The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-11-09
our MARY'S HAPPY lLIFE
flatters Of Interest Concerning
the Once Great actress.
Mary Anderson.
Refutation Of the Stories Told
About Her Unhappy
rlarriage.
But She Has Turned Into a fla
tronly-Looking Woman With
Dairymaid Cheeks.

Recent adyices from England concern
| ing Mary Anderson are that she is II:
poor health. She is at Brighton, where
| she is wheeled about in bath chair. Ma
varro, her husband, looking pale and bag
gard, follows her closely all of the time.
She is said to- be amazingly changed.
| All of the sylph-like indications OF her
pretty figure and the somewhat ethereal
! face are gone and she has turned into a
matronly looking woman with plump,
dairymaid cheeks, says the Philadelphia
Catholic Times.
Mary Anderson will never be seen on
the stage again. A few months ago she
became a mother, and her child died on
the same day it was born. She has been
writing her memoirs for the past two
years, and the publication OF them has
| been expected long ere this.
| John w. Norton, the well-known theat-
| rical manager, who lost his life in the ter
rible wreck on the Vandalia line near In
| dianapolis few months ago, is generally
understood among knowing ones to have
been Mary Anderson's first love. 1t was
he who first brought Miss Anderson out,
and under his management her success
was almost instantaneous from the first:
He played Romeo to her Juliet. He was
a handsome, charming fellow and created
| an impression on "Our Mary's' heart that
her intimate friends and acquaintance
| always, thought to be lasting.
The writer has known Miss Anderson
we'll ever since her debut in Louisville.
and is familiar with the circumstances OF
her life thereafter. The life of Mary An
derson is unique chapter in the stage
lore of the nineteenth century. Hlstl-
roniE annals present no similar example.
she ID perhaps the only great actress who
! in the flush of strength and youth, IN the
! full glow of her triumphs, with the whole
world doing her homage, even pre]udlced
ENGLAND for the first time contesslng and
substantially manifesting unrestrained
admiration for the genius and charm OF
an American actress--for London was
conquered and at her feet-she is the first
one while still in the full bloom of health
and Youth to abandon these honors and
glories for the simpler charm OF home
life and to seek seclusion at an unpreten-
tious treside.
! Mary Anderson's home life is perfectly
happy. Until she has published her own
memoirs the world will never know why
she deliberately renowned the fascina-
tons of the stage for the commonplace OF
rnatrimony and a modest home, condi-
tons that seem at once tedious and i'm
possible to the average being while stand
! inc in the dazzling light of universally
acknowledged fame. And those who
worship money will never cease to wonder
why this young woman was so indiffer-
ent to the golden god as to give up call
| ing that assured her at least 100000
every year. They will wonder why she
was willing to quit with half million or
| less, when she might have had million
and a. half and more. 1t was not an
| impulse, because at least a year before her
retirement she declared her intention to
that end. 1t was not religious fanaticism,
for she never had any thought of entering
a convent, and it was not wholly with
view to matrimony, for whether she had
married Mr.. Navarro or not, it was her
unalterable determination to leave the
| stage.
So we shall leave it for Miss Anderson
| herself to tell. as she will do in her me-
moirs. WHY she cared no longer to stand
| in her greatness before the public view.
She left it with the respect and affection
OF the profession, whose admiration she
| had compelled, her genius acknowledged
by the entire English speaking world.
| But it is of the happy home life Of this
sweet and great woman, rather than with
her genius and her triumphs that the
writer would deal. We feel it a duty to
give the world for first time truthful
/ glimpse of this GROWING happiness and
thereby controvert the brutal SANDERS of
| the ambushed traducers who a couple of
wears ago invaded the sanctity OF her
| home to print the most cruel and Wanton
| Observation-Disclosures that deliberately
Iperverted her happiness into misery, that
pictured one of the most gentle, gallant
/ and solicitous of husbands as a wretch, a
I parasite and pauper, and which further,
| in the very depravity OF mischlevous y
/ ing. sought to make it appear that Mr.. De
l Nsva FRO had squandered his wifes estate
I and that they were living in poverty.
81 1t is difficult to understand by what ig-
noble are Of mendacity these ISLANDERS
we're invented and in what spirit of base
! ness they were uttered. Yet the fact re-
mains that they were contrived and utter
i al and that men believed them and still
llaShelieye them. But let us look at the
! truthful and happy sid de of the picture.
| Ten years ago gallant young New
yorker graduated from the Columbia
j college Law School, and in the same
4 wear. 1884. was admitted to membership
i IL the New York Bar Association. The
prominet famili cf the great netropo-
4 lis are national celebrities in the United
States and so,Stth De Nayarros need no
i Introduction hd :. hen Antonio q. de
Navarro left cAl1ege his ather was IS
MI llionaire. and the young mans expee-
4 tations conside ll from =; y1orldly stand
.pain were al her bfIl limit Per
sonaIly He vas tful yyasla feIlo,
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