The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-04-09
~, Famous Actresses Who Have JIlaITiod N0beed
@ Far Of and Earl

full Helen Faucit, who died in her hon.
ored old age only last year, having near
-ly reached the golden wedding annfver-,
sary of her marriage to-. Sir Theodore
Martin. The pupil of "Farren and
the associate of Macready, the friend
of Thackeray, and 1.-The hostess for so
many years of the best in English So
ciety,. she was very notable instance
where aristocracy strengthened itself by
what some might consider a messalliance.
The American countess Of Essex, who
was Miss Adele Grant, of New York and
Newport presides over the great estate
of Cassobury park, Watford, where once
an actress ruled. For the great-grand-
uncle of the present earl married the
bes utiful ballad-singer, Kitty Stephens,
upon whose monument in Watford
church there are these lines:
Rest undisturbed within this peaceful
shrine,
Till agnels wake thee with a note like
thine.
The countess Of Craven, too--who was
Ccrnelia Bradley Martin-rules in state
ly Combe house, where once Louisa Brun-
ton, the actress, was countess before her.
And scion of the Craven family, too
son of Lady Evelyn Craven-is the de-
testable Marquis of Ailesbury, who mar
ried Dolly Tester. She may not be con-
graduated. Nor he, perhaps.
MAY YOHE-LADY HOPE.
Lord Francis Hope, whose family name
was Clinton. but who assumed his present
name to inherit the vast fortune of Henry
| Thomas Hope, the Amsterdam diamond
merchant. Is, perhaps. the only man in
| the British aristocracy who was ever
offered a million dollars-some say a
hundred thousand-to give up the love
of a lady. The lady was May Yohe. She
| is now Lady Hope.
JOrd Francis 10 tho nracl1rpfiva bair
| of his brother the seventh duke of New
castle, and may thus make of the actress
| some day a duchess. Meanwhile his for
| tune is somewhat embarrassed, though he
has relieved his pecuniary difficulties,
| which are entirely of his own causing,
| by selling the famous Hope diamonds
| for $4,000. and by leasing his beauti-
| full seat, Deepdene, to the American
Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, Lady
Beresford.
1t was not Miss Yohe's first marriage.
She had been for short time the wife
! of handsome Jack Mason, the actor,
but they were divorced. She has bright,
piquant lace and a beautiful figure,
| which her style of costume in such parts
as Dick Wilmington displayed to the
| best advantage.
Her manner used to be as piuuant as
her face. for was 1t not she who once
hailed the prince of Wales, during one
Oh MS excursions behind the scenes as
Cock of the Walk?" However she is
now staid and demure, as becomes a pos
( sible duchess, and Is mainly concerned
| in rescuing her husband from the debts
| he fell into while acting as the "aneeP'
| of her opera company.
| Indeed, most of the stage countesses are
admirable economists when they have
married and settled down.
| BARONESS Won HELDBERG.
The marriage of actresses to members
OF the aristocracy happens less frequently
! upon the continent because of the sys-
1 tenn or morganatic marriage which makes
something Of "a halfway station between
| low and high life for beautiful women of
/ the stage; partly, too, because of the In
| suits which in continental society are
| often reserved for women who have mar
/ ried into the nobility
/ The most notable actress thus NOR
| ganatically attached to the edge of the
| German nobility was Helen Franz who
| left the stage to become the third wife of
| the famous Duke of Saxe-Meiningen. If
| was In part because. of her interest in the
stage that the duke became the organizer
/ and practically the manager. of the most
| perfect theatrical company in Germany
| and one of the best in the world
The dukes first wife was the Princess
| Charlotte of Prussia; his second, the
! Princess Theodore Of Hohenlohe, q