The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-06-24
2O, S. c.. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE o. 1874

| zach act in IN entirely new gown
Conjugal disbarmony was the caus
Of her adopting the stage, in whio1
she has had extraordinary prosperity
though inter, uptcd by the untl
ing resolution Of Il Mr.. Tracy, ricl
lawyer OF Buffalo, to convert her int,
Mrs. Tracy. Ilo succeeded, an'
gain Agnes is buried in the limb o
matrimony. Mis-. John Wood, <wh,
use1 to be a vivaci,us and plea san
actress Of the burlcsquo SCHOOL, cur
ed all her admirers during her las
visit to this country having become
decidedly prosaic and coerSc-per
maps from long dwelling in England
Hardly any one ever heard OF Mr
John Wood, who was probably deac
and EN- balmed in his wife 3 name
She has recently taken now hus
band in the person Of Stephen b
Fisk, formerly of tho Herald, and
now editor Of the Hornet, il
Lon lon, where he has resided fol
four or five years.
ADELAIDE NELSON,
from the fact Of being rather comely
has bccn quito successful OH the
stage. She is Mrs. Lee Mr.. lee
enacting the part of travelling oom
paninn and lookor after baggage.
Ho is said to be good sort of fel
low, but so thoroughly English, and,
of course, so ignorant of America
that all sort Of jokes are played upon
him by native wags.
wonder why husbands of his or
der do not take the stage names OF
the consorts for the sake of prcserv-
ing their identity.
1t is said that an ndmirer Of Neil.
son, calling on her ono day, was iu-
troduced to Mr.. Lee, and failed to
form an exalted idea of the gentle
man.
The ncx. day the admircr made
another visit to the fair Adolnide,
and inquired, 'Who is that mutf,
Lce?'
'Oh, revcr mind him. was the
answer, she's nobody but my hus.
band.'
MAGGIE MITCHELL
is Mrs. Paddock, and tho mother of
two children. Still she plays Fapoh-
on and other girlish parts, andS is
likely to continue tC play them fof
the next twenty years. 1t is little
singular that a woman Of forty should
be enabled to represent sweet six
teen but she does so acceptabIy,
and ii hor audiences favor the illu.
sion nobody else has cause to COM
plain.
Mrs. Iloey, long the leading lady
at Wallack's, is the the'wife Of John
Hoey, the Superintendent of Adams
Express. Few women have been
more attached to their profession.
She was the first actress in the city
who made elaborate dressing q con.
spicuous feature. Sho spared no ex.
pense in her adcrnmcnt. Her salary
IS reported to have been five thousand
dollars n year aud she expended
more than twice as much. Olive
Logan was for some time tho wife of
ilcnry a. Delillc; but they grew
heartily tired Of each other and they
had no difficulty in living apart ,
Mrs Delille that was, waited until
Writ Sykes, who had long been her
puifer-goncral, could be legally. re.
leased from his wife and children,
when she cspoused him and 80 con.
fused tho nomenclature Of the fami.
ly that it is impossible to tell wheth.
er she is Mrs. Writ Sykes or ho Mr.
Olive Logan. The general result is
that the majority of actresses d.. who
are welded to outside barbarians
have brief matrimonial engage cnts
and then return to the greenroom
with new sense of freedom and an
nddod love for the stage. .rr}