Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-03-27
TOLD ABOUT MARY ANDERSON
Worth Nearly Half a Million, Very
Economical and Not Fond of
Rich Food.

Letter from st. Louis: Mary Ander-
son is said to be worth nearly half a mil
lion dorllars in her own right; and this
does not entirely represent the savings
from her earnings in the ten years during
which she has been before the public, as
her stepfather, DIR. Hamilton Griffin,
during the first two or three years OF her
starring career, is understood TO have or
nearly equally divided the profits with
her. The doctors wealth is in Louisville
real estate, and just what its amount is
nobody can tell. as it seems to be mixed
in with legacy that the old gentleman
acquired, whose exact proportions are
not known. The arrangement that now
exists between Miss Mary and her step
father is secret, but the impression had
by those who think they ought to know
is that the doctor gets real nice and
healthy percentage forlending his dignity
and surgical attention to the show. The
percentage comes out of Mary's $500
| night, which she receives from Mr.. Henry
E. Abbey, her manager. During the
week Just closed at the Olympic the re-
ceipts have been about $4,000, out of
which Miss Anderson and her pa receive
81, 800 dollars, the Olympic management
twenty-five percent, the English COM
pany and English attaches $4,000, this
being the salary list of the organization,
and Mr.. Abbey takes the remainder of
the amount, and after paying railroad
fares, advertising, etc., and the interest |
on his indebtedness, pockets what is left |
as profit A young lady who can earn
$4,000 week, and has no extravagant |
habits that are not profitable, such as the
boarding of diamonds and the purchase
of bonds and real estate, should be an
attractive creature, and ought to have
string of admirers as long as an Eastern
potentate's list of titles. The Ohio girl
who has feet nineteen inches long and
seven inches wide, and whose father Of
fers $1,000 and a farm to the man who is
courageous enough to marry her, has
some hopes; then why should not our
Mary, with all her wealth and beauty
and symmetry of physique, who is just
now occupying plane away beyond the
reach of matrimony.
Mary Anderson's personal expenses as
she goes through the world are not very
heavy. She carries with her her step
father, her brother, and Miss Bartlett,
who is at once her maid and companion.
During her stay at the Southern she had :
! suit of four rooms on the fourth floor.
,hree sleeping rooms and one sitting
room, at cost of $25 per day When
MIR. Abbey's representative, Marcus May
II, was here two weeks ago, he engaged
our rooms for Miss Anderson on the par
or floor at rate of $32 per day. The
ay-out included the bridal chamber.
When DR.. Griffin reached here and
earned about the arrangement he got
'ery excited and said there was mis-
axe he did not want to pay $32 day.
utter considerable bartering, he consent
d TO 60 two stories higher and pay $25
day.
Miss Anderson confines herself almost
to these rooms. She has been c
ut to the Sherman's for reception. and Is
as been entertained by Mr.. John w.
Iorton; but apart from these social occa-
ions has left the hotel only for he, morn
1g walk, or for the theatre at night.
he rises daily at about o'clock and !.
reakfasts an hour or so later in her E
pom, where meals are served. During =
ne forenoon she takes long walk, attir. =
lg herself in plain dress, and is cover
i by gray ulster, small round hat. II
nd dark veil to cover her face. Thus
rrayed, and with her maid by her side -
ne makes tour of the principal streets, |
40 nobody ever suspects that the tall
edestrlan with long strides, whose gray II
ster Is her predominant feature, is Mary
nderson, the American tragedienne. ~,
he simple dress that she wears on her N
alks IS characteristic Of her taste and AZ
0f l.
1e wears the plainest cloth dresses at '-'
tunes, and hes no jewelry except that II
hch she wears on the stage. She Wi
ENDS her days IN reading useful books,
10 mas no inclination for novels or frothy p
erature. She is said to be we'll read in GA
history OF this and Europern coun- To
es, has PlutaHh's lives at her fingers pre-
ds, and is thoroughly posted about all
e characters and countries connected CL
tn the plays in which she appears.
e Dimes at three, and at five takes a w
P. Tins afternoon nap is part of the
ny routine of her profession. Actors
q actresses who study their own inter-
!, make a rule to sleep an hour and a i'o
II or two hours before going to the 9,
,atre. This little sleeprefreshes them, and
sends them on the stage with minds Or. ~ !,
e, and bodies vigorous and supple for s se.a
lr work. She is at the theatre at offfs
zen every evening. -
Ter food is of the plainest kind. The =
ks have no cause to complain of her. r.
has no taste for wines, and the onlv LII
ng she drinks is hot gin sling now
then, which she prefers to mix her.
1t is charged that she smokes cigar O.
s. and Mary has not yet denied the n