The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-01-18
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lhS Will Retire from the stage for 4 Year a
The Close Of This Season.
Philadelphia North Am1rIeaH.
Miss Mary Anderson, the actress, sanl
exhausted into \ chair in her o at the
Continental after the rehearsal yesterday
afternoon. The trip from New York added
to the other tstigulng work Of the day
made rest not only grateful, but uecss.
safy, Miss Anderson has been workinl
80 hard that the strain will o o tell on
her unleaS she seeks repose for a while.
she begins to realize this fact herself, but
aho Loves the stage more than even her
physical and mental comfort.
my present tour Closes in May" she
! and then Shall take 3 good, long
DO o you contemplate returning to Eng
my mother IL there still, and l shall 90
over next summer, but only for two OF
three weeks"
And on your return to America"
u shall retire from the stage for twelve
months, perhaps eighteen, and try to re-
Cuperate. My work ia wearing me out,
right"
"There have been a great many rumora
about your rebuke to the Prince Of Wales,
What were the facts Of the AFFAIR."
neither rebuked the Prince OF Wales
nor did he give me occasion to do So"
"Then OF course, the Princess did not
have to make amends for her husbands
ConduCtW
II will explain the whole matter to YOU.
| Was introduced to the Prince during my
hrAt week In London. A week later
the Prince and Princess occupied a box at
the theatre, aud Is they we're leaving BY
the private corridor l happened to be 60
ing TO my dressing room. The Prince In
troduced me to the Princess, and present.
ed me with q bouquet, This is the only
manner In which the name OF the Prince
could have been connected with the ru-
NOR you speak Of. Later in the season
my mother and l were invited to dinner
by the Baron RothsChild. Besides the
hoAt the dinner party was to consist OF
the Prince OF Wales, the Count Gleichin,
for whom l was then sitting for = ~statuette,
my mother, another lady and myself,
But my mother became i'll, and, as l could
not with propriety 90 alone, We declined
the invitation. This gave rise 10 the
h~ighly'colored newspaper sensations that
followed. l had neither cause nor desire
to rebuke the Prince"
ut was also announced that you in
tended to leave the stage for the convent"
~ mover thought Of such a thing"
Glow did that rumor come about?"
I'm a very l~aughable way. Anewspaper
paragraph stated that | was to be married
to Lord COleridge. 1t was so ridiculous
and uniounded q statement that / did not
take the trouble to deny II, but Lord
Coleridge publicly pronounced 1t a false
hood. / remarked at the time that | was
more likely to entera convent than marry,
The newspapers at once began to give
accounts Of my intention TO take
the veil, and even took the trouble TO
the new to America.
Misc Anderson loaded back IN her chair
and seemed prepared to deny more things
than have been said about her. Her visit.
ors gave her the opportunity.
ut has boon said that you are to marry
q gentlemen who was your neighbor at
your old home at Long Branch"
THAT also 10 false. | have married the
stage and will remain true to 1t. am do.
voted to my art and have not given a
10 matrimony. My Life is de.
voted To tho drama"