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FoS. MISKEL HOW. I
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Kentucky, the land of brave
and stalwart men of high-spir
ited, beautiful women, has just
Buffered, in the death of Caroline
Miskel Hoyt, the loss of one of
her most beautiful daughters.
Mrs. Hoyt’s death cuts short a
dramatic career which bade fair
to be one of exceptional brillian
cy. She had little or no status
as an actress until her talented
husband, Charles Hoyt, wrote
for her “A Contented Woman,’'
a satire on the woman’s rights
question as scathing as ‘‘Pina
fore.” In this play he depicted
with a master hand, though
most comically, the ill-effects
upon her home and happiness
that befell a lady who in Colora
do, where women have the
right to vote, suffered herself to
be made a candidate for office
against her husband and morti
fied and humiliated the one she
had sworn to love, honor and,
obey, by defeating him. In writ- 1
ing this play Mr. Hoyt designed
the character of the fond, though
high spirited and foolish lady,
for his wife. A well-known West-'
ern critic said that ‘Asmodeus
lift the roofs off the houses in
Paris and showed us what was
going on in them/’ Mr, Hoyt
has in an imitative way taken
down the front wall of his parlor I
and given us a lesson in domes j
ticity as striking as it is charm
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Another critic writing of “A
Contented Woman” said: “It
is a sermon play with a lecson i
that should be inculcated in |
every well-regulated household/
Bitter pills are often sugar
coated to make them palatable.
Hoyt has environed his sermon
with a few, but its result is]
none the less certain because it
is received with smiles and
laughter.”
Still another wrote: “Last
night I was unintentionally the
recipient oj a high moral lesson
through the instrumentality of
Charles Hoyt’s ‘A Contented
Woman,’ as was the girl who
went to her druggists and asked,
‘Can you give a person castor
oil without her tasting it.
“ ’Certainly,’ responded the
compounder of pills and por- j
tions.
“ ‘Take a chair and I’ll wait'
on you presently. In a littlei
while he returned saying, ‘lts!
quite warm this evening. Won’t
you have a glass of scda water? |
■ She would, and did. By and by
she grew impatient and asked 1
‘When are you going to give
me my castor oil?’
■ “ ‘Why, you’ve taken it,’ re
sponded the chemist. ‘I gave it
to you in the soda water.’
! “ ‘Good gracious !” ejaculat- i
ed the girl, ‘ I didn’t want it ]
myself. I wanted it for my ;
grandma.’ I didn’t need the .
sermon, but I got it just the I ]
'same, and I can’t help thinking ,
that it would be well if many of i
our pulpit orators were to instil I 1
their moral lessons as pleasant-'.
ly as Hoyt has his ” |
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J How graciously Mrs. Hoyt j i
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played her part in “A Content
ed Woman” was never fully
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known until she temporar
ily abaudo ned the stage and an
other undertook to portray it.
The other was an actress of rep
; utation and of years of experi
ence, yet she failed utterly to
give it the ease, the grace and
finish Mrs. Hoyt imparted to It
apparently without effort,
Hers was the art which con
cealed art.“ She isn’t acting,” I
heard a lady say one night to
her escort, “she is just talking
and conducting herself as though
she was in her own parlor.” The
lady was unaware that she was
giving Mrs. Hoyt praise which
would have been incense to Sa
rah Siddons or Sarah Bernhardt.
As an actress Mrs, Hoyt had
the reputation of being a hard
woman to please, and when
John B. McCormick became her
business manager and press
agent he was warned by a friend
to keep as far away from her as
possible, but he found her one
of the most charming and grate
ful of professional women.'
The receipts of “A Contented
Woman” in this city for the
two weeks it was played here
with Mrs. Hoyt as its star were
almost $13,000, and it was
played in opposition to “The
Geisha,” John Drew, “The Sign
of the Cross” and other first
class attractions.
The critics of Philadelphia
treated her very kindly, and
several of them recognized the
I promise of great dramatic abil ty
in her acting. One night she
sent for McCormick to come I a< k
on the stage, and when he re
sponded to her summons • she
thanked Jum most cordially for
his labors in her behalf, saying,
“Claude Melnotte speaks of a
queen who could be thankful to
a poet who had told nations that
she was beautiful. What grati
tude can I express to you for
having made the people of Phil
adelphia believe that I am tai-
onted.” McCormick expressed
his pleasure at her appreciation,
and said, “It is you who have
made them believe this fact. I
merely asserted it.” She laughed
and replied, “If you are going
to say pretty things like that to
me I 'll have to tell Mr. Hoyt and
put him on his guard.”
McCormick, who is now in
town, says: “I never found her
I hard to please, and after I had
left the employ of her husband
| she frequently manifested her
gratefulness for my efforts in her
i behalf. She was a grateful worn-
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an, and they are as infrequent
j as angel's visits—in the dramat
ic profession. The great charm
of her beauty was its daintiness
llt was as delicate as that of an
exquisite bit of Dresden bisque
When one saw her he felt that
for women such as she silks,
velvets and fine laces were the
only wear. As Macbeth says,
‘She should have died hereafter,’
for in my own mind I feel satis
fied that had she lived she would
i have been the daintiest comedi
enne the American stage has
known ; as peculiar in her art as
Maggie Mitchell, who never had
a rival nor a successor.”
Pity she died so soon.—Me
garg ee , in Ph i lad el ph i a limes.
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Wishing to close up my old
business of Crouch A Watson,
also of J. T. Crouch & Co. I
must insist that all parties in
debted to either firm must cal
and settle, or the accounts wi)
be placed in the hands of a col
lector with instructions to col
lect. Respectfully, ‘
J. T. Crouch. ’
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