name of womanhood woman-hood in general it i is devoutly hoped that it is so The artist male or female who permit himsef or herself to be hoisted rocketlike on an unsavory reputation is sure to come down just as the stick does when the evanescent glare has palled the public eye |