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Lillian Olcott is Dead. The Actress Was Sick At The Westminster All Last Week. She would not have her Parents in Brooklyn Told, and They were Notified Only when she was Unconscious and Dying. Ida Lillian Olcott, tho actress, who mode herdt'but In New York with Sardou's "Theodora," died In her apartments at the Westminster Hotel at 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Exposure during tho blizzard, she told Dr. E. E. Campbell, who attended lior, brought on a nertos ot trouble", which culminated Inst Wednesday in a serious attack of inflammation of the bowels, from which she died, Pluokwas her characteristic ns n putlont, and evon though the doctor warned her of the dancer last Friday, she seemed always hopeful. "Everything you giro mo, Doctor, scemstodo mo good," she snld, "nnd I don't wnnt fo alarm father nnd mother unnecessarily by sending for them. I know 1 slmll be bettor to-morrow." Bho was attended by n maid and a trained nurso. On Saturday night at 11 Dr. Campbell, know- Ins thnt the end was nenr, called a physician In consultation. Evon then Miss Olcott do- cllnod to send for her parents In Williamsburg, believing she would recover. She sank Into a comatose state soon after sunrise yesterday morning, and in that condition her father and mother, who had been notified nt last, found her about half an hour before her death. The body was removed ut B o'clock last night to her father's liouto, 072 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn. Miss Olcott went to the Westminster Hotel two weeks ago Inst Thursday and took n suite of rooms. Mr. W. G. Schenck, the proprietor of the Westminster, sold last night that Miss Olcott did not iipneur to be in good health when she cntra tlicte. She said she had business to attend to which mndo It Inconvenient for her to live at her home in Williamsburg. Lillian Olcott was born in Brooklyn, and was 27 years old. Her father Cornelius and one of her brothers are both practicing physicians in Williamsburg. In the spring of 1HH4. being then a member of the Williamsburg Dramatic League. she appeared ns Juliet, nnd created a favornblo Impression. She decided to adopt the stage us her profession, and on the rond wns also a success. She appeared in "Dark Days." n piny dramatized from Hugh Conway's novel nf thnt name. Burlng thin season she also appeared in the South and West in "Gnlntcn" and the "Lady of Lyons." She returned to Brooklyn in 1885, and in May of that year, with $30,000 of her own, she went to Paris, determined to purchase Theodora." Finding Sardou. she not only accomplished her purpose hut so pleased the rilayv. right thnt ho trained her himself in he pnrt Then she scoured Paris for costumes to suit the time ot tho play. Homo she found, others she had made to order. Thon the scenery must be pnlntcd oxnetly ns Bnrdou wanted It. When she had accomplished this and paid the hills she sailed for America, nnd went to work to complete the arrangements for the production of the play. The opening night at Mhlo's was Kept 13, 1886. and the play created a sensation. The receipts for the forty-eight performances of "Theodora" given at that time were $58,000. The expenses were heavy. Miss Olcott made a tour of the principal cities with the play, going as far west as Kansas City, where she closed Inst February. Some time before her season closed suit was begun against her by the Franco-American Agency, which disputed her right to Theodora. Roscoe Conkling was her lawyer, and the case is still pending. Always full of pluck, she used to tell her agents: "I have won other lawsuits, and I'll win this one. They can't take my play from me." Miss Olcott had golden hair and hazel eyes. It is feared by friends of the family her mother's health may be seriously affected by the blow. Miss Olcott was to have appeared in August 27 of this year in a new play at the Fourteenth Street Theatre.

• Ida Lillian Olcott (1861-1888)
• Roscoe Conkling (1829-1888)

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