Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-12

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Mary Anderson left the stage. Since then
thousand rumors concerning her have been
floating in the air. It was incredible, un-
natural, people said, that any artist with a
record such as that of Miss Mary Anderson
should deliberately prefer quiet domestic
life to such fame and fortune as she might
command at any moment Such, however,
seemed, indeed, the case. Mr.. and Mrs.
de Navarro were occasionally seen stTun-
bridge Wells, at Bournemouth, and
other honeymoon haunts; but, strange to
each others society on all occasions to that
of the would-be admirers and friends. 1t
was notifying; and of course there must be
some mysterious reason for this strange
shrinking from prying eyes. That bride
might naturally find it more to her taste to
be with the husband In whom she sees the
beau ideal Of q man, or that the husband
would rather have the society Of the woman
whom he worships, did not occur to the good
people at the various watering places, whose
chief fault was that they were just little
bit commonplace and slow of understanding.
Driven Into seclusion.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. de Navarro were too
good-natured and too Indifferent to the
doings and gossipings of their estimable
temporary neighbors to deprive them will
fully of the excitement occasioned by the
simple and unassuming diversions in which
the two reveled during their stay at a
place. But when, after Drawing countless
"mobbings," they discovered that "lady,"
whose sitting-room at the hotel Joined their
own, made it habit of stealing across the
verandah outside for the express purpose of
peering into their room, they beat retreat
into still greater privacy, and henceforth
have been allowed little more freedom.
For the best part of the last IL months
Mr.. and Mrs. de Navarro have been living
at Tunbridge Wells, in the green neighbor-
hood Of which they have now determined to
settle definitely in pretty house, the fur
nishing of which they enjoy with all the
delight of children who have Just been
given a new and complicated plaything
Now it is the purchasing of some quaint old
piece of furniture which causes the young
householders infinite interest and amuse-
ment; again they add to their vocabulary by
the addition of what were hitherto to them
unknown goods and utensils of the kitchen
and storeroom. And, between these occu-
pations and discoveries, the long rambles
through the lanes and byways, in which
husband and wife take an equal delight, the
study of Spanish pursued by Mrs. de Ma
varro under her husband g tuition, the even
ings devoted to music, to which both are
passionately devoted, while Mr.. de Navarro
is high-class performer as well as a con-
noisseur and composer, and the intercourse
with few friends, complete their present
daily routine.
The Couple at the Church.
All Tunbridge Wells has from the first
shown itself not only willing, but eager, to
fete and welcome 'the De Navarros" Un-
fortunately, these strenuous endeavors have
so far met with very little response. Ifyou
go to the Roman Catholic Church down in
the town, you may, Sunday after Sunday
mostly at early mass, as well as during the
chief service Of the day-see Mr.. and Mrs.
de Navarro, side by side, looking into the
same book, and joining in the service with
the devoutness for which Miss Mary Ander-
son has always had the reputation, and
which is fully shared by Mr.. Antonio de
Navarro
They are unwearying walkers, too-they
and MIR. j. Anderson, Mrs. de NaYarros
brother, who, with his young wife, is at
present staying at Tunbridge Wells, and
yet another newly-married couple. And the
amusing, and to the Philistines incompre-
hensible, part of it all is that when these
three couples take their walks abroad
together every wife should prefer to pair
OH" with her own husband, and he with her,
instead of with each others, according to
the approved fashion.
1t was in the drawing room Of one Of the
pretty country houses on the hill slopes
above Tunbridge Wells that / met Mr.. and
Mrs. de Navarro a day or two ago. OF
course, had heard dim rumors that "Miss |
Mary Anderson was completely broken
down in health, that she was "a wreck of her
society phrase-"gone of" altogether. 1t |
was therefore with considerable surprise |
that looked up to the radiant woman enter |
ing the room, her figure as queenly as ever,
healthy tinge that follows an outdoor life IN |
pure air and pleasant surroundings, and her |
eyes flashing with happiness and high |
spirits. |
Retires From Her Own Choosing.
Mrs. de Navarro, though she has left the |
STAGE has not lost her interest in her art, nor |
does she affect to look down upon it from |
''the heights by great men reached and |
kept" or to regard her past career with /
sublime Indifference. She is tired of acting:
the eternal "make-believe," the sham grier
and wrath and happiness, grew intolerable
to her, as she went on delighting others, but
she most emphatic applause how far short
her representation of a character fell of the
deal she had formed of it. "The applause,
often raised at a moment when 1t altogether
destroyed the effect of q scene," she says, |
n her low, musical voice, "never delighted
or helped me-, But tell you when l was
stirred. When the audience was perfectly
silent, the hush, the silence were more to
ne than the loudest applause"
And, even more than the audience, her
colleagues on the stage were often sort of
to her. "You conceive q
scene, after thinking long and seriously
about it. You think you know how it should
De acted. You go to the theater full of en-
,husiasm, and try to impart something OF it
20 those with whom you act. A few hours
lfterward you go home, tired, and with all
Tour spirits quenched. They cannot or
will not, see it; all your efforts have been in
rain; you feel that it is hopeless"
The end of 1t all was that Miss Anderson,
Lfter a terrible breakdown in consequence
II overwork, from which she has only just
to complete health, fed from the
tage, and, will give no ear to the host of
managers as eager as ever to offer |
Ter the most brilliant engagements. Mr.. |
le Navarro, if his wife expressed the wish to
eturn to the stage, would never think of
her; he has far too much of the
rtist's soul not to sympathize to the full
With the longings to express in acting, or
or music what stirs the heart and
mind. But no; she had the choice between
public life of triumph and success and a
cry simple retired home life; she has chosen
he latter, and is radiantly happy in 1t.
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