Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-29
BIG CITY LIFE.
Maggie Mitchell Played Love Until She
Fell in Love.
how Mary Anderson as Juliet Tickled Her Dead
Romeo Until He Uttered String of Curses.
Day of The Rookie"

Correspondence OF Ine ddzette.
NEW YORK, June 24.-No time of the
year are there more curious people on
| Broadway than in June. They are the
atrical folks, lately done with one sea-
sons work and already planning for an
other. To use one of their own slang
words, many of them are guys; but
many, too, are beauties, and nearly all
are interesting. For example, a couple
! passed me an hour ago. The man was
! under thirty five. and q handsome, sty-
| fish chap. The woman was fifty-seven,
and so, so far as-ages went, might have
| been his mother. She had his arm, and
! he was very attentive to her. a second
| look revealed in the miniature matron,
| none other than Maggie Mitchell, the ao-
tress. The young man was Charles Alb
bolt, the successor of Hank Paddock as
her husband. Abbott played the stage
lover to her until she fell in love with
him, and when the place of spouse became
! vacant he secured it. That beats any
theatrical engagement. 1t was realism
TO the extent of not less than a quarter
of a million dollars, for that is a moder-
ate estimate of her wealth. Acquaint-
ances are watching to see how fast and
how much Abbott will get conSrol of the
fortune. His first move was TO GUST her
! business agent, named Lukens, who had
also been sutton for her hand. The
men had fight in Philadelphia, and
Abbott was whipped; but he downed
his rival afterwards by securing his dis
charge, aud a lawsuit is the result. Alb
bolt has just hired an actor TO replace
hum in hn xuhi ha ri
played with his bride, and announces
that he will figure hereafter as a capt.
talist. He has expansive schemes for
the production of plays, for building of
theaters and for other uses of capital.
For the summer, Mr.. and Mrs. Maggie
Mitchell Abbott will be a sight at Long
| Branch, where the popular actress has
long had a residence, and where her
young husband will be an object of Curl
Gus scrutiny.
Apropos of the marriage of Mary An
| derson, the American actress, to An
tonic de Navarro in London, some of the
anecdotes that illustrate a few phases of
her character are at this moment inter-
esting. l am not sure il that one has
yet been told which concerns her in that
period of her professional career when 1t
was her delight to chew gum and to stand
in the wings of the theater and do what
she could to "break up' the actors who
were on the stage. Mary was playing
Juliet to the Romeo of a man whom she
valued as friend but whom she loved to
worry. In the last act of the drama,
when Juliet is writing over the body of
Romeo, bewailiug his death, Mary, on
an important first night in certain city,
Int ad ia in q vvaU haf
ened to ealyanize the corpse and ruin
the scene. In vain did the actor plead
for mercy. He brought every whispered
argument to bear upon Juliet TO make
her desist in her playfulness. assuring
her that in another instant he would have
to squeal, and SO bring ridlcule upon
them both. The actress did not heed mis-
prayers, however, and continued to
tickle him as she recited the heartrend-
ing lines of the bereaved Juliet. Sud-
denly the actor changed his tactics and
under his breath, he uttered a string of
curses. Juliet stopped short in her Ia
mentations and trembled. Then she
went on and Romeo was saved. After
the performance it was very difficult for
the actor to convince the Infatuated
queen OF tragedy that he was driven to
the heroic measure of swearing by her
own deviltry. She finally decided that
her mischief was more serious than she
had fanoied, but she declared that the
oaths were unnecessarily violent.
-.
On another occasion Miss Anderson
was living at a private house with some
friends IN one of the towns where she
was playing, and it was her regular GUS
tom each morning upon arising to in
dulge in a pillow-fight with the two
young ladies of the house. During one of
these battles, when the pillows were the
thickesL, Mary threw her missile at the
head of one of the girls, but the latter
being agile, lodged, and it sailed
through an open window, lodging among
the telegraph wires that ran in front of
the house. The passers-by were at
tracted by the strange sight, and as they
glanced up theys discovered the tousled
heads of three pretty young women
peering over the window sill, looking
somewhat frightened at the ridiculo us
work they had accomplished. The pref
test of the heads was that of our own
Mary.
1t seemed impossible to think of such
misehievous fairy as she seemed at that
moment stalking the dramatic boards
and uttering deep-chested defisnces to
Tue VdrlOuS powers Oh 6dTlu auQ the WOrIQ
beneath it. Since those not very distant
days l am assured that Miss Anderson
has lost large share of the spontaneous
vivacitv that made her SO desirable then,
It's place being usurped by strange Brit
ish primness touched with a shade of
melancholy.
At this particular time of year the |
ets booklet is the most conspicuous in |
.&ebitant of the uptown resorts of lux |
iAriOus idleness. The sfbookie' is the |
man W no sells those little tickets at the |
horse races that are sometimes so pre-
eious and at others so depressingly |
worthless. AT this moment he is in |
New York, and the time to see him |
in all his characteristic force is during |
the evening, when his work is done |
and he Is discussing the history of the |
day a. the race track. The bookmaker |
and Il 1reg Mar follower of the races are
men unique appearance, manners
and laabits. / have in mind group of |
four u at dine together each night. One |
sfrunsla book and the others merely |
play { e races ct heavy ticks. They are
all heSsly built. square-iawed aud Sc
rious Hiking men, well dressed, soft |
voicedT Ind exceptionally good eaters,
thsfr zines plavinp a very large mart in