The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-10
Her Quiet Life at the English
Watering Place.
AT WORK ON HER BOOK
1T WILL SHORTLY BE GIVEN TO
THE PUBLIC.
Then the World VIII Know Why
Miss Anderson Gave Up the Stage
-Interesting Giimpses of the
Present Life of the Great Actress

BRIGHTON, Eng, Oct. 91.-If the
many American friends of Mary An
derson. now Mrs Antonio de Navarro,
could see her these days they would
probably pass by without recognizing
her.
The once beautiful girl is still a
beautiful woman, but the beauty has
changed. 1t is a different kind of
beauty altogether Her face is sweet,
but there are sad lines in it. The lines
are mere shadows. but they have
changed the character of the face
which a few years ago was deemed
the most beautiful in her native land.
Mrs. de Navawos figure has also
changed. 1t is fuller than it used to
be, and could almost be described as
matronly. She seems listless at all
times and it takes a wide stretch of
the imagination to- picture her as the
woman who nightly stirred vast audi
ences into the highest pitch of mighty
enthusiasm and excitement.
There is something akin to mystery
concerning the once great actress. She
accepts the friendship of very few
people, and those who call upon her
never speak except on generalities
when talking about her. 1t is denied
on one side that she is an invalid, and
on another side it is asserted that she
is, with equal positiveness.
Not Our Mary of Odd.
Whether she is or is not, she is
certainly not the Mary Anderson of
old. During the pleasanter weather
she was wheeled about every morning
in a bath chair, with her husband al
most invariably as her compan Mon. She
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and generally wore a veil, and as she
seldom appeared on the streets except
in this wise, it was not possible to
judge very accurately of her state of
health by looking at her
Amateur photographers abound here.
and Mrs. de Navarro seems 20 dread
them. Few of them know who she is,
and even if they succeeded in making
picture of her it would probably be
decorated with the simple title, Lady
taking the air at Brighton" Her maid
who usually wheels her about, is an
expert at discerning photographers and
manages to Illustrate all their efforts
by moving Mrs. de Navarro into an i'm
possible light.
1t is generally understood that she
is putting the finishing touches to her
memoirs, and that the complete man
uscript will be given to her publishers
pefore many weeks nave passed. She
has been at work on this book for con-
siderably more than two years, but her
work has not been continuous by any
means. The death of her child a few
hours after it was born was sad be-
reavement and left her health in such
a precarfous condition that all work
on the book had to be abandoned for
several months
| When this book comes out the pub
/ lie will know for the first time the true
reasons. which prompted her to aban-
/ don a phenominally successful stage
career when she was at the zenith of
her fame. Much has been written to
explain this mystery. 1t has been said
at one time that it was due to her
! strong religious beliefs; again, that
her husband was opposed to stage life,
and others varously attribute it to a
collapse in her health, desire for I'M
disturbed home life and a score of
other reasons.
Off the Stage for Good.
There is little chance that Mrs de
Navarro will return to the states for
some time. That she will never ap-
pear on the stage again is as much a
certainty as anything can be. Mr.. de
| Navarro does not mingle in society