Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1891-11-12
A. PECULIAR CAREER.
MARIE WAINWkl6Hr'S ENDEAVORS
10 ELEVATE THE STAGE.


r. F. v.-Alss With LOsis James.
Miss Marie Wainwright, tho grand.
OF = bishop, vino st .rtrd out
some ten or twelve years ago TO ele.
vate the stage, 10 i" . peck Of trouble
IT the present moment. Lots Of other
WON. n WHO have gone into the ele-
walton business have "a,issed their
tip" ss they say i" the CIRCUS. None.
however, have encountered more diss.
gr~eshle expert. noes in running tho
dram.t.c elevator than Miss Wain.
wright.
She began her professional career
- . bishops granddaughter. For
most young women with m i'll.
concealed mission that would have
bern quite enough. But i, WAS not
for Miss Wainwright. : . she married
IN F. f.. v. HIS claim to the initials
WAS beyond dispute. "ia'ry Slaughs'r
sab. Of visxinis," started out with tho
next thing 10 . patent of nobility.
People Who remember him r-cAi, .
young, slender, earnest, hot. headed
gentleman who thought he could
play poker 20 we'll tnAt he tried to
bring up = family ." the proceeds Of
he skull. Sheridan Shook, Andrew
Dam, Jr., "Jim" Meade, and other
highly trained experts. after . sum-
,ner's session with him, concluded he
coul,in't. So did he, evidently.
During the puker p. rod Of his
comjugai career Mr.. Slaughter t"k to
drink Going home at night lie would
visit upon tho fair person If his W.T.
tue d,.appo,n,m en' which overlook
MIN at the poker table He WAS a
fine, chivalruus young fellow j" HI.
pre- poker period. but under the genial
/. Hue,.css Of the game he developed
,u,o \ domestic e, nd.
FOUND LOUIS JAMES.
A handsome anu manly actor, Louis
James by tame. driit~d into Mrs.
Slauxht~r's life In this wxv. To keep
Slaughter gong his wife went out ot
amat~urdom on to the stage. S"~
got an engagement at the Boston
thea,er. james was l~x.i,nx man at
tina, play house. Une night he sske"
Mrs. S,xuR hner t. sup wit" HIM ut
Ooer's Iestxurant-sn establ,st me' ,
" lich the hunor If b. 'ston confounds
With Delmonico's. There in thu YER,
act 1t ate mp,inx to extract nutrition
from Boston lobster, Slaughter un-
exp-ct~dly found his wifi. James
occnpi-d polite BACKGROUND. Debate
ended in coercion. Slaughter began
to strike his wife. James merged
from tho background snh, ceasi"g to
be polite, rummelled Slaus ht-r. The
thing had to end somewhere. 1t
ended in . divorce. MIS-. : l.ught ,
h~ came Mrs. Jams. xnd for s"veral
yexrs the two of them mer,ily played
such trsgedie. by Shakespeare Ne
p~,mit husband and wife to appear to
qnat advantage.
In due course at time Mrs. Jane,
got ,i,ed IF dua ity. She felt, with
| j.stice. that sh~ WAS ahun'isntly abl.
To get along without MIR. James AZ
she had got along without Mr. Sla"gh
ter (who. BY the way. sought oblivion
and found death in Au-t,Alis).
1t 10 = curious fact, Fl citing credi
on the universally of thu. S-nnt~ o.
the United States, that Y inemb-r al
tina. august body arrived vt an opinion
identical with that of Mrs
Wa,nwught-S!au liter James. The
youngest, rs he is the handsonr st
Senator of the United States is Mr.
" slcott. of Colorado. A passionate
admir-r Of Shakrsp' are, hc succumbec
,nstantaneously IT, the Shakespear~ar
illus,rations OF Mrs. wainwright
Slaug liter James.
In short. It Is an open secret thai
: had it not hren for TIE aesthetic en-.
thu-ia>m Of SENATOR Wolro,t, Mrs
Wainwri ght- Slauxh ,er-James would
1t Il be TIE partner of J.. uis James
Mr.. Wolco,t became Miss W~,"'
wright's financial hacker. Between
resisting the force bill and helping
Miss Wainrieh, to keep the road, the
Sena,or had his hands full and his
pockets more or less empty. But in
tho cause of art h~ willingly suffered
depletion aud possibly annoyance.
Miss Wainwright hal not hem long
upon the road before an ex policeman
who used to patrol lower Broadway,
Billy Muldoon. the wrestler, who had
become an h"nored member Of the
dramatic profession, met her i" San
Francisco. A young lady whom Mr..
Mule oon had originally mt as a
uo'irem.n. aud VIII, m he had elevated
t the stage, had trouble with Miss
Ws;"wrioht one afternoon at the
Cliff House in San Francisco, ard