The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-01

by those who best knew them in their
Oregon home, and the papers were loud
n their denunciation of his act. Mean
time Mrs Miller came out in a COM
munication addressed to the public, and
worded with as keen a sense of irony
as could well be Denned- While admit
ting the truth of all that had been pub
ljshed, she held that the public had
nothing to do with Mr.. Miller, except
as a poet, and that poets are different
from other people and their lives must
be judged, # at all. by a different
standard Listen to this: Mr.. Miller
felt that he was gifted, and his mind
being of a fine poetic structure, and his
brain very delicately organized, the
coarse and practical duties of ptovid-
ing for family and the ANNOYANCE Of
children conflicted with his dreams and
his literary whims."
Joaquin went to England. For time
he was lonized, after a fashion, in
London. We are told he affected a very
broad brimmed hat, a red shirt a la
Garibaldi, and tucked his trousers into
his htSn bOOtlegs, when the demands
of pol te or rather fashionable society
prescribed the usual modish black and
white.
During the poets sOjourn in the Eng
fish metropolis as a cOmpatriot he was
made much of by the American colony
there, and at some function given in
honor of Rose Eytinge. then on her re-
turn from Egypt with her husband
George Butler, when he had filled
term as our consul. Miller was pre-
scented to her. and it appears that dur
ing Miss Eytinge's stay n London they
met at many such gatherings. so that
they became well acquainted.
On Miss Eytinge's return to America
she emerged from retirement and again
resumed her profession and accepted
the leading position in the celebra ted
Union Square company. where her sue
ceSses were many and so pronounced
that she began starring tour in her
famous roles in Led Astray.' Rose
Michel" THE Geneva Cross" and
other such plays as then were the
great attractions of New York Her
success artistically and financially was
exceedingly great. She was grand
artist, her fame being then at its ze-
NTH. When Miss Eytinge made her
second visit to the Pacific coast. l then
managing the Newmarket theatre in
Portland, Ore, and knowing what a
strong attraction the lady would he for
an engagement there, l arrived in San
francisco and lost no time in calling
on her to lay my proposition before her
regarding Portland visit. I might re-
mark here that ] had the honor of pre-
Vlously meeting and was well aCquaint-
ed with Miss Eytinge, as I PLAYED the
juvenile and character leads I'm ber
T.
MIA. Having talked over our matter of
business, 1 was desired to call back on
the stage at the Baldwin theatre, where
she was then playing. that night.
dld so, and during an intermission
while engaged in conversation a Young
girl, L should think not more than Is
years old, addressed a question to Mss
EyunSe concerning some ma tier of cos
tune, and getting a reply departed. I'M
medlately MISS Eytnge turned toward
me, asking if knew who the girl was
Replying in the negative. she informed
me that she was the daughter of orr
famous Joaquin Miller. and that having
discovered who she was. and but a bal
let girl IN the theatre, having met her
father in London. she on that account
took quite an interest in her welfare
and sought plans for her advancement
Miss Eytinge knew that l was en-
Saging some additional members for
my company at Portland, and she there
and then pleaded with me to give Maud
Miller chance TO play little parts and
begin her nOvitiate as an actress in the
profession. Her earnestnesS and elo-
quence prevailed, and Miss Maud Miller
was duly enrolled as a member of my
company.
Meantime Miss Eytinge had filed her
Portland engagement. Maud Miller SET
tied down TO regular work in my stock
company. She was most ambitious and
had the proper temperament for an
actress, being Economically idealistic
and of ferVid Imagination. Her prog
resS gave much promise. Meantime
years had already passed since JOAQUIN
deserted his family. Maud Muller and
her younger brother had never known