The Mineral argus., 1884-08-28

The Numerous Marriage Experiences OF
Theatrical and OPERATE Professionals.


Theatrical and operatic Professionals.
New York Letter Alas how many
of them do it! 1 have known of scores
OF unhappy marriages among them.
Poor Bonfanti, for instance. who mar
ried the rich George Hoffman, million
aire son, only to see him die within a
few months when she had to go back to
dancing for a living. Laura Don, a
charming woman personally and a pos
tive genius, could not live with her
husband, McDonnough, and early left
him taking only the abbreviation of his
name. Charles Thorne and his first
wife could not live in peace, and I see
his second wife, after being a widow for
less than two years, has married
Mora, the photographer. Kate Clax-
ton lived with Dore Lyon only loag
enough to loose her bloom and sac
riicc the pleasure of youth, but
her second husband, Charley Stew
enson. seems to have restored both.
John I. Raymond and Marie Gordon
separated after several years of bicker-
ing each to find a congenial partner in
others Marie Wainwright made a first
unhappy adventure, but found a loving
husband in Louis James, her present
lord. Sheridan Shook is heppily mar
ried again to an Albany girl, while his
first spouse is the wife of A. M. Palmer.
whose divorced wife, is a grass widow
still. Mrs. Dion Boucicault was here,
a widow practically, and constantly at
law with the delinquent Dion. Jeffreys-
Lewis and her sister, Catherine, found
it impossible to exist with the compan-
ions they had first selected. Maud
Granger married and led a cat and dog
life for a few months only, with young
fellow named Alfred Folin, q nephew
OF Frank Leslie, but one whom
Frank Leslie's widow declines to take
care of. Fred. Boytoni is being divorced
from somebody out West, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Mourdaunt semi-occasion-
ally enliven the police courts with their
fights. Mrs. Townsend Percy had to
secure a divorce from Mr.. T. on account
of one Miss Lynn, and is now singing
in tights, in the chorus at the Casino
for a living, while Miss Lynn has taken
herself off to Europe leaving the gem
tie Percy behind. Minnie Conway and
Levy the cornetist, quarrelled about
Osmond Tearle, of Wallacks, it is not
yet announced whom Minnie and
Osmond will eventually quarrel about.
Laura LIE Clerq is happily married af-
ter waking up one fine morning to be
told by Josh Hart, the variety manager,
and the man who published the Morey
letter forgery, that he had gotten a
Utah divorce from her and intended to
marry one of the ballet girls at
Niblo's. Charley Brooke, the lawyer
of Hart, made two or three matrimonial
adventures in the theatrical line, but
one of them appears to have been har-
monious. Pearl Eytinge has tried half a
dozen companions, and yesterday the
World announced a new venture with
Joseph Watkins Yard, and this morn
ing | see she has been already swung
from that Yard arm. Fred De Belleville.
of the Union Square, has also had a
duplex experience of the same unfor-
tunate kind. Mary Mitchell, Maggie's
sister, and James W. Collier of the I'm
ion Square Theater, tried double har-
ness in vain, were peacefully unyoked,
and Mary found happines with J. W.
Albaugh, of the Albany Theater. Lii
liam Russell married and quarrelled and
Aoh dWdJ ALOh OIdldL1, bu6 MUSICAL con-
ductor of the Boston Park Thea
ter, but then she quarrels with every
body and runs away with almost every
body. The story of the dissensions of
z. G. Bangs and wife is too recent and
too malodorous to require recalling.
George H.. Butler had his faults and
Rose Eytinge her temper, and they
parted; Rose seeking refuge in another
union with Cyril Searle, and Butler
~contentedly going back to the Inebri-
ate Asylum. The men always choose
the better part in these separations.
Sidney Cowell tried matrimony for a
short and improbable season with
somebody-Tve forgotten whom and
she has too very probably, for it was
long ago. Lillian Cleves Clark has been
married so often that she never seems
to know by what name to.''bill" herself.
May Robson was married to an Eng
lish dude named Gore, but she long g
washed her hands of Gore and took to
eccentric comedy with better success.
Ada Gilman was unhappy. Mrs. Lean
der Z. Richardson she is no longer, and
Stuart has since been thrice mar
ried to Richardson. The ~latter's part
ner, @. A. Byrne, has likewise been
much welded, the last time to Alta
Merrill, formerly of John 7. Raymond's
company.
L could name a score more, but they
are not as interesting as the above.