Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-11

frequently in the company of Miss Burke.
| led to the belief in New York that he was
the Marquis of Anglesey. who is alleged
to have displeased British nobility by pre-
fering Miss Burke for a wife to the Prin-
cess Victoria Patricia a niece to King Ed
ward.
The publication of stories associatin the
name of Cary with Miss Burke was so dis
tasteful that Mr. Cary departed from the
Shoreham yesterday and hurried to New
York. where he Is now registered at the
Waldorf Astoria. Cables from London also
announce that the Marquis of Anglesey and
his mother, Lady Alexander Paget, are both
in London, where they have, like Miss
Burke, vigorously denied that there Is any
matrimonial engagement between the two
wealthy young people. 1t turns out that
MIR. Cary was simply one of Miss Burke S
English friends of long standing. who hap
pened TO cross the ocean on the same boat
with the pretty operate star.
On Errand Of Mercy.
It also develops that instead of visiting
Washington on a matrimonial trip, Mss
Burke, who was born in this city. came
here on an errand OF mercy. making a hur-
rIed visit across the ocean from her luxur-
ious home in London to the modest but
charming little two-story house at 1913 ID
street northwest, within a stones throw of
the Baltimore and Ohio depot to visit the
bedside of her dying uncle. Mr.. Robert L..
Beatty. who had been employed for years
as a bookbinder in the government print
ing office. Mr.. Beatty died on March 2,
and Miss Burke has remained here since
then helping to arrange the details whereby
his mother, Mrs. Lucille Beatty-the eighty
four-year-old grandmother of the pretty
young Washington girl who has attained
such fame in London-will be comfortable
in her old age. Having completed these ar
rangements, Miss Burke left the city this
morning for New York whence she will sail
on Tuesday for London.
Miss Burke is scarcely twenty-one years
old and one of the stage beauties Of Eng
land. She came into prominence there in
the winter of 10000. 1t proved shortly aft
erward that the welcome little American
invader" was Washiugtonian, whose
father used to do a funny vaudeville stunt
with a donkey. Although she has never
played in the United States, she was born
in Washington of American parents. Her
father is William E. Burke of the former
team of Burke and Andrews, who appeared
in the variety theaters with highly anus
ing bncking donkey. In spite of her pleas
ant experience in England she Is proud that
she Is a real American girl and at the
Prince of Wales Theater. where she was
first billed as Mamie Rookie feller. she good
naturedly thanked the management for al
lotinR her that essentially American name.
1t was just seven years ago that she went
to London to cultivate her singing voice. In
1902 she made her debut I'm Vienna singing
what were INTENDED 10 De catchy songs in
the music halls She then toured In Hun
gary, Russia, Germany and France, and on
her return to London was engaged for a
month at the Pavilion bur ultimately STAYED
there twelve weeks. It was Beauty in
the Christmas pantomime of Beauty and
the Beast at Glasgow and Sheffield that
she made her first appearance on the regu-
lar stage. The British press was very kind
10 her. Somehow or other her little hit
reached the ears of George Edwardes in his
London offices and she was sent for She
was then and there engaged for the long
run of the School Girl" in which Miss
Edna May appeared at the Prince of Wales
Theater. Throughout England she Is known
as Billie" Burke. When asked Whv In
view Of the fact that she was about as fem
mime as a Vassar College commencement
said. with a laugh: We'll / happened to
come Of a literary family. Ny grandmother
was one of the first women TO write on the
question of slavery That is why [ pre-
sumo. they took IL into their heads to call
me Ethelberta. AS soon as | grew old
enough to think of it / wished to cbon il
down to Ethel. Unfortunately however
my best chum was named Ethel and the
Billie came about as survival of the fit
test, and-'there you are YOU knew az T
r Hunuey says in Three Little Maids the
English musical comedy which You saw in
Washington last season."
Miss Burke's Uncle.
Mr.. Robert l.. Beatty Miss Burke's uncle
was i'll with consumption for some time
in his home 12S street. There he lived
with his mother and fine old coiored
nanny. almost white, who served the fam
lily. This nanny. Annie Weaver was I'M
I'll three years ago with the family of the
late DR. Stone. who died at the Stone man
sion at the northeast corner OF 18th and +
streets. the son of the DR.. Stone who was
President Lincoln's physician at the time
OF the great martyrs death. NANNY
Weaver has known the Beatty family for
forty years, and they were always anxious
to secure her services but did not succeed
until after the death of DIR. Stone The
late Mr.. Beatty's mother. who is the mother
of Miss Burke's mother was originally
Miss Lucille Flood, and was bora IN Alex
andrIa, Va, eightyfour years ago. The
Beatty family operated stage coach from
Alexandria to GAINESVILLE. Ohio, where the
Burkes lived before "Billie's" success In
England induced her father and mother to
take up their residence in London. Two
other sisters of billie reside In New York