The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-11

light and a grace of the playhouses not
extremely artistic and serious, is to re-
turn to the stage, says New York ex-
change.
She is not to play the first part that
the managers will offer to her, bu- the
first one that will please her. She has
said so in a letter to A H. Chanberlyn
OF the Herald Square theatre, that is
a model of theatrical precision.
He expects her to sign at in the af-
terncon today, at her return from At
lantic City, a contract to play here in
September in a new opera not yet
named. She will sign it if the part that
he has to offer be agreeable to her.
In THE Cadet Grip nothing that The
manager could give was to her taste.
She has the faculty to be fastidious,
even if the hermitage at Potts Point, in
Sydney, Australia, the work among the
disinherited in the poor districts in
London that she accomplished fervently
in the company of her mother in law,
the funds that Lord Francis Pelham
Clinton Hope could gather-lords may
live, like nations, on their debts for e
long, long tfere-have become in,possi-
biz for varied reasons
New York is to hear her sing, to see
her act in the costumes that We're al
wavs made for her only, agf'in. The en-
its distinct dates She was an iron
workers danghter born at Bethlehem,
in Pennsylvania. in 1865.
Her mother the granddaughter OF
4'EOCGSCanI ln1GtSfer IN INDIANA, i.d1 I1e
pride of aboriginal ancestry. Miss Yohe
took lessons in singing from Conrad
behrens and from Etelka Gerster, be-
cause the attendants of the little
praised the quality of her coItralto
voice.
She ran away from home in 1885 to be
a, chorus girl in Rice'S Surprise Party"
Prettiwit of "a Crystal Slipper in the
Chicago opera house. Pretty, vivacious,
singularly captivating with her black
eyes, one of which has the cast that
made Rejane'S fortune, Miss Xohe ran
away from her managers.
She played in ssU and T. in San Fran
cisco, and there gossip married her to a
son of General Williams. She played in
Boston, and there gossip married her to
John Mason, then leading player in the
Boston Museum. She played in SeW
York, and here gossip married her to
Wall street broker, a Chicago million
aire, a Massachusetts senator.
Gossip had more occasions to be alb
Surd about May Yohe than about many
other persons. She was so exquisitely
diSdainful of gossip. In 1892, while she
was playing in the Garden Theater,
Francis Pelham Clinton saw her, fell in
love with her and persuaded her to try
to conquer London.
She appeared there at the Lyric the
ater in Little Christopher Columbus"
was presented to the Prince of Wales,
became a favorite, was the celebrity of
1.-THE Lady Slavey" and Little Dick
Wilmington"
Second son of the Duke of Newcastle
and poor Francis Pelham Clinton added
to his name that of Hope. in order to
inherit a fortune left by his grandmoth-
er, wife of a diamond merchant of Ans
sterdam. Then, in the Hampstead
church, in 1893, May Yohe became his
wife.
Five years afterward he was a. bank
rupt, with liabilities of $3,269,71 The
items of it on record in the English
bankruptcy court agitated the small
talk of the clubs for week. They were:
Eating and drinking, 1926, 900; backing
the Lyric and other theaters, 100000;
betting and gambling, $350,00O; money
spent on behalf of other people, $780, 600;
cost of raising money, $4,000; living ex-
penditure, 100000; minor debts, $4,000.