The San Francisco call., 1906-08-10
'ComicO Opera OueenSkidoo
With Her Leading Tenor.
.Lottie Kendall Elopes
From Portland With
Millar Bacon.
Each Leaves a Spouse

TN Rom Portland last evening came
2: the announcement that an evening
newspaper Of that city reported
The elopement of Lotue Kendall,
; comic opera prima donna, and MiIlar
Ea-con, tenor. with whom she recently
concluded a professional tour of tho
N0rthwestern circuit. As the couple are
wei known in san Francisco stagedom
ard as each Of them deserted legal
SPOUSE, the story was the main topic OF
! e3ssip along the local Rialto
IN private life Lottie Kendall is the
wffe Of Ed Seamans. who managed the
company which bore her title until it
'olsbanced about month ago in the
CEegop metropolis. The partner of her
nlEht Is the husband OF Myrtle Vane, a
singing ingenUe. Seamans has a daugh-
= teL,' Nina, who is almost as old as her
lstepmother. and Mrs. Bacon has ten
= gear-old stepsOn. II is believed that
the elopers fed TO Denver and are
members Of q stock company there.
= When the Lotue Kendall comic opera
company came 10 grief in Portland the
members remained there about two
weeks, while Seamans tried TO get them
. al engagement here and elsewhere.
3 ff--AEA ne Nlltu from od4L Lane lily
that he had secured a house and noti-
fed them TO join him there his wife
and Bacon left the others and started
Tor Chicago, whence they went TO Den
Yer.
The Kendall company was a steady
1noney-loser from its inception and alb
eorbed' all the earnings the stars hus-
band made as manager of the Hotch-
kiss Theater, Los Angeles. Stage peo-
PIE here, who know the woman, unhes-
itatingly opine that his loss of fortune
-alfd prestige had much TO 90 with her
p abandonment Of him. Several weeks
ago he abruptly vanished from Los An
geles, leaving a weeks salary due the
kOlb and Dill company, then playing at
the Hotchkiss, and when next heard Of
was with his wife in Portland. After
" naming there a few days he came TO
Esn Francisco and vainly endeavored to
book his stranded organization, and
might have succeeded If investigation
- OF some Of his claims had not proved
them 10 be false He returned to Los
Angeles, but was so beset by his credi-
tors that he hastened to Salt Lake.
A1Lar Bacon and his wife were mem
bers OF the Central Theater DRAMATIC
stock company during the season of
10000, and both were rated as clever
people and devoted 10 each other. They
went north and did dramatic work in
several cities, then drifted into vaude-
vile and finally Joined the Kendall
Do company and toured with il. A few
days ago application for an engage
uent- was received from Mrs. Millar by
the present management Of the Central.
She stated that her husband was un
willing to leave Portland, but, much as
she desired 10 be with him, there was
no employment there for her. Now
comes the statement that when he
eIoped sne was seriously i'll in a Port
land hospital, and that he took all her
money with him.
When he was here Seamans made
such inconsistent statements and repre-
sentstions as 10 amaze some of the
shrewd people he attempted 10 deal with
Among other glaring falsehoods ut
tered. by him was one TO the effect that
he retained control OF the Hotchkiss.
His erratic conduct was then ascribed
TO his eagerness TO secure a San Fran
cisco opening for the woman who was
since run away from him, but the
VViseacres now believe that il was
azlsed by his discovery of her affair
n Bacon.