The evening world., 1894-08-16
0DETTE. TELLS OF HER TRIP.
But She Says She Won't Mention
the Name of Gould.
Her Nam. on the Havel's Passenger
List as Frau Kirkland.

On TIE passenger list Of the North
Iernan Lloyd steamship Havel, which
arrived from Bremen last night. is the
name, Frau Kirkland. Amerika." When
an FEvenlng World" reporter showed
TINS name this morning to Gen. William
N. Kirkland, the father OF Miss Bessie
| Kirkland, whose stage name Is Odette
Tyler, he SAIL
Yes, t is she. | did not know that
she had arrived vet. was expecting
her on t lie Teutonic. l know that II Is
she. however, ior l see on the list the
name of Miss Hallmark, with whom she
was to sail"
Gen. kirkland said hat his daughter
had probably gone into the country, but
that he did not know exactly where
Odette Tyler. II will be remembered, is
the actress whose engagement to How
| ard Gould, the third son of the late jay
Gould. made such a stir. The engage
ent was afterwards broken and Miss
Tyler went TO Virginia, and subsequently
sailed for Europ-.
Howard Gould also went to Europe.
and the rumor came oack that the en-
gagement had been renewed abroad.
When Gen. Kirkland's attention was
drawn to the fact that his daughters
name was printed In the passenger list
as Frau. or Mrs, Kirkland he said:
kirkland. and Is not married"
IL Is r,imored that her engagement to
Mr.. GOULD has been renewed. Do you
know IL the rumor is correct?'
1t Is pot There is no more truth in
the statement that my daughter has re-
newed her engagement to Mr.. Gould than
there would be In a report that 1 am
the PRESIDENT Of the United States. She
simply went tc Europe for a pleasure
trip. She was week In London. week
In Paris and then went to see ssme rela-
tives on the Continent.
Il have no idea where she may be
found, but | know that she must i'm
medlately begin rehearsing for the pa TT
| OF the heroine in Shenandoah which
VIII shortly be prroeSIced by Mr. Froh-
mans company. She takes the part Of a
Southern girl, and being a Southern girl
herself the part Is very congenial to
her"
Gen. kirkland said that his daughter
he knew, did not wish to discuss her
private affairs with any one, and was
only DESTROYS of having the Gould
engagement dropped altogether.
to her, but to the entire family" he
said, and j wish nothing more would
expected Miss Tyler yesterday on the
Teutonic, as she had cabled that she
would be in. America on Aug. 10. He
was very, glad that she had reached
hearsais Of "shenandoah" at the Acad-
envy of Music. Mr.. Frohman had not
heard of Miss. Tyler's arrival until told
Of y BY r Sn Evening World" reporter,
of Music just before noon, where the
company was awaiting her arrival for a
rehearsal of Shenandoah" While a
uptown hotels for her she was pacing up
and and down 2, the rear az Of the dark stage
said had "a a. PERFECTLY deSh,rS trip she
| II was away Just a month visiting my
friend, Mrs: O'Connor,. wife Of the mem
beI OF Parliament. and then spent tive
! did you meet Howard Gould or any
of the family while abroad?"
That Is a subject that I positively
decline to talk about. I have made up
Gould in any connection. You see l
have lost no time in getting back to
work. | have only been few hours off
the, ship. and here I am rehearsing. I
had a contract calling for me to be
here yesterday, but / could not keep 1t.
1 am very anxious to play In "Shenan-
doah" in New York ! understand they
and then the part of Gertrude Is so nice.
There are number of newspaper
men to meet me In Mr.. Frohmans office
III,
though newspaper men are always very
clever people,"
1t was suggested to Miss Tyler that
| the principal subject the public would
| like to hear from her on was the break
Ing OF her matrimonial engagement with
Howard Gould.
1T is a subject that no one has any
right to know anything about. / decline
| to talk about II in any way.
| speaking about my trip abroad.
was away just month, and have come
back well and strong, ready for a sea-
sons hard work.
Miss Tyler's attention was called to
the fact that her name appeared on the
passenger list of the steam as Frau
Kirkland" She laughed heartily about
1t.
II really do not know how 1t occurred.
Don't You think they honored me In
putting 1t down that way?"
1t was stated to her that many people
inferred that she had returned mar
ried woman.
why, whom would I marry?" she
asked. opening her eyes wide.
| perhaps Howard"-
There, that awful subject again. No,
I am not married. That's my cue; you
willie xcuse me-" and the next moment
she was In the centre of the stage. for
getting her own individuality In the
character of Gertrude.
Miss Tyler has grown somewhat
stouter than she was when she last APP
peared before a New York audience.
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