Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1899 — How the Actress Offended. [ARTICLE]

How the Actress Offended.

A young actress, named Edith Davitt, performing at the Somossy Orpheum, In Vienna, has been fined 16 florins for appearing on the stage In a correct military uniform. This is contrary to law in Austria, the censor forbidding both military and ecclesiastical costumes, as well as all insignia or orders that are not purely fantastic. Now, In Germany the contrary custom prevails. When the police authorities allow the wearing of uniforms on the stage they have, by order of the Emperor, to be correct to a button.—The Stage.