New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-10-13
ACTRESSES MARRIAGES.
Noteworthy Cases Recalled by George Goulds
Marriage.

Noteworthy Cases Recalled BY George Gould's
Marriage.
From the st. Louis Globe Democrat.
During the last century the tone OF
the stage was very low. and with the
single exception Of the Duke of Bolton,
who married Miss Fenton, thefamous
Polly Meachum, there were no mar
riages OF stage ladies into families of
prominence. But early in this century
i there came a revulsion OF this feeling
! of apathy on the part of titled gentle
men, and peers sought their wives on
! the stage- Early in the teens the
! twelfth Earl OF Derby, for whom the
Derby Stakes at Epson Downs were
named, married Miss Elizabeth # arren,
the daughter of an Irish apothecary,
an actress ofsurpassing beauty. There
/ was an cutlery from outraged $50
! ciety," and caricaturists lampooned
the earl numerically, notably
in that picture of DARBY and
JOAN" but the countess remained
i happy. Ten years after Miss Farren's
! marriage Miss Louisa Brunton, cele-
brated actress, became the wife Of the
first Earl of Craven, and the ancestress
of the present Earl. The next actress
! to make q brilliant marriage was Miss
! Harriet Mellon. whose origin was so
humble as that her mother was the
Irish wardrobe woman Of company
OF strolling comedians. She wandered
! about with her mother, picked up a
. smattering OF education in q rough
school, became an actress and was
F, introduced to no less person than
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, whose
Lydia Languish she was allowed to
J play in distinguished company, in
Guiding Mrs. Siddons and Charles
/ Kemble. She was not great &C
tress, but was very beautiful, and
she became one OF rhe glories of the
old Drury Lane. Thomas Coutts, a
wealthy banker married her,
gave her Holly Lodge, High
gate, for a residence, and finally,
died leaving her all his property
! to distribute among his children Aft
erwards, in 1927, she married the
ninth Duke of St. Adams. Miss Marie
Foote was an actress who became the
Countess of Harrington. Capt. Beck
er married the enhancing Miss O'Neill,
| and she became the mother of bar
onet.
The most celebrated marriage in
America of an actress with q man not
! in the profession was that of Miss
Julia Dean to DR.. Paul Hayne, of
Charleston, S. C. It is tradition of
the stage. Miss Dean was one of the
most famous women on the stage
thirty years ago. She acquired prom
inence as an actress before her 18th
year, and when only 16 made great
success as Julia in the "Hunchback, !"
at the old Bowery Theater, New York,
filling the house to Overlooking for the
then unusually long time OF thirteen
nights. Her marriage with DR.. Hayne
occurred in Louisville, KY, in 1855. He
; was man OF high social standing. being
a member OF one OF the first families of
the South, and a son OF Senator Hayne,
whose great debate with Webster is
one of the great episodes of American
; history. But while he was 'blooded"
he was poor, and the course of her
stage career was not interrupted by her
: marriage. He Travelled with her, but
they did not live happily together. He
was Jealous, and she unhappy under
his restraints. She made California
tour with the most triumphant sue
cess. in 1866 she was divorced from
Hayne by the Salt Lake City courts,
! and in 1867 was married to James
Cooper, of New York. She died in
1868, in New York City, and Hayne
! is now practicing medicine in San Fran
cisco.
Miss Jean Margaret Davenport was
one OF the early actresses OF distinc-
ton, and an interesting fact in con-
nection with her is that she was the
"Infant Phenomenon" whom Charles
Dickens invested with such extraor-
binary powers in the company of
! Crummelses in nicholas Nlckleby,"
her father being the original OF
"Crummels" also. She came to Ameri-
ca very young, and when only made
her debut as Little Pickle in "The
Spoiled Child" Afterward she per-
! formed the part OF Richard III. with
i s. WV SSAeOC' 0AAO AAAUA OuuCCO CCt11lA1lC
; to Americans, and her career was a
great one in America and Europe. In
1860 she was married to Col. Freder-
lex w. Lander, an officer in the Fed
eral army, and retired from the stage.
Her husband was killed in battle in
1862. In 1866 she made her
re-entree into public at Niblo's
Garden, in a play Of her own trans
lation, called "Mesalliance" She is
now in Washington living happily at
the age of 66. She is described as 'a
well-preserved woman, erect and full
in iorm.' Her cottage at Swampscott
was made out OF stable, and it is
said to be very interesting place for
a summer abode.
Anna Cora Mowatt was another
well known actress with welded expe-
rience off the stage. She was favor
tie in the forties, a tragedienne of rare
power. Her first husband, Mowatt,
was wealthy when she married him,
but he met with reverses and became