MRS CAMPBELL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 154, 30 June 1903, Page 2

MRS CAMPBELL.

Poor "Mrs Pat" seems to be having her own troubles "on the road," says the "New York World."

In Montreal, where she. appeared a week or so ago, there is a btillboard censor. This dignitary, it is said, objected to a picture of Mrs Campbel a Paula Tanqueray because of the extremely decolette bodice. The dress was that black, spangled affair in whi.-h the English actress caught cold during her engagement at the Garden Theatre —the one with the shoulder straps; or didn't it have shoulder straps? One'H memory plays such tricks. At any rate, it was 1 he black spangle dress.

In the picture Mrs Pat was gazing off into vacancy as though seeing he finish. The censor saw more. H shivered once or twice, then ordere! date strips pasted across the front of all these pictures. Driving next day Mrs Pat was mnpli incensed to find her dead-wall presentments provided with chest protectors, and, it is reported, ordered all the posters taken down. The order, however, was not complied with. Th.c story of how Mrs Campbell left the Russell House in Detroit because Landlord Chittenden declined r,o obey her mandate to stop the playing of th •■ hotel orchestra has already been told.

But there wns an interesting sequei: W. J. Chitnmden, jun., son of the unyielding boniface, appeared at the box office of the theatre where Mrs Campbell was playing, a night or two later, and demanded that the orchestra be either suppressed or ordered to play something less heavy than the Wagnerian selections which Mrs Campbell thought suitable to "The Joy of Living." Mr Chittenden also demanded that Mrs Pats' "purp" be removed from the theatre, saying its barking behind the scenes could be heard in the box be occupied, and that it distressed him muchly. The' manager of the theatre wearily answered that he felt he aire; dy had all the troubles he could shoulder.