The Washington times., 1904-03-13

Iage green with the boys and girls
rouping across II in the starlight
Lieutenant John LesmO.r Gordon,
shot through the leg. walked fifteen
miles through the enemy's country with
dispa tches." was all the paper said
But day after day as little mentions
of the Highlander kept appearing, she
remembered more and more Of his hand
some look. as a Rugby boy, he danced
with the village girls on night of long
ago.
Nina Harrington now had house in
New York. She had a house at Nara
gansstt Pier, where she had lived sew
eral Summers with Anna Robinson
Goes Back to Europe.
Her cottage at Swampscott. Mass,
and its luxurious furnishings made a
distinct sensation along the North
Shore, where her costumes, trappings
and yachts made her the most talked
about woman of the Summer colony for
several seasons
Her last appearance in Boon was at
the Columbia, where she appeared in
support of Marie Dressler. In New York
her last appearance was during the time
she was a member of The Hall Of
Fame company at the New York The
alter.
A few months ago Fanny Ward, hav-
ing become the richest woman in Eng
land through the death of her husband.
advised Nina Harrington to return to
Europe to be near her family. She
went to London under contract with
George Edwardes to open in The Or
child"
The night that she was to appear
John Lesmoir Gordon. lieutenant OF the
First Life Guards Of London. received
| a note, presumably from Mrs Fanny
Ward Lewis. telling him to be sure and
see Nina Harrington in The Orchid.
that night. The name stuck strangely
in his memory, but he could not place il.
As the curtain went up the soldier
leveled his glass at the stage and as
he caught sight of the handsome lace
Of Nina Harrington, more beautiful and
womanly. but the same face that he
had admired years before at the village
in York. his exclamation of surprise
attracted attention In nearby boxes.
WEEDS Her First Love.
At the same time Nina Farrington's
eyes caught sight of a brown. sun
tanned face in the audience. a face that
was strangely familiar and which spoiled
her acting for that nigH-. In fact her
dismal failure that nrst evening prob
| aoly resulted in her decision that the
part she had come 10 England to take
! in The Orchid was not fitted 10 her
| and she did not again appear.
But when she left the theater that
night, among those waiting at the stage
| door was John Lesmoir Gordon. Of the
First Life Guards. and the warm grasp
of his hand was the friendliest she had
known since her return to England.
Miss Harrington cancelled her contract
and was approached by the management
of the Moulin Rouge in Paris. and ac-
| cepted a part in one of the principal
reviews running there.
Her romantic marriage to Lieutenant
/ John LesmOir Gordon. of the First Life
/ Guards, and the select little reception
afterward at the home of Mrs. Fanny
/ Ward Lewis. at which some of the best
known artists in London were present,
was the next bit of information that
came to the New York friends of the two
/ women who for so many years have
been well known to theatrical people
and the public in most American cities.
Mrs. Nina Harrington Gordon and her
husband viii reside in a pretty villa at
Lea, in Kent. Lieutenant Gordon has a
fortune of his own, and Miss Earring
ton herself has accumulated considera-
BILE property.
Fanny Ward. in spite of her millions.
has come back to the stage and revels
in fine clothes, and won the prize
for the best-dressed woman of the cor
onation year. She prophesies that Miss
Harrington will not long be content
10 lead the humdrum life of a matron
and that she will soon follow her back
into the fascinating glow Of the foot
! lights.