Identifier: theatricalcircus00je (find matches)
Title: Theatrical and circus life;
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Jennings, John Joseph, 1853-1909. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Theater Circus
Publisher: Chicago, Laird & Lee
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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every newspaper this side of the Atlantic are wasted
in making the silly announcement. The souvenir and
flower " rackets " both carry a certain weight, and the
lithograph that fills the eye as one gazes into a shoe
store window is a glory that can never fade from the
optic that has even for a second of time dwelt upon it.
Minnie Palmer, if all reports be true, came to the
front some time ago with a new bid for a free adver-
tisement. She entertained a Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal reporter with a display that must have made the
young man blush. " Our company has got into the
chemise fever," exclaimed Minnie, artlessly, and
were trying to see which can make the prettiest one.
I'll show them to you, and then, regardless of the
helpless mans blushes, she disemboweled a trunk and
buried him beneath an avalanche of snowy underwear.

FISHING FOR FREE PUFFS. 307

Their construction was minutely explained, and then
the conversation naturally led to flannels, which Min-
nie confidentially remarked could not be worn by
actors because of the risk of colds when compelled to
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ERNESTI ROSSI.

leave them off. The theme could scarcely be pursued
further than flannels, and the interview closed with
Minnies confession that she didn't like to be hugged
on the stage in warm weather. In winter, and unen-

308 PISHING FOR FREE PUFFS.

cumbered by flannels, the operation was not so dis-
tasteful. All of this may seem irrelevant, and having
very little to do with dramatic art, but it made a col-
umn for Minnie all the same.
The Abbott Kiss, invented by John T. McEnnis, a
reporter on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, but always
claimed by Jimmy Morrissey, who was her agent at
the time, traveled everywhere and was printed in
every newspaper from New York to San Francisco.
It had just about played out when in 1881, during the
prevalence of small-pox, Miss Abbott had herself vac-
cinated on one of her lower limbs, and again the papers
advertised her. She afterwards acted in the capacity
of interviewer for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and
was commissioned to get a talk out of Template:WAdelina Patti, but spent
all the time she was with the diva in kissing and hug-

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