Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-07
A OF THE STAGE.
An Old Actor Tells Some Things
Which He Thinks should
Not be known.
Now York SUM-

New York SUM-
That's the kind of an article |
don't like to read. That is to say, it's
the sort Of information that l hate to
feel has gone out to thousands ofread-
ers this morning"
The speaker was an old actor, and
the end of his fore6nger rested on a
paragraph Of comment in yesterdays
Sun, on the fact that the Legion Of
Honor" company was disturbed by
angry charges of dishonor.
What | want TO get into your
mind" he continued, us the idea
that the illusions of the stage ought to
be preserved. | can remember when
an actor was kind of mysterious to the
general public; when a hero on the
stage was a hero off the stage, in the
estimation of his admirers. The mem
bers of the Legion Of Honor COM
pany shouldn't be known except as
the high toned personages they repres
sent in the drama. The newspapers
dont't you seeY-are giving away our
business. That isn't ju~dicious Of the
newspaper, do you think?
Another destroyer of stage is the
dissemination Of knowledge about the
personal relations of the performers.
The audiences over at Booths Theater
will enjoy the Two Orphans all the
more better if they don't know that
Miss Kate Claxton, the pursued blind
girl, is the wife of Charley Stevenson
who acts the pursuer; or that the
Marquis de Presles is at Ibis minute
being sued by his wife for divorce.
And wei at the Windsor, isn't it a
help to the acting Of John A. Stevens
as the insane hero and Miss Lottie
Church as the heroine that the sympa.
thetic crowd doesn't know they have
for years been comfortably married Z
Miss Fanny Davenport is the well
and hearty wife Of Edmund Price, the
manager of the company, and you
ought not to have that fact in your
mind when you see her dying as Ca
mile at the Fifth Avenue. Her sis
ter May, who plays Mamie, is to
marry Willie Seymour in a few weeks,
George Clarke, who is the Armand Of
the piece, by the way, isn't either the
brother or husband Of Miss Lillian
Uleves-C Clarke, who played with him
at Niblo's some time ago. She has
just been married to Richard +.
Foote, who was her lover in The
Farmers Daughter in Brooklyn last
week. To return to Camille good old
Charles Fisher, the M. Duval, is the
husband Of the Young Nichette. The
pretty Miss Lillian Russell, the Snake
Charmer of the Bjou, is the wife oil
Tony Pastors orchestra leader. Mime.
Janauschek is Mrs. Frederick Pilot.
Miss Rose Temple, one of the Pa
%tiences, has just got a divorce from Mr..
Jones. Miss Clara Morris is Mrs
Harriott. Louis James and Miss
Marie Wainwright, who we're the
lovers of Barrett's recent season
at the Fifth Avenue, are mar.
ried. Miss Victoria Vokes is Mrs.
Wright. The much photographed
Miss Branscombe is Mrs. Stuart. Miss
Agnes Booth, of the Madison Square
is Mrs. j. B. Booth, formerly Mrs
Perry. Mrs. Chanfrau bravely bill
herself as married at the Fourteenth
street. Fife Ellsler, the sweetest o
the Hazel Kirkes, is Mrs. Frank Yves
ton. Miss Fanny Morant, Of Days
is Mrs. Charles Smith. Mile. Mari,
Roze, OF the opera, is Mrs. Henry Ma
pleson, and RMlle. Cavallizzi, tn,
chief dancer at the Academy, is Mrs
Charles Mapleson.