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Show TOO MANY POUNDS OF FLESH. Two Beauties of the Stage Want to Laugh, hut Not Grow Fat. A New York dispatch says : Corporeity in the two chief actresses of the two stage productions of the week is more discussed than their dramatic qualities. Lillian Russell's plumpness had almost become obesity when she last appeared in this city, to the almost complete destruction of her charm for the multitude of fellows who used to adulate her. When she and her husband, Solomon, engaged to put Pepita" on Uie Union Square stae it was agreed that she must lose flesh.She went into training about two months ao at 179 pounds and now she weighs 142 Long daily walks and a diet restricted almost al-most entirely to meat brought the desired change, and Lillian is admired again whatever may be thought of the opera! m tne other instance th gam flesh, and it has' not been gratified. Dion Boucicault hired the Star theatre to bring out his . new comedy, "The Jilt " and to put forward his bride, Louise lhorndyke, as the heroine. As this character char-acter was that of an English girl of aristocracy aris-tocracy and one of the scenes represented a formal dinner party, it was deemed imperative im-perative that she should wear a low and sleeveless dress, in accordance with En- SiiMf ln- .Ul8e ia almost Phenomenally Phenome-nally thin. Fle8h at iooo; und would be a good purchase for her if it could be bought; but it couldn't, and so she tried dieting. For a month she lived on farinaceous food and milk, incited her appetite with ch nchona, and' drank port wine at her meals. Tt ia qm , fi quired ..two or three pounds. Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, her pretty ace in the' play tops a ! ame that fdr scrawniness of arasPand exposure of bodily framework has hardly before been illustrated by footlights |