Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-05-02
CHARMS OF ELBANORE MAYO:
Bewitchirg Young Woman who has
set the Critics Raving.

The poet, Keats, sings about the one
perfect day, dropped, f1awless and
complete, into each season. Take 81
little pains to keep a record and you
will find that his song is based on
fact. Somewhere within the circle of
summer, autumn, winter or spring
there comes a day so absolutely fault
less that one can never hope to match
it's lovelinesS.
Once in awhile there materialiZeS in
the form of human flesh a woman 80
beautiful that not a single charm is
lacking, nor could the most absolute
cOnnOSSieur of beauty suggest an add
ed tint. When ut happens that to Su-
preme loneliness is subiOined the gift
of good fortune, so that happiness ar0
the best of this worlds successes are
attendants straight through from the
cradle to date, what shall we call the,
combination but the realization of "a
fairy tale.
The princess whose tintS were Of
the lily and the rose. whose tongue
dropped gold whenever she spoke, and
the touch of whose hand left "a lasting
benedictiOn, has very nearly found
latter-day incarnation in pretty Miss
Mayo, who has created the part of
Princess Bonnie in Willard Spencer'a
comic opera of that name
Miss EleanOre Mayo was educated
at a cOnv near Elmira, n. Y For
eight years she blOomed Ike u ciOiS-
tered rose within those SOmber wallis
The brilliant career which followed
her girlhood's seclusi0n is made ala
/ the more splendid through contrast.
Aided by her fathers name-aDd who
has not heard of Frank Mayo? she
stepped at once into a posi- tfOn which,
some work years to attain. She scored
her first success with a company too
+ thoroughly artistic to be as popular
as it might have been, perhaps, had
it admitted more ''h0rSe play into ITS
libretto. SO charming was her inter
probation of the part given her that
! she rose DIT once to the regard of such
artists as DamrOsch and others OF his
ilk. She became the rage, bOtfi or
account of her almost perfect beauty
, and her voice. which is as fresh as frer
color. She went to the Spencer Opera
company with a reputation wh5ch
paved the way to "a success still greater
than that already won.
Princess Bonnie achieved Sresgt
success in Philadelphia where it ran
40 nights to crowded houses. IT was
during this season that Miss Mayo
met the Prince Charming. who was
! to bring the story Of her Fife TO it's
romantic contamination. Smitten first
by her beauty and her accomplish
ments. but afterward still more iIn-
pressed by her wOmanly sweetness of
character. the son of one Of the
Quaker city's most successful business
men.-the present mana ger Of a great
daily paper and inheritor of millions
laid his heart at the fair lady's feet
+ with such success that the wedding
day is fiXel for April 3. and with the
conclusion Of the Chicago engagement.
Miss Mayo will sever her connection
from the dramatic world
Miss Mayo'S beauty is very much of
the same order as Lillian RuSselT'S=-
She is as softly colOred as an apple
blossom. with contours and curves thar
melt into one another like snow anG
cream. Her hair is Of a warm golden
tint. and of the kind described ass
fluffy" Her smile is most beautiful,
her teeth are white and even as seed
pearls, and her mouth is wonderfully
pretty. Her hands and arms are per-
feet, and really, TO sum the whole
| thing up in a word, she is as perfect
a piece Of flesh and blood as ever car
RED a soul.
EFF women said Uncle Eben, ''am
| ez contrary Ell some folks 'clah's dey
| is. de bes' way ter git EN- out of