The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-15
YOUNG LIES SORROW
PATHETIC CONDITIONS UNDER
WHICH THE BRILLIANT MISS
COGHLAN NOW ACTS
STORY OF A DRAMATIC STAR
But Two Years ON the Stage, and
Yet a Rising Stellar Attraction
Miss COghIan Was Born in Lon
don, and Has Crossed the Ocean
peared in but One Play.

don, and Has Crossed the Ocean
FOrty-One Times-Has Never Ap-
peared in but One Play.
When the curtain falls on the last
scene of 1.-THE Royal Box" now at the
Metropolitan, the habitual theatergoer
rubs his eyes and awakens to the fact
that there is young star in the drama
tic armament whose luster is increasing.
While it was not the name of Miss Cogh-
Ian that drew him to the theater, 1t
dawns upon him that, somehow, the CEN
ter of interest in the play has been the
somewhat mysterious Celia Pryce, and, by
reference to his programme, he discovers
that Miss Coghlan and Celia Pryce are
identical. She is new to the Western cir
cult, but she comes to receive as warm
a welcome as is bestowed on the first
violet of spring.
In their pleasant rooms at the Ryan
yesterday afternoon Miss Coghlan and
her mother, Mrs. Charles Coghlan, re-
ceived a representative of the G o e.
And it was then that Miss Coghlan sur
prised him with the information that her
art was but the result of two years ex-
perience on the stage. But, let it be re-
membered that those two years were
passed under the guidance of the late
Charles Coghlan. And here was most
beneficient combination. Genius on the
one hand; the tutorship Of genius on the
other. Small wonder then that the result
has been SO eminentIy successful.
Miss Coghlan was born in London, and
has crossed the ocean, as child and
maiden, ferty-one times. She recalls a
delightful English home in Hertford-
shire and there she passed many a happy
day in company with her father and
mother. Two. years ago Mr.. Coghlan
completed his adaptation of THE Royal
Box" and, as usual, set himself to find
suitable company. He, better than
others, realized the possibilities Of Celia
Pryce, and he, at least, had fathomed
the resources of his beautiful daughter
There was a rehearsal or two. Charles
Coghtan was severe, yet kindly critic.
Miss Coghlan essayed the part. In the
course of the third act Mr. Coghlan threw
the book upon the table and announced
that she would do
New York has accepted his Judgment
Chicago, New Orleans and San francisco
the same. Previously Miss Coghlan had
played the minor part Of Juliet in the
false scene on the Drury Lane stage in
The Royal Box" From the least part
in the play she stepped triumphantly
into the most prominent and most diff
cult.
But the pathos Of 1t all! On Nov T.
1899, little over a month ago, her father
teacher, guide, philosopher and friend
died. And that one night the daughter
was absent from the play, but for the
company's sake she played the next
night with the tears streaming down her
face. And in her lines are the words 81
am an orphan" Only by the severest
mental and physical control did Miss
Coghlan make her sorrowful way through
the play, the only play in which she had
ever appeared, and the one In which heI
father had gently led her upward from
obscurity to prominence. Night after
night had she made love to her father in
the ingenious character Of Celia Pryce
and now a stranger had his part but
with her memory remained. And every
night 1t is the same and the little black
bonnet and sable sash Of Celia Pryce
are symbolical Of a daughters f1lial love
Only two years, in but one play, and yet
star. Surely this Is triumph OF which
Miss Coghlan, although reared in the
atmosphere of the stage, may we'll be
proud. She is not a strong woman, physi-
cally, but evidently Of intense nervous
force and energy. These alone have sus-
tanned her under most trying circum-
stances.
Shortly before he died Mr.. Coghlan had
completed dramatization of William M
Thackeray's Vanity Fair" And here II
is but just to say that, aside from g
portion of the first act, all of "The Royal
Box" is his own. For the part Of Becky
Sharp Mr.. Coghlan had cast his daugh-
ter, and she was to have appeared in Il
next season.
81 do not know now" said Mrs Cogh-
Ian, when we will put Vanity Fair on
but we hope to some time I know that
the part of Becky is distinct from that
Of Celia Pryce, but my daughter has q
real friendship for comedy, and will dc
it Justice
1.-THE following tribute to my father
said Miss Coghlan, sis the best I have
seen and 1 prize 1t highly. The lines were
written by John Ernest Mccain, anG
first published in the Dramatic Mirror
and Miss Coghlan presented the G OBJ
representative with them, on mourning
card:
dead
And his fawless art is a vanished thing
There IS no tonight or tomorrow to dreal
For the dear, dead prince. who should
have been king.
With deep regret We mournfully fling
Roses and rue round his classic head:
VioletS, too on his pulseleSs breast;
And, though his spirit has taken wing.
To his inbred sweetness and charm we
cling;
To the grace, the soul of our long-lovet
guest;
Our bonny Prince Charles who should
have been king
The great sorrow that has entered the
young life of Miss Coglan will, undoubt.
edly. make her stronger and more self.
reliant. Let us do our best for the
reputation of the family was her IA
theirs motto. and, undoubtedly it will be
hers. She promises this and all will be.
lieve her.