Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1883 — A Great Actress Handicapped. [ARTICLE]

A Great Actress Handicapped.

Bradford Mail. “Sad thing that about Fanny Davenport,” remarked a gentleman in a Bradford hotel, as he laid down the paper that he had been reading. “Why, how- is that?” queried half a dozen men, as they leaned forward expectantly; “what’s happened to Fannie?” “Why, the doctor has forbade her ever again playing “She Stoops to Conquer. 6 “No! Why?" again asked the crowd. “Simply because she can’t play it She is getting so fat she can’t stoop.” The Chinese never race horses. They prJe* other ioiius of swindling.