Los Angeles Herald, Volume 33, Number 126, 4 February 1906 — "BILL," THE STAGE-STRUCK [ARTICLE]

"BILL," THE STAGE-STRUCK

Miss Violet Lloyd's Rag and Bone

Admirer Who Is Persistent but Unwelcome

Special Cabia to The Herald.

LONDON, Feb. 3.— For more than four years Miss Violet Lloyd, tha charming musical comedy actress, has been persecuted by the unwelcome attentions of a middle-aged, shabbilydressed person known only as "Bill." He 1b said to pursue the calling of a rag and bone merchant.

The climax was reached the othsr night, when "Bill" presented himself at the stage door of the I-iyrlc theater, where Miss Lloyd is playing, and saluted her in his usual husky way: "Here I am, my dear." Miss Lloyd is now becoming seriously alarmed, and no longer looks upon the affair as a Joke.

During the eighteen months that she played the chief soubrette parts at tho old Gaiety theater, "Bill" occupied a seat* in the gallery night after night, and waited at the stage door to watch the actress hurry to the waiting cab. How he obtains sufficient money to pursue Miss Lloyd all over the country remains a mystery. The following Is the only one of many letters from him which Miss Lloyd has kept: "My darling Violet— l do love you; I shall never forget over it the longest day I live, because I love you. Of course you know that the reason I wus two long years at the old Gaiety night after night, how do you suppose I would paid a shilling to see the Toredor and Madame Sherry, and come all the way down to Stratford, If t did not love you. Got no more to say at present, because a thousand words don't fill a bushel. From yours most loving, affectionate, loving, BILL. "P. S.— Started to walk to Birmlngham." iV : .