BLANCHE WALSH ILL
IN LOCAL HOSPITAL.
ENLARGED LIVER FORCES ACT-
RESS TO CANCEL DATES.
Will Resume Tour in Kansas city
February 28 -- Star Who Has
Been Seen in Many
Famous Roles.
MISS BLANCHE WALSH.
Blanche Walsh, one of the most prominent of feminine stars on the American stage, is ill at the University hospital and her engagements for the next two weeks, which includes her St. Louis date, have been cancelled.
Miss Walsh, according to the hospital physicians, is suffering from an enlarged liver, and while she intended to come to Kansas City and simply rest for a week, her physician advised her to go to a hospital and remain there for treatment.
The hospital authorities say that Miss Walsh's condition shows no dangerous symptoms, and while an operation may be necessary, it is not probable that surgery will be resorted to.
Miss Walsh came to Kansas City from Joplin on a special train yesterday morning. She first went to the Baltimore hotel, intending to stay there, but the physician advised her to go to the hospital, where her recovery would be more rapid and more certain.
Hugh C. Brady, Miss Walsh's acting manager, said last night:
"Miss Walsh's tour is booked up until the middle of June. With the exception of these two weeks the remaining dates of her tour will be filled. She will resume her work in Kansas City, opening at the Willis Wood for a week's engagement February 28.
"Miss Walsh has been under a severe strain all season, and while her ailment is one of long standing, she has never before taken it seriously. It was only yesterday, when we were within hailing distance of Kansas City, that she decided to cancel two weeks' time, come here and consult a physician and take the rest which she thought she needed.
"She was greatly disturbed over the erroneous report that she intended to end her tour in this city. Such a thing was never contemplated."
Miss Walsh has appeared in many roles in Kansas City theaters. Her earlier successes here, of course, were in such famous plays as "Cleopatra," "Gismonda," "Fedora," "Tosea" and other great plays, in the star parts which she succeeded Fanny Davenport.
