The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-25
Lolita TO WED A NOBLEMAN.
The Wee Actress Meets Manly Fellow, and
Accepts Fair Offer

New YoRK, March A-Little Lottie Crabtree,
the dramatic cocktail, seems to have had her
heart hooked at last, and this time the circum-
stances are even more romantic than the many
entirely fictitious engagements that she has
been every now and then credited with. It has
always been a matter of wonder that Lolita has
not been married long before this. She is a
pretty little thing full of life and vivacity, and,
what is not generally supposed, has fortune es-
timated at $500 0O0 This fortune has been Sc
eurely invested, mostly in real estate, by her
careful and entirely frugal mother, Mrs. Crab
tree.
The gentleman who has managed to gain con-
troll of the heart of the little stage pet is young
son of one of Hagland's titled families, who made
her acquaintance while she was playing in Lon
don. 1t will be remembered that on her first ap-
pearance she was Kissed by portion of the au-
dience. Her su;tor that night occupied box
and did his utmost to counteract the noise of the
rabble by applauding vociferously. He subse-
quently wrote a letter to Miss Lolita deploring
the brutality of her audience, and hoping
that she would not hold the whole
English people responsible for this wretched
exhibition of few. Night after night
he occupied the same box at the theater. When
Lolita returned here and opened in New York, he
was found once more In his familiar position in
the right hand box. Naturally enough the
friendship was renewed. AS she moved from
town to town. so did he move with her. When
he met the little actress he was always studi-
Ously polite and studiously reserved.
~xasis ~grcSts. excited the curiosity of
the little actress. as we'll as her mother
Indeed, the latter for the first time in her life,
advised her daughter to cultivate the assiduous
stranger. She went further, however,
than maiden should, and the Englishman re
manned cold impassive and non-committal as
ever, but always present. At length Mrs. Crab
trees curiosity got the best of her. She re
quested to meet the young Englishman one
night alter the performance in a Western city,
and opened the interview by asking him, point
blank, what his intentions were.
sMy intentions" said the stranger, ssare to
marry your daughter if she will have me-"
The answer almost took Mrs Crabtree's breath
away, but was pleasing to her from its very sud
1ennegs.
'Why have you not said so before2" she
gasped.
Because feared refusal" said he.
Thereupon she told him to plead his own suit,
that he would have her support in it, and that
she would be entirely satisfied with him as son.
an-law A few days after that the Englishman
popped the question to the little actress, and she
as quickly accepted, Then he made two condi-
tions: First, that she should leave the stage upon
her marriage, and second, that she should turn
over every penny of her fortune to her mother
or whomever else she pleased, so that it should
not be said that he married her for her money.
Under no circumstances" said he "shall
allow it to be said that took one pound of it"
The latter condition, of course, raised the
young suitor in both the eyes of Mrs Crabtree
and Lotta, but with the other there is some diff
sMlty, as already the actress has engaged herself
20 appear in several cities next season. It is be-
deved now that she will endeavor to cancel these
dates and retire from the stage for good, shortly
after the beginning of next season, in which case
she viii play her farewell engagement in Phia
lelphia, the city she loves best, because through
al the years she has been on the stage it has
Always given her the largest appreciation.