The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-02
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Prominent Actors and Actresses IL
Domestic Roles.

Domestic Roles.
NEW York, March 31.-Since the days
Hd Thackerays "Fotheringay" a certain
amount of mystery regarding the domestic
Eatus of stage-performers has not been the
hast part of the glamour thrown around
ITEM in the eyes of their audience. l re-
member calling on William PerTts one of
lie handsomest leading men we have ever
had on our stage, and now at the head of
he London Adelphia Theater Company,
when he arrived in New York as lrving's
aading man on that great actors first visit to
this country. We had many mutual friends
and had heard much of him and his inter
eSting wife and family. One of the
first favOrs he asked of me, how
ever, was to write of him as
though he were a bachelor without of
course committing myself to any direct
statement | was amused at the request
snd askel for an explanation. "Oh," said
he, Il think a leading man loses much of
Is hold on the public If the fact that he is
married man is continually insisted upon"
md perhaps he was right.
1t Is surprising when one surveys the field
10 find how many of our popular favorites
ere married and how few openly avow the
fact. OF the latter Mrs. Langtry is, of
urse, the chief, and equally, of course, Mrs.
other cases, though her leading man Bellew,
by the way. was seriously annoyed when an
lconoclastic Photographer revealed the dis
Pressing truth that the beautiful Kyrle was
married man with large family. AS
totbat very marriage there is at another
pine an interesting story to be told.
charming and a good woman is Miss
hoslna Vokes, the youngest of that
talented family who were the first to add
tn fha % tI,, T,,fD
lheatpe Her husband, Cecil Clay, is also
Ter manager and is one of the incest fellows
m the theatrical business. Mr.. Clay is
brother of the well-known English COM
poser and musician of the same name, and
ne artistic instinct shows itself in him
hough in a different direction. He is al
Tays in good humor and takes the rough
vlth the smooth with surprising equinlmity.
me only thing which seems at any time to
Ferry him is the occasional lapse into in
Falidism of his wife.
Few bits of news have surprised the New
PORK theatrical world so much as did the
announcement of Rose Coghlan's marriage
clinton Edgerly, the son of a well known
Poston man of affairs. MIR. Edgerly is a
Dung, good-looking man who by profession
lawyer Soon after his marriage to
llss Coghlan that actress left the stock
&ompany of Wallack's where she had been
or many years and essayed a starring tour
nder her husbands management which,
ough artistically, was not altogether pecu-
larlly successful. Since the close of that
our and the return of his wife to Wallack' S
IT. Edgerly has resumed the practice Of
profession. During the summer months
Edgerlys live thoroughly rural life
small farm they have leased near
4 onkers.
Agnes Booth, who holds perhaps the fore
ost place in her profession, is no longer
Is Booth, though she still retains that
me on the stage. She was originally a
y, IS Rockies and married Harry Perry, a
Ell known and highly successful actor,
no dieI in San Francisco in 1862. Mrs
Try afterward married Junius Brutus
oih, Jr., and after his death she became
wife of John Schoeffel, Henry f.
o99y's partner. During the summer Mr..
u Mrs Schoeffel pass their time at Man
eS'er-on .the-sea, where they conduct
singularly successful fash
charming summer hotel
nlch belongs to them. In personal
Pearance Mr.. Schoeffel is a tall, we'll
" man with fair moustache and an in-
ulus heartiness of address. He is de-
ted to his wife and is naturally wonder
10y proud of her talents as an actress. L
INK one of the pleasantest sights o. the
III real life lever saw was one Sunday not
III hg ago when as / walked up Broadway |
eI this pleasant couple jogging to church
looking as though the feverish unrest
ehelr profession had never been known
tnem The Schoeffels through the win
MI hve in pleasant house up town, the
Ie OF which occupy the clever actress
1T me- when she is not on the stage.
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