The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-02-21
HAPPY IN POVERTY
Former Theatrical Star Ends
Restless Search.
kaleidoscope Career Of May Yohe,
Once Petted Favorite Of Two Con-
tinents, Bids Fair to Have un-
conventional Ending.

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Searching for happiness, conven-
tionally and unconventionally, along
the gilt edges of the world, Madcap
May Yohe, once darling OF royalty,
has found it at last as the wife OF a
workingman amid humble surround
ings, herself a janitress. She has
found 1t in work, in service and In
self-effacement.
1t is as Mrs. John SHUTS that the
tempestuous theatrical star of yester-
day has added a bright chapter to the
life that led the American girl to an
English peerage at eighteen, into
troublesome days Of escapade, through
heartbreaking years and decline OF
fame, into marriage again and adven-
lures In far lands. All in the restless
search for love.
At the end of her kaleidoscope ca
reer she is now in Seattle, knowing
poverty and the meaning of toll, and
she says she's found what she's hunted
for a lifetime. in the man who loves
her and is good to her.
Twenty years ago May Yohe had
the theatrical world al her feet. She
became Lady Francis Hope, mistress
of the great blue Hope diamond, jewel
of i'll omen. AS such she vas the pet
ted ~favorite of aristocracy and of King
Edward VII.
Then she listened to the blandish-
ments of Capt. Putnam Bradlee
Strong, son Of the then mayor of New
York, and seeking happiness uncon-
ventionally went away with him. The
adventure brought only sorrow and
disappointment.
Striving to regain her lost glory,
she stood again before a London au-
dience in 1913. and London forgave
her and took her back into its heart
with a roaring welcome as In the older
days of song and dance and youthful
~allurements.
l Having accomplished that she be
came the bride of Capt. John SHUTS,
cousin of Gen. Jan SHUTS of Boer war
fame, and himself an officer in thai
war. She quit the stage and accom-,
| DNlleu MIN W oOulH AlIleus W oihS"
pore, to India, China and japan.
Coming to America a year or sc
ago, in the hope that he would get Q
commission in the British army, Cap
tain SHUTS went to work in a Seattle
shipyard when his application was
turned down and ready funds were no
available.
1t was there he developed infiuenZi
and the woman who had once swayet
the footlight world went to work a.
janitress to earn their daily bread. Al
worker and nurse she battled desper
ately for his life-and won
i "Won the greatest happiness / have
ever known" she said, las well as tn;
life of my dear husband"
When Captain SHUTS resumed worl
in the shipyards after his illness h
"banishedr May Yohe to keeping hous'
In their one-room apartment, wher'
they are living today.
Their financial straits were explaine'
by Mrs. SHUTS as due to red tape tina
~Dprevented access to estate moneys
and to the fact that Captain SHUTS,
Judge and barrister in South Africa
knew no one in America.
when Jack BECAME i'll they aske
me jokingly at the shipyards IL
wanted a job. l accepted it s%eriousl,
The only place open was for a jan
tress, and l took 1t.
Things are brighter now. / sti
!, have my Jack, we're going to &c
some money soon, and If we don't G
to England Wen start a little chicke
Ell ranch near the city here. Meantime
D what more could one wish forT'