The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-12-27
BY ISLANDER
Miss Georgia Cayvan Is
Dying Of Love.
DRIFTING OUT OF LIFE
And Of the World She Loved
And Was Loved By.

The New York World says: Miss
Georgia Cayvan, once one Of the best
known and loved and most admired ac-
tresses in New York is dying Of love,
Not one Of the ordinary loves which
most people VIII think of-love Of home
or man or money-but of something far
above these
Love Of her good name.
Beggared Of that ny a cruel Islander her
heart broke and now, out Of sight and
sound Of the world that praised her,
loved her, believed in her, she is drifting
out Of life. blind, mentally unsound, pur-
sued to the last by the Hes which wreck
ed her life and destroyed her mind.
For IN the sanitarium whittier she has
Lately. been taken that she may have per-
feet quiet and care she is tormented by
visions Of those who slandered her. She
sees them on every hand, calling at her
hooking her, revihng her, repeating again
and again the cruel words that made the
world turn and stare at her.
Georgia Cayvan was born IN Maine IS.
1853. and when no more than six years
Old showed dramatic talent She was
fond Of reading out loud, and so much
feeling and action did she throw into the
work that even as q child people enjoyed
listening to her.
She was graduated from the Boston
School Of Oratory when mere girl and
her first appearance on the stage was as
Hebe in the first "Pinafore" company or
ganized in the United States.
From the beginning her Individuality
was noticeable, and her personality, a
far more subtle quality, with its magnet
ism, strength, cool-headedness and warm
hea-tedness made her a favortte with
the public and those in her own profess
sion.
Whatever the audience sees upon the
stage, 1t is assured THAI the most bitter
rivalries and jealousies are in existence
behind the scenes.
But never in the twenty years Of her
stage career. was there an actor or &C
tress, q stage manager or "supe" who
said or did anything that could have as
sailed Miss Cayvan's character or that
wounded her self respect.
It was reserved for a gently reared So
ciety woman, misled doubtless by false
witness, to do that.
From the time she was fourteen years
old Georgia Cayvan supported her sister
and mother Not only this, she gradu-
ally sa we'd enough money to buy a house
and had laid by enough to live on when
she shomd be worn out in her work Of
amusing people 1T would be hard to ex-
plain the temptations, the trials and OBJ
stacIes that stand between a young girl
and a success which shall be free from
any. cause for which she might blush
MIS- Cayvan was in private life, as on
the stage. al that a woman should be.
And she was one. to whom goodness was
q NEGATIVE quality She liked pretty
clothes. and even in mems dress there
was something essentially femignine
about this strong. healthy creature who
loved life and who out Of the abundance
of her vitality gave pleasure to all who
saw her act.
Miss Cayvan's first appearance IN New
York was in Hazel Kirl1e," at the Mad
ison Square theater, where she played as
Dolly Dutton.
Her next success, IN MAY Blossom"
gave her confidence to make the stage
her profession, and from that time until
1896. when she went abroad for her health.
she was before the public in one success
ful play after another, and she might be
stiI acting for us had she not been the
victim of SANDER
Miss Cayvan was acting at the Lyceum
IN 1892, when she met Oliver Sumner
Teal. the man to whose wife, it is said,
she owes her present condition.
Mr. Teal was introduced to her be-
hind the scenes by an actor after the
play. and it is natural to believe that he
admired the actress who charmed every
one by her manner.
Quite unconscious of her danger, Miss
Cayvan gave all of her energies to max
ing her life a success. She had done so
wei in her early days that Frohman
made her his leading lady. and in Sweet
Lavender" Squire Kate" THE Wife"
Americans Abroad" 'Trilby" and the
"Amazons." she showed the diversity of
her talents. her wide sympathy with and
her deep tuition into the lives Of other
( people.
In London, where she played. she was
as much thought Of as in her own home.
and nothing touched her more than TO
hear stranger say, why, there's Geor-
/ gia Cayvan,' when she was in Paris one
day.
The embodiment Of health. natural
grace. refined tastes. she Influenced all
who met her Tt was largely through
her that the Lyceum became stock
company and increased its importance.
In the midst Of this happiness and good
fortune fell the blow that wrecked her
! life
For awhile Miss Cayvan did nothing.
What was there for her to do? Thrust
/ into the position which is the saddest a
woman can fan To, there was no court.
+ no law provided, in which she might de-
+ fend herself
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