Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-06-12 | Page 34 | Mary Will Not Come

MARY WILL NOT COME. j;, -i lime, de Navarro BegretfuHy Dt-Ji clines to Read in America. In tho Paris edition of the New Tort! K Herald Is the following: Mr Jaiuj V.'.$ jC' Morrlssoy recently came to Kngland vlti'i "I a loiter lo Mine, de Navarro (Ml?? Ad- ji derson) bearing the signatures of Cartf-T' nal Gibbons. Bishop l'otter. Mr. W K.1: Vanderbllt. Mr. George J. GouiJ airf i' fi score or eo more notable American ai- ij (i zens. This letter suRsested that "or j Mary" should undertake a tour of U ) United States, giving readings from poiUi and held forth as an allurement that he I prospective manager. Mr. Nelson Robins, i1 or his rcpresontath e. Mr Morrlssy, V .' would cheerfully agree lo a part of Ittii P gross receipts arising from each p-'5: S formance in every city of the I'niirt k States beliiK dovoted to charity. jt U Nothing wns said ao to the dlsposiitelj E of tho balance of the receipts In the Ici-JsC tor. tho chief feature of which, hOT.'cvtrSjBj Avas its list of slRiintures. "JW In addition to the names already fivtn f were those of Senator and Mrs. Chaur.-f coy M. Depow, Mr. Russell Sape. Gca 1 and Mrs. Nelson .. Mlle-a. Mrs. Clarenw , Mackay. Mr. John D. Orhiunlue, Mayor George B. McClellan. Archbishop Farlt), Mr. Bourko Cockran, Mr. JS-Jward Lc-terbach Lc-terbach and Go-. B. B. Odell ' Tho appeal, backed by AVhat llr Mor- rlssey calls "all that is most c-mlnrnt 1b j the social, artistic, diplomatic, political -, and religious Avorld of tho United States,' : could not fail to ovokt? a re-snonw, irA j Madame do Navarro hns written a letter, beginning thus. "With a deop sense of my iinworlbl-nces iinworlbl-nces of tho honor bestowed upon rae by. i so many of America's most distinguish! men. both in the religious and secular t world, and with an intense ft-ellrgr of , gratitude for their kind thought? aw ) Avoids. I am Htlll compelled by conAnclwa not to deA'late from my resolution, rce i llfteen years ago. not again to enter Into the rush and excitement of public lu "It Is with real regret that I feel Impelled Im-pelled to decline this unlauo reQ'jejt. signed by ho many whom I admire ium eisteem." ? In conclusion Madame de Navarro r- 1 peats that bovond a few local perform-, ances for the poor, without rcrcunsraWu to herself, she never considered tha possibility pos-sibility of a professional return to tt stage. .