Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-10
MAUDE STUART.


Sad Death of Texas Girl Actress in
Now York.
Maude Stuart has many friends in Sher.
man and elsewhere in Texas, and the de.
tails of her death will ne received with
sorrow, The following is taken from the
st. Louis paper
NEW YORK, April 7.-Maude Stuart the
actress, died at the fiat, No. 2l9 West
Fortieth street, either Saturday or Sun
day last. The doubt is rendered neces-
sary by the efforts that have been made
TO keep the knowledge OF her demise
from the newspapers. Until to-day no
public announcement of it has been
made. 1t has been pleaded in extern
uation OF this secrecy that char
ity for the dead justified It.,
but under that sacred mantle
1t would seem as ii man had wished TO
hide. Miss Stuart was twenty-one years
old, aud unmarried. She died of py9mie,
following puerperal fever, the direct re-
suit of confinement She passed away
In the arms of friend, in a little room
on the top floor OF the Fortleth street fat.
Frederick De Belleyille, an actor, whose
life has been a romance, is the RESPONSE
BILE occupant of the fiat. Next door to
him, In modest rooms, on the top story
OF the fiat No. 2l7 sturdy Dan Lesson of
Wallack's lives. The ianitor of both
these flats did not know Maude Stuart.
He had heard that Mrs. De Belleville had
died, yet Maude Stuart was not, and
never could have been, Mrs. De Belle
wife. There were already three Mrs. DE
Belleyilles alive. Maude Stuart's
right name was Maude May Grubbs. She
was an Indiana girl, who came of an ex :
cellent family and was brought up In
Indianapolis. She was born in May 1864.
At sixteen she was on the stage. Before
she was seventeen she had played juliet
as one OF the five at Atkins Lawrence's
benefit in philadelphia. She began TO be
better known after that, and soon went
into the Madison Square theater forces.
Dan Froham secured her the role of Clara
in the original Hazel Kirke company, and
later she created the role OF the blind girl
In Young Mrs. Winthrop. She remained
at the Madison Square until the change
in management there, when she
left. She had been q favor
tie Of the Frohmans, and once 1t had been
whispered that she would, perhaps, marry
Dan Frohman some day; but the engage
ment, If 1t ever existed, was never pub
lcly announced, After her Madison
Square work she did what is profession
ally called 'jobbing' for time. Early
last fall, when BARLEY Campbell opened
the Fourteenth Street theater, she played
Nita in "paquita." De Belleville and she,
1t is believed, met for The first time in the
"Paquita" cast. One who was In the
company says they fell in love at first
sight. De Belleyilie is courtly, suaye
and handsome. All the polish of
Frenchman marks his bearing, and with
women he has ever been an admired IA
yorite
A THEATRICAL DON juan.
The story Of his life is a revelation IN
marital luxuriance, He was born In
France In 1919, and went ON the stage IN
his native land as lad Of a.. Ten years
later he made his English debut In Lon
don. In 1876, IN England, he married
Julia Josephs, an actress of that country.
He shortly went to Melbourne, where,
June 2s, 1879, he made his Australian
debut. The lady, who is now in this
country and is occasionally seen on the
stage as Mrs. Edith DE Belleyllle, claims
that ne married her In Australia during