The Present Mrs. Boucicault.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1614, 21 January 1886, Page 2

The Present Mrs. Boucicault.

Says'lbe' Itohdotf JBUgafo :-^r|' The particulars are . to hand concerning Miss Thorndyke, who, although Mrs Dion Boucicault is living m Enaland, is is alleged to have married 'Mr 1 Boucicault iii Australia. It appears that' five years ago a- lady named, Tisda^e kept a boardinsj-house m Wesb if Twent^- third* street, New ; York. # Her hospitalities were shaded by ? a number of professional people. Ainbhg these was an> '.actress well known and popular oib>.the Jqcal stage. Mrs Tidsdale had <i daughter bj a former marriage, named Josephine' Kent, a pretty and young girl, whp was possessed- by a rage for going' dn^'the stage. Her friend_ was engaged ~ for & s^riesyof. performances. in 'Our BoardingHouse' at Niblb's Garden and took' MissKent, With her on the opening' night. When the* time came to ring the. curtain up it was discovered .that no ballet girl had been engaged, for the. important part of the boarder j w lib is : called iii to ipreyent the .fatal number of thirteen sitting at table. The Btage manager suggested f tQ ftie ,actress that ;her(.young friend might' oblige fchemubj.g9ing.ion, and the opportunity was aceepted^ with rapture. Miss Kent made her dp^utthai week as the fourteenth at tablej and 'be- • gan to dream, of ; herself as a rival of Miss -Mary, Anderson and Miss Clara Morris. 1 • fier'abtre^s friend "found a name for i her out ■, of a |ayourtte novel. She was for ! 'the' r< tiieatrß Louise Thorndyke; and, after a probationary career at the Madison-square and elsewherl&^sgnfe i *.to__Australia as. l»\dih% lady jvith Dipn Boucwault. She" is^.now reported to ha^^mwried him." I '-"I •> n-4 z * *•'*'