Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1898-02-24
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LITTLE l.OTTA.
The .O1d-Time Favorite Is Happily
Resting in Retirement,

The O1d-Time Favorite Is Happily
Resting in Retirement.
1t is given to few actresses to retire
gracefully from the stage. In fact, it
might almost be said Of them that
none resign.
Yesterday, however, says a New
York correspondent of the Chicago
Chronicle, l ran across the case of an
actress, second to none in America in
her day, who has cOntrived to retire
from the stage without unseemly talk
and to stay away from it in the peace
ful contemplation of a life Of perfect
privacy and quiet. Lolita is happy to
be Miss Crabtree now and until she
dies. She loved her calling when the
country rang with her praises, but she
has no regrets, or, if she has, conceals
them thoroughly from her most init
mate friends. Her disposition is sun
shiny, and those of you who remember
her, let us say, as ''Musette," can I'M
derstand what mean when [ say that
Lolita is ''Musette'' still, cheerful child
ish in a sweet, unaffected way, devot-
and rejoicing in her old friends, for she
makes few new ones now.
Miss Crabtree's devotion to her moth
er is a source of delight to those who
are privileged to see it. She has con-
centrated her affection-and she is full
Of it-upon the dear old lady. This live
is all returned, and the two are almost
inseparable. The other day Miss Crab
tree-I can hardly resist calling her
Lotta-much against her will, had to
leave her mother for the best part Of
the day. The cruel man who caused
this separation was the agent who
looks after the renting of the fiat build
ings in Upper New York which belong
to Miss Crabtree. He insisted upon her
inspecting her property. Her descrip-
ton of the tour afterWard was aWfully
funny She saw the amusing side Of
eyerything-even the janitors failed to
depress her spirits.
Miss Crabtree is a very wealthy wonl-
an. which makes her simplicity of life
and the pleasure she finds in it the
more remarkable. '.There is a halo of
happiness about that little red head"
said one of her best friends to me the
other day, land she keeps it aglow,
believe, by thinking most of the time Of
others, and especially of her mother.
She has beautiful home here in New
York. and she stays in it a great deal
longer every year than one OF her
means in this part Of the world usually
does.''
Lolita will never return to the stage.
and it is privilege to be able to recall
her charming representations, but can
not help feeling that if she had been
born a generation later and then found
some one to direct her artistic instincts
in a proper way, she would have
achieved greater triumphs and left up
on the public a deeper impression. Her
genius was never extended fully. The
PLAYS in which she appeared were the
yeriest trash She shone in spite of
them. We remember Lolita in this
character or that, but the very names
of the plays to which they belonged are
fast being forgotten. But what does
it matter to Lolita, still the darling of
every one who saw her, and, most Of
all, beloved by her own sex, though
lost to sight to memory dear" So
Lolita the actress retired without re-
grets to Lolita the constant cricket of
her own happy hearth.