COUNTERFEITS.

Kumara Times, Issue 485, 16 April 1878, Page 3

COUNTERFEITS.

The New York'World says:—“ The handsome male actors who from time •captivate the women are called, in the ■vocabulary of the . stage behind the scenes, Well, it may as well be fchid that this sort of infatuation, which was so prevalent a couple ■of years ago, has subsided. True, the boarding-school girls who affect Edwin Booth; especially the Booth matinees, occasionally radke ninnies of themselves by some'' foolish manifestation towards that actor, but in the main the fashion has subsided. Being no longer fashionable, the fancy of the lovely girls for the handsome actors is held up as “wicked’’ and “shocking.” To tell the honest truth about it, when ■our Murray Hill beauties who adored Rignold and Montague in secret, and •Only admired, them in public, learned that these worthies had already surrendered .their hearts to otht-r females, they, were and em--phatfeally vexed, , Rignold hail a wife who claimed and received his whole heart. Montague was engaged to a woman who finally followed him from England and claimed' his heart. As she received no dividends on her Montague Stock, she sued' him for breach of promise, whereupon Murray Hill was shocked, and the dashing Montague was no longer worshipped. The girls who saw him in “ Forbidden Fruit,” in the scene where he sits on a low stool, rocking Ada Dyas on his knee, doubtless Wondered how they ever could have liked him, and even in the ■** Shaughran,” the old, fascination is lost. He is still a visitor to many, .of our fashionable mansions, but .the gift of eaintahip whioh he wore two years ago has worn ofij and only brass appears underneath. :