Evening star., 1921-07-03
THE RAMBLER WRITES OF MEMORY BOXES,
WHERE STORIES OF THE PAST ARE KEPT

gle Mitchell, and her new dramatic
company, under the management ot
Mr.. Charles Abbott. in the beautiful
comedy entitled Little barefoot" 1t
is for the week beginning Decemb,r
/, but the year is pot given on tn"
bill, though l WHY wager for 'tiS
vulgar to beD-I will wager, a ten
cent nickel cigar against fifteen
cent five-cent soda that il Was 1870.
Maggie played "Lorle." Jane Eyre
"Fanchon" and Kay that week at
Albaugh's The next year sh" added
THE Little Maverick" TO her list OF
plays. The Rambler has sometimes
wondered whether Maggie Mitchell
or Lotta was the more popular with
Washington women, but he MUST keep
on wondering. or stop it. because
there is no way IT, determine the mat
ter, and no particular reason why II
should be determined. They were
very. very popular women, both lived
before the public for great many
years as years are numbered by moi-
tails. both lived to a ripe age. and
both died h0nOred and iamented by
thousands Of people. Thousands OF
you. reading these lines, supposing
that so many of you honor the
kind notice. will instantly rSc..
Lotta and Maggie Mitchell. Most
likely you do not need to recall te-sT,
never having forgotten them. IL,
perhaps tlte naIitS nave jhlI III ~
G1iet corner Of your brain and have
not been disturbed because you have
little occasion to use them.
Sit on the front porch and start 10
talk about Maggie Mitchell and Lotta
and your neighbors will look at you
in a plying way and say something
like this: Poor man. ! knew II b"
continued to buy this stuff that cost9
ten dollars a quart it would ahect ms
mind, Such a noble intellect. top
he -
Actresses? Nonsense. There never
were actresses by such names:
know them all, ! go to the movies
| every night! There weren't no a.
| lin. Doug Fairbanks. Bill Hart Buste:
| keaton, Ben Turpin, Mary Pickford,
| Marguerite Clark, the Talmadge girls
| and the. Gish sisters"
| Miss Mitchell came to Washington
annually for a long time. playing AT
Ford's. the National and Albaugh's.
/ Her company in 1890 and 1891, as
! shown by the programs, were Howard
! Gould. r. E. McClannin. Edward Po-
! land. George w. Deyo. sheridan 1up-
| Phil Mccarthy, Harry a. smith, ~;
H. Blackmore, W. +. McEichol and
| Misses Annie Chase. Ida Burroughs.
Jennie Carroll Carrie Francis. Emma
| Damon. Adele Clarke and Sarah Las
| relles. Her business manager WAS
! G. T Atwood: musical director, Prof;
otto Nogler: stage director. j. r.
! duncan: master Of properties. +. T
Johnson The next year. 1881, Charles
Abbott was her business manager:
Bury pascnt. press agent Cor preSS
REPRESENTATIVE, and w. +. MacNichol.
stage manager. Mr., Abbott was MISS
Nitchelrs husband, or Miss Mitchell,
the actress. WAS really Mrs. Charles
Abbott. and Mr. Abbott was the sec-
ond husband of Americas favorite
conc cdIenne."
MAGGIE MITCHELL died not long
vi ago To be exact, she died March
90 1918. when the news of her death
was published she had been forgotten
by all but the theater-goers of our
ecncration-,hat is. the generation
Mrs. Abbott, lived to be eighty-one
years old, and she kept fine summer
home at Etberon, y. j., and a New
York city home. She was born IN
New York began her stage career
there at Burton's Chambers Street
| Theater in 1851. when she was four
teen years old. She began starring IN
. 1853, and appeared in Washington ~
that year. and she visited TINS clt1
nearly every year until she retired
l from the stage. about 1888, when sh'
/ was fIfty-eight years old.
President Lincoln liked MaggT
, | Mitchell as an actress ana eSleefll'S
, her as a woman. During her visit
. there in the civil war period she wa.
/ received at the White House. That
word Received at the White House
. sounds too much like society talk.
Make it "she was welcome at the
White House" Maggie Mitchellt
mother and father were English-b born,
. / but long settled in this country be-
, fore Maggie came to them. Her nrst
husband was Henry Paddock OF
tcleve!and who was her manager for
:. long part of her career. They were
married III 1865 while Maggie was
playing in Troy. n. V Charles Ao.
l bott. whom she took as her SECOND
husband had been her leading man
before ie became her husband and
r manager Manager" is here used npf
: in the literal but in the theatrical
sense Maggie Mitchell, like all other
women never had a real manager.
The pictures of Clara Louise kel-
! logg and Maggie Mitchell. shown op
this page, We're made by Matthew q
I:rady. whom: all Washingtonians who
have reached years of discretion re-
member. The Rambler got the pho
tographs out of the collection of Mr..
Brady's. negatives. which is now
owned by his nephew. Levin c. Han
DIV. who liveI at 4s4 Maryland avenue
southwest. iLevin is brother OF VIII
Handy. who IS known by every Wan
derluster ip the district and by a
great lnan;' persons who are too rat
or too full of automobilitis to walk.