The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-11-15
PoRTROUS AND HER ROMANCE.
:
kruger Comes this Week -ATurtha
Porteous and Her Money-Rag
Baby-General.

his inimitable sketch OF the photog-
rapher in Edouen's Dreams, the attrac-
ton which has been longer remembered
than any of the light musical burlesques
which have ever visited US. Kruger
part in the Skating Rink is that of a
tramp, who becomes enamored of a
farmers daughter, and who. when the
farmer seorns his suit, hires the old
mans barn and opens IN 1t skating
rink, by means of which he sails on TO
fortune. Two Of the acts occur on the
interior of the rink, and IN addition TO
the regular company, which includes
some professional skaters. several local
amateurs on wheels viii be induced to
go on in the carnival scene. We look
TO see Kruger receive warm welcome.
The leading Iadyin the Skating Rink
Company is Miss Murtha Porteous, who
originally appeared here. if we mistake
notin a concert with Amy Sherwin, and
who since that time has been
steadily mounting upward on the
professional ladder. Miss PcrteOus
name has been extensively handled OF
late by the eastern newspapers IN con-
y
have descended upon her. 1t was in
response to some inquiries made by
HERALD reporter eff Mr.. Reid, the ad-
vance agent, that that gentleman dis
closed the following letter from Mr..
Arthur, stage manager for the COM
pany, and by the way, the author OF
It's Cold Day When We Get Left. and
part adapter of the Bunch or Keys.
The publication of the letter will no
doubt get Mr.. Arthur into some par
ticalarly hot water with the lady, as
soon as they reach Salt Lake, but that
is no concern of ours. Mr.. Reid says
he can stand il, as he is always week
in advance of-and generally half
thousand miles away from -Mr. Arthur
and the company.
PEORIA, Ills, October IS, 1885.
4. Red. Esq: Agent Of he Jacques Kra-
ger Comedy Company;
Friend Rsid:-There Is an old proverb
which teaches US to ignore those infn
itesimal differences in nature which
makes the meat of one man, another
mans poison. This is exquisitely ap-
propos to the case Of Miss Porteous, the
fractions member of our company,
reason Of her recent good fortune (my
mlsfortune).
I am having any amount of trouble
with her on account Of her recent ac-
cession to wealth. At the time you left
Peoria, as YOU know, she promised TO
proceed with the company but has
again refused and I fear viii not appear
in Burlington, This is, as you know,
my true reason for wanting to cancel !
Burlington. OF course Miss P. is very !
attractive artist, and viii be great loss 1
to the company.
thought that her stated reason for !
wishing TO break her engagement was a
subterfuge, auntil she showed me the
translation from French papers, the fol-
lowing of which Is 3 correct copy land
ii she persists in disappointing our Bur-
hngton audience, [ wish the public TO
understand that it is no fault of mine.)
1t seems that about month ago, an
advertisement appeared IN the New
York Herald, which saw myself. 1t
read as follows: "Miss Murtha POr-
teous is earnestly requested to send her
address TO u. lie Paige. solicitor l3
Boulevard Des Italiens, Paris, imme-
diately'i
At the time the La Paige advertise
ment appeared in New York, we were I
playing our engagement in Buffalo. |
She was totally unconscious OF the TACT /
that she was being sought after by the !
foreign attorney, and IN blisSful lg- /
nOrance of the fact some pragmaucal |
"Son of q gun" had forwarded to her q |
COPY Of the New York Herald, which ! /
handed & her myself, little dreaming OF |
its contents. The newspapers got hold /
of it Immediately. In the meantime |
Gas Heckler. who Is ever on the alert /
for theatrical news OF a sensational ma /
ture, cabled Morney, their Paris cores
pondent. to interview lie Paige and in !
form him that he (Morney} was In pos /
session of Miss PorteOu's address, and /
would exchange it for any revelation /
concerning her. lie Paige eager 70 get /
the address, related substantially 20 the /
all attentive MOrneY the following re- !
markable story:
At the commencement of the Franco /
Prussian war there lived IN the peaceful !
province of Metz an OctOgenarlan by the |
name Of Prosper De POrteOus. His re- I
cord as chrOnicled in the books OF the |
department of war show him 70 have ]
been at the age OF twenty-five colonel /
n NapoIeOn's army. whose regiment /
was the last to retreat before Wellington I
at Waterloo, he escaped with broken |
arm and ssbTecut across the lolns from I
which be never fully recovered Col De /
PoTtsous was the grandson OF General
and Marquis De Porteous, and the issue I
Of which marriage was Annette Char !
lOtte De Porteous, who turns out to be
The mother o. Murtha POrieous. who at I
the time Of the German armv's invesl +
ture Of the stTongholdat Metz isdescrlbed /
by French papers as little golden
haired, sweet tempered gil of 8, whose
young life it did not seem q war could
so soon blight. But day came when the
holy calm Of peace was broken. War
followed and Bismarck's army slew the
tsther and grandsire The widowed
Duchess, bereft OF lands and titles fed
he country, and, with other eyiles,
found her way to England with her
little girl, and subsequently to Mauch
Chunk, Pa. where for years mother
ana child have awaited times slow de-
cree Of justice that should restore TO
Item their rights 70 vast lands and
Gtles. They have not waited in vain
through lie Paige they are informed
u1at upon receipt OF their signatures to