The Sedalia Weekly Bazoo

A Bazoo Reporter's Pleasant Chat With Miss Florence Herbert.

She Loves the Queen City and is Favorably Impressed With its Citizens.

Something Regarding the Woman Who Has Never But Once Disappointed an Audience.

During the week just closed the Florence Herbert company, numbering seventeen people, under the management of Messrs. Whiteley & Selleck, have held forth at the opera house, appearing each evening and at yesterday afternoon's matinee. To the average Sedalia play-goer Miss Herbert was on Monday last an entire stranger, although many who have for years perused the columns of the dramatic papers knew that she ranked high in her chosen profession.

She opened to a good house Monday night, and from that time forward her success was assured, and the Bazoo is pleased to know that at the conclusion of the engagement the management have a nice little balance on the credit side of their books.

Yesterday afternoon a Bazoo scout called upon her at room at the hotel, and was pleasantly received by both herself and husband. While she is known upon the stage as Miss Herbert, she is, like most of the ladies of her profession, married—her husband being Mr. Fred. Selleck, one of the managers of the company.

Newspaper reporters, as a rule, are thoroughly detested by theatrical stars, and as soon as one presents his card and asks for the pleasure of an interview, some excuse is framed and the reporter is told that illness (which generally means a fit of the sulks) will not permit of the lady seeing the man of news, although she would be delighted to meet him at some future time.

In this particular Miss Herbert is an exception. If possible, she is more charming off than on the stage, and this is saying not a little. While she is not a really handsome woman, her face is one that commands admiration, and her charming manners make her companionship sought after by those with whom she becomes acquainted.