The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-16
4 GLIMPSE OF ELLEN TERRY.
Episodes in the Life of q Very Re-
markable Woman.


guerita Gautier did not exist before LA
Dame aux Camelias," but af er. So the
strange English Pthe ic type-the long
I Jaw, full pouting u Der lip. sinuous neck
and halo OF hair 1ined to strange length
of Ody, especially fro shoulder to elbow
and hip to ee, may be said to have been
/ formed from the art SCH oil, W lch repre-
! scented it, instead of the school being
founded upon the existence Of thes- types.
Surely looody ever called Ellen Terry
pretty in her youth, but whe' it was 8
| covere that her ja0 was | ke the Bu ne
Jones saints she see ned, as it were, TO grow
up to 1t become what was expected Of
| her She was very young, poor thl 2, when
SIC married the great artis- Watts; she had
| Away: en- on the stage AMI her brig L,
! joyous personality had -vea then begun t.
/ atrac. attention. l. was not love mates.
| She was only is and he an old man
who would never have thought Of
marrying, it is sail, If it had iot
been 5 ggeited to him By a friend,
! who lived uext door. and wGo t Q goss. ps
were beginning to talk about, saving toat
certain splendid iece of tapestry, whlch
hung IN the hall of the Watts house next to
ers, when lifted disclosed a sliding panel.
So she hougat it w1ul be wise to eaFe
him marry some raw-boned girl. L len
| Terry IS selected as the victim, aud g
gr7nd lady da ced at the wedding.
So you see her romance commenced very
early in life.
a COMPLETE CHANGE OF SURROUNDINGS.
Nrther the old artist nor the woman of
the world der-tOoi this strange girl. IN
fact, neither bought much about her. She
was surrounded with art influences and left
to grow bf herself. They had made mis-
take in their ction aud did not know it.
She was of stra ge, nervous, pecu arly
Ill ah1 a.,1 90 live. ~, 10. NF
all these strange spiendors and strange
people and strange conversation was ne Z
life 10 ter, new lucation, and she grad
Callr grew up to it. aud ere long her ma
ture began to expand, to be satisfied with
her position, to say to herself: 81, too, am
an artist
Trere IRE many different versions of the
final breakup. His friends say that a
streak of insanity ran through all her
actions, that she was 81 nervous, so ecce
trio aid unconventi nal he was at IL
obliged to put end to her mad pranks;
that on one occasion she actually Mortified
is guests by coming down to dinner Ia
ghts.
Her friends tell that she bore everything
as long as she could, and was a ma ty' t.
an old mans whims, till at last one day she
lifted the tapestry in the hall and disturbed
the serenity of the embr 1idered queens, and
pulled him out by the heels from under a
bed where he had hidden when he heard
her coming.
Modern life is full of tragedy as well az
ancient life, although in less romantic set
ting. When she left him she was still Young
and was beginning to be called beaut full
She was the 8,thetic tyre Of beauty which
people had been educated u to and pre-
pared to like beforehand in artistic society
she attracted much attention. There was a
friend of her family, a young architect IF
great tale It. One night he was taken i'll III
an old house al0ue, wi h no one ear him,
and he Sc word by passing boy for some
of the family to come rou I'd to see him.
They we're a ! occupied excepting the YOU
girl, who without tn ugut went TO see him
alone-all The world knows that she did not
return.
DESERTED By HER NEW LOVE.
For many years they lived together in
the cou try, and were very Happy in that
complete oblivion of the W rid which only
artists can feel who are completely wrapped
up in their art and in themsel ves-but he
was very ambitious, he was petted AID
praised by many node ladies, bis work led
him into maav of the Il est houses of To-
ion as counsellor and friend, he had walked
through CT W led ball rooms with coroneted
duchesses on his a m, and his soul began TO
yearn for the flesh pots Of Egypt, to feel
that he was not appreciated, that his life
as too narrow for hin.
She watched it grow day by day; she did
everything sho uld to make him happy,
ami whe she saw the end had come sal
nobly, without quarrel or reproach: II
know yol want 70 marry rich wife; well,
10 not let me stand in 70 II way" He pro-
tested, but the u ne was uot long before ne
society papers had to chronicle his marriage
with a ricl widow.
Some weeks after the wedding he met
her in the street, and in talking with her
said: You know | alwa IS feel most kindly
toward you" He weakly apologized f r
circu nsta ces aud said: Il want so much
to see the dear children. Will you n It
manage it some way 50 that I may meet
them occasionally" She replisd: way, |
really don. know how it couli be managed.
You See, had to accout u them in some
way for your ing away, SO | told them
that YOU we're dead. There is a grave in
Kensi gton churchyard without any name
on it, aud we all 60 the g every Saturday
and put flowers on il aud cry over it, aAd
have such nice time"
The real actress showed itself there.
Picture them weeping over the nameles
grave and eating their luncheons around it
MARRIED AGAIN.
All this time she was eadilv rising H.
her career, although no one realized that
SD6 WOUlu take ueE place am = Jle ii
actresses of the world. With all her flighci-
ness, she was very anti ious and worked
very hard at her ar. She b ID found pro-
tector. a young man named Kelley. who
married her and became a father to he
children. lie died few years ago, and
they were not very happy during the latter
years IF his life.
She is a too nervous, changeable, hysteri-
cal nature to b. really happy vita ay one.
She needs cnns ant chang to amuse he
a d occupy er mind. f en- at a dinner
party she cannot SIT III ough the enti Q
mesl, but has t. get up between tde urses,
fitting from ose ro) "a TO another to exam
inc tue pictures the bric-a-brac, g 9 decora-
tioas, talking nervously and gIyly all the
tune. She is fascinating ike an opal.
Her own hous- is filed with every luxu v
that art can invent d wealth can . ir-
one. fOr-almn st the o ly actress that
American soc CIV receives and for whose
preseace at luncheon and diner par ie'
even B Jston humoly bsgs-She is rGr u
seen IN 10 do society, whlls Ame lean
&C lresses, VINO are not socially noticed at
DO ne, are often lioaized there Truly, the
world is We y fury.
A few jou aa.Is ic and theatrical pc pie
she kno vs. intimately, but she l. beloved by
all Londou-Eav, . all tle I nited h &
donna d mired Ivy all the world. SIC
is casio ally seen at a. arade nv or a mi
vate view IN som. wonderful costume, aud
Is the sensation OF the afternoo for. sell
dom seen IN society. there is nlm .st more
cugiosity 20 500 her OF tho stage than aay