The Anaconda standard., 1899-07-30
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Rose Coghan, will be surprised to
| ruptcy court in New York to rid her.
self of the burden of $2ss36 worth of
| liabilities, and that out of the great
amount of money she has earned in
her time she has saved only $3.50 worth
of assets. About $4,000 of her indebt-
edness is in judgments against her,
| and the remainder is represented by
| printers bills, actors unpaid salaries
| and royalties on plays.
| For nearly q years Miss Coghlan has
been before the public, her American
| debut having been made at Wallack s,
Sept. 2, 1872.
Four years before she had appeared
| at Greenock, Scotland, as one of the
witches in Macbeth" She was then
only 16. The second year of her stage
| career in this country Lester Waliack
| offered her SIS a week to remain in his
stock company This was an unusual
ly big salary for an actress in those
days, and for 21-year-old girl some
thing phenomenal Miss Coghlan de-
| clined, however, and went back to
London, but returned here few years
| later Since then she has acted almost
continuously in this country.
/ What Miss Coghlan has earned dur
ing her stage career she herself does
not know. She has no gift for the de-
tails of business and, besides, cares
nothing for money except to spend it.
That is one of the chief reasons she is
bankrupt to-day.
1t has been estimated that in all she
has earned $3.50. 900 for herself and 10
times that for others. For years, as the
leading woman at Walack's, she re-
| ceived $400 a week. She made large
on
| once has lost them in unfortunate ven
lures
Another thing that has stood in Miss
| Coghlans path in the money -accumu-
| 1ating line has been her impulsiveness
| In private life she in many ways re-
sembled the Peg Wellington that she
portrays so admirably on the stage.
| After little tiff with the late Henry
| E. Abbey, who was at the time man
aging Wallack's, she gave up $400
a week place In the best stock sompany
in New York The two had disagreed
about her part in Liable Constan-
tine" s,-i
Time and again she has formed ex
pensive touring companies to bring out
plays that were too fine for popular
| money-making purposes. Trashy plays
! have always been her aversion, next to
| vaudeville. After brief experience IN
| one of the vaudeville houses a few
stave than go on with that kind of
| work.
Although bankrupt, Miss Coghlan
| is not theatrically on the shelf by any
| means. Sne still has the splendid vi
| rilty that has always characterized her.
| She is living at New Rochelle, where
she has made her home for some years,
| If the gossips tell the truth Mrs. An :
ME Yeamans is to marry Sir Rcgec
Dandilo, and become the grand LAZY
| of fine estate on the Isle of Man. Mrs.
| Yeamans is so years old, has been on
| the stage for so years, and is at pres
ent in London playing in Why Smit
Left Home" The New YORK Tee-
| graph, so 1t says, had an interview with
Mrs. Yeamans the other day over tha
| Marconi wireless telegraph. relative TO
the rumor of her intended matrimonial
venture.
"Arran, g'wan, there" she remarked,
| coauettishly, in answer to a blunt in
| uuiry as to the truth of the report, AN
| If it's so that it do be thrue, then phwat
Nv it?'
TT Is a matter of the greatest i'm
portance, Mrs. Yeamans," urged her
! questioner. IF the contemplated un
| ion occurs it will do much to cement
| the bonds of friendship and affection
between this and the mother country.
| 1t possesses more that personal sg-
nifcance. 1t takes on an international
| aspect, and
Faith, dunno" interrupted Mrs.
Yeamans-and one, in Imagination,
could see her coyly smoothing the folds
| of her green silk dress. AN If L
| should consint, Sir Roger might go fur
| ther and fare the worse. A foine man
| is Sir Roger, as straight an hardy as
a backbone, and divvle at roiding
after the hounds. Av coorse, it's
great honor, dye moind. and most
| temptin to poor girl all alone be her-
self in a wasn't city like Lunnon."
MANY Of our fairest American bellies
| have been wooed and won by titled
| foreigners" remarked the interviewer,
..but in this instance the honor is as
suredly Sir Rogers. 1 trust that you
will be well endowed, and that the Is
sue will be a happy one."
| "OPme not the kind that marries for
money" replied Mrs. Yeamans, decis-
| lively, "but if take him, I'll ne'er come
! to want It's a g-r-rand Estate that ne
! do be havin', with foodal cashtles an
| ancestral trees, an I'll wear gooid
corynet and scepther, and me darter
| jimmie in good time, praises be, ull be
| a rale jookess."
"And how about your other daugh-
ter, Lydia?'
| "Sthop, therer' cried Mrs. Yeamans,
with some excitement. "Mintion her
| not. She is excommunlcaoy an andli-
| ema an I'll not lishten to her name.
May you niver know how sharper than
a serpents tooth it is to have child O.
your'n marry a continuous pianny
| player. It's all off betune me and Ly-
| dia."
Pardon me-" apologized the other,
| somewhat crestfallen at having trod-
| den upon a family corn. But permit
me to ask whether. in the event of
your nuptials being celebrated, you
will leave the stage and what you VIII
| do with your great wealth."
| whist" whispered Mrs. Yeamans,
| impressively, as If apprehensive that
British spies might be lurking in the
| vicinity. "Oi'll not quit play actin,
| and Orll free Ireland. Ring OFF,
Anent the reception accorded De
Wolf Hopper in Eel Captain" by the
| Londoners, the New York World re-
ceived the following cable the other
| day:
"El Captain" which De Wolf Hop
| par presented on MOnday night at the