The San Francisco call., 1895-11-12
Mamma Mooney Starts for Los
Angeles to Manage Lady
Douglas.
HAD NO HORsEWHIP WITH HER,
The Mother of the Peeress Forced by
Financial Stress to Go Second
Class.

Lord Sholto Douglas new job of theat-
rical manager is in jeopardy. His mother
in-law, Mrs. Mooney, has started for Los
Angeles to see if she can't assist him in
guarding and properly exhibiting the
money-making qualities of Lady Sholto.
Lord Sholtos insinuations that Mrs.
Mooney is not moved entirely by her ten
der care for her daughter may have some
foundation. In spite of her temporary
partnership with the Alameda Constable,
whom she assisted in working up a case
against saloon man across the bay for
selling beer without license, Mrs. Mooney
Is not exactly rolling in wealth. AS a
matter of fact she is really "hard up" as
was instanced by the fact that she had to
ride to Los Angeles in the uncomfortable
second-class carriages, because it only
costs $12 to travel that way, while passage
by the luxurious frst-class coaches costs
So more.
Mrs. Mooney is a trim, loquacious little
woman. To a young man in the depot
she confided the fact that she was unable
to buy first-ciass ticket. Then she de-
nounced all men as liars, repudiated the
several interviews she has had with them
recently and then proceeded to verify most
OF their statements. Mrs. Mooney had no
horsewaip wi tn her.
Them stories is all lies" she declared.
81 never said I was going to horsew nip
Lord Sholto. If it was necessary for any,
thing of that sort to be done would look
to my boy Tom to attend to it for me-
Mrs. Mooney had picture of Thomas,
which she exhibited proudly. He is big
fellow, with heavy, uninteresting face.
He looks, though, as if he would make a
success IN rough and tumble fight.
Mrs. Mooney said that she was going to
Los Angeles, because she thought she was
the proper person to manage Lady Sholto.
Lord Douglas, she was sure, would be i'm
posed upon at every turn, and she consid-
cred it her duty to help them, she said
when they were in position to need her
advice and managerial ability. Mrs
Mooney will also look out for the welfare
OF her son Tom"
Local vaudeville managers and theatrical
agents have acquired anything but pas
sionate admiration for young Thomas
Mooney. They do not agree with Mrs
Mooney as to the talents of her son. He
sang with his sister Loretta for some time
before she became Lazy Sholto Douglas
That was when Mamma Mooney was act
ing as manager. Then Mrs. Mooney would
make 1t condition of her daughters en-
gagement that brother Tom should be
| hired, too. In order to get the beauty
whose notoriety made her so strong a
drawing the brother also got a Job
He has not been SO busy since Loretta left
the stage.
When Mrs. Mooney learned that he1
daughter contemplated returning to pro-
tesslonal life she went post-haste to Lady
Sholto's accredited agent, Archie Levy,
and to the manager of the theater where
Lady Sholto had been booked. She an
nounced that she was going to manage her
daughter, and that the young lady would
not make contract with them unless her
brother Tom were given employment also
II have received a letter from my daugh-
ter saying she was going back on the stage,
and asking me to look out for a place" :"
said Mrs. Mooney. 'Now, L know she
won't go on without Tom, so if you really
want her at yonr theater why you've got
to hire Tom, too
Mr.. Levy told the fond mother that he
had received several letters and kilograms
from her titled daughter requesting him
to book her in San Francisco and the East
and fixing terms. He exhibited the letters
and pointed out that they said nothing
about "brother Tom" or even about
Mamma Mooney.
This Mrs. Mooney declared was an over
sight. She admitted that Lord Shoto
didn like Tom, and that Tom reciprocal
ted this aversion. But she said Tom was
necessary to Lady Sholto's success, and
she also thought that the black haired
little dancer would make more money il
her mother was managress than if her
husband, Lord Sholto, acted as business
man. In fact, Mrs. Mooney professed
great contempt for his lordships business
acumen.
Mrs. MONEYS present trip to Los Ange-
les IS avowedly to gain control of her
daughter. The mother is very poor The
daughter is now making considerable
money through her notoriety as the wife
OF son of the Marquis of Queensberry
The mother, who controlled the earnings
OF the girl before her marriage, evidently
wants to make an attempt to resume hel
former place as purse-holder.
Her success is problematical. Lady
Sholto fled from. her mother once at The
time OF her marriage. Lord Sholto doe:
not like his mother-in-law and Mrs
Moneys reception by the young couple
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