Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1900-08-23


"A Bunch OF Keys. A tragedy has
hurled him into obscurity.
Two years ago he looked upon his
young wife in her coffin with her dead
\ infant on her breast. When the cur
= tain was rung down upon beautiful
Caroline Miskel Hoyt it caught the
playwright in its folds. Today it has
obscured him utterly.
The funmaker came into. The Hart
ford probate court recently 10 plead
for his liberty. He came to make a
protest against friends who, in their
regard for him, would immune him in
a retreat for the insane.
Il have had a great deal of trouble,
judge" he said. Il lost my wife and
child oth-both-both"-
The brain that for 20 years had pro-
vided fun for thousands seemed to
waver, the voice that had so often been
raised to create new witticism broke
The funmaker's head fell upon his
breast. "Trouble-trouble," he re-
peated vaguely, lettering where he
stood.
Charley Hoyt's insanity is not happy
He has still the realization that his
IDOL the woman who made life prec-
ious to him, is dead. He knows that
in little cemetery at Charleston, N.
H., his wife and infant son are sleep
ing. Because Of them he has forgotten
his jokes His business till then was
to make people laugh. He did it we'll
and easily. A Hoyt play meant an
evening of fun. A Hoyt play was syn
onymous with a good time.
But that was before Charley Hoyt
had been driven insane by sorrow
That was before the maker of jokes
had dipped his pen in tears.
Caroline Miskel Hoyt was one of the
most beautiful women of her day. To
most playgoers it is scarcely necessary
to recall her. She was a beauty and
an actress. She was as the poet would
have her, tall and divinely fair. She
was bewitching beauty, with amia-
bility in her smile and graciousness in
her manner Her hair was golden. her
cheeks were pink, her skin was white,
Those who may not have had the
7 pin are of seeing her off the stage
! may have fancied that powder and dye
and rouge might so endow her. But
Ssroline Miskel Hoyt was beauty
no might have stepped from behind
e footlights into a glare of nature 8
oh inc NJ houa hold hnr
meath it. The charm of her coloring
an accessory to the charm of her
ores. Her chin captivated, her eyes
shted, her lips allured
In the memory of men Caroline Mis-
DRel Hoyt would have lived as a beauty
even if she had never learned to act
But she was a beauty with am lion. q
y beauty with ability, beauty destined
to be d brief inspiration to the man
whose idol she was. For his wife Char
10y Hoyt, the playwright, wrote the
Lost classical comedy of his career A
bntented Woman. Through it Caro-
kne Miskel Hoyt claimed rank as al
actress.
When Caroline Miskel first cams
pom the vision of genial Charley Hoy
Bhe was still a novice. He saw her II
Robert Mantells company, which was
then appearing in a play called The
Face in the Moonlight, a young slip o.
sgirl. with an Undesirable charm o.
and fascination of manner Tha
kshe enchanted Charley Hoyt il
\of slaves When Fate looseneC
kles it was to consign hin
Ks3
1t that Caroline Miske
Ed to- him the playwright
mind new play 1t was
he chaotic state thatprecede'
AS he sat in an orcheStrs
ching The Face in the Moon
lie golden haired novice in
character of Ruth, the sim
girl in A Temperance Town
slept that night Charlie!
met and engaged Caroline
his unwriten play. His 9th
uent with her came later. /
her appearance in A Tenn
in the midst of al
triumph. Before thu
the new beauty hat
" Hoyt. Ter charms
W in, From then
Hserious inspira
wife's ambition t.
ISIS inspired him t
rest satire he eve
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