Show I i 0 0 d 0 o O a 4 a ao 1 r 01 o a as a s Q r rt Sd Q a SUNDAY AUGUST 5 1923 1 o b bli li Before an Audience f Insane t Paupers the Once Charming Stage J Queen Makes Her Last Appearance I S in the Asylum I I j jJ J 4 c qi r Where She Sher r r 1 1 9 S r e w Yr Yra a 4 I f A Z rR rRt t D Dr De i a aj j jA S y 4 R wR t V 3 t t p i t I Neglected and W r t f S j I Forgotten by d y e the Public i That for Years I Ia She t tx a x z f r u iHEN goodby to hi his sisters tw s r and am THEN 1 hIS hit cousins comma and haunts hu his aunts Especially his hw COUSinS Whom ho he A reckons vp up by dozens His sisters filter and Ills his COUSinS and his h haunts aunts So sang charming young Sadie Mar Mar- Martinot Mar in th the role of Hebe as the curtain fell en n one of the first American per per- performances performances per performances of Gilbert and Sullivans Sullivan's opera comic opera Pinafore more than forty years ears ago The rhe enthusiastic applause that greet greet- greeted greeted erected ed her was as only the forerunner of many triumphs the she was was-to was to enjoy during the thelong thelong thone long reign upon which she sha was nas enter enter- enter ine mg as the Queen of one Broadway Broadway one ay-one of the most admired figures on the stage No one who ho saw her as Hebe lIebe or many in any of the more mor important roles she sho later filled with greatest success would halo ha believed that her farewell performance could ever be anything les less than a tre- tre tremendous tremendous tre tremendous an an ovation in which admIratIon for her artistry would bo d with sincerest regret that she shaw o 0 o be seen no More But like lIe many other queens of Broad Broad- Broadway Broadway way Broad way and even more mor important realms SadIe Martinot was as destined to make makes s her farewell fare 1 under condItions condition pathetically pathetically pathetically cally different from those under whIch she had won and held the th hearts of her subjects The seen scene of her farewell perform perform- performance performance performance ance was wa no great reat theater filled with lights and musk music applause and laughter It it was a grim scantily furnished room In a public asylum for the insane Jv v Instead of before the fashionable throng that one would have expected to shower flowers and compliments on this memorable occasion Sadie Martinot dIs- dIs dIsplayed displayed dis displayed played what hat remained of her remarkable talents for the last time to a little hUle hand hand- handful handful handful ful of insane poor paupers paupers poor unfortunates unfortunates unfortunates nates broken in m mind and fortune like herself and forced to live behind barred windows on the charity chanty of the state Her to tho fame tarn that had been hers as a queen of the American stage was made the other day in the dIsmal place in m which a few hours later she the dIed died the St St Lawrence State Hos Hos- HospItal Hos- Hos Hospital Hospital pital for the Insane in NY N Y The disease that wrecked poor SadIe Martinot's mind and left her for a time timea tima a derelict on the streets of Washington could never quite blot out the memories of her past triumphs She was always Imagining herself as she he had been In days gone young by-young by young beautiful beautiful exquisitely exquisitely gowned facing across the foot foot- footlights light foot lights row after row of admiring faces tha that t filled the th theater to its topmost sent seat In her ears continually rang the der ders dera of applause that drowned the th clos clos- closing ing tag notes of her songs She imagined she could even sense tense the fragrance of the flowers the ushers heaped into her arms The men and women around her were not insane paupers but some tome of her tal- tal talented talented tal talented fellow artists of tv twenty five five enty-five years ago She Sho frequently them byr by r name name-Dion name Dion Antonio Terry John Mason M on Marion Manola and a host of others equally well ell known in their day Witha With a smile smil she be would remind J them of the hit they had made together in m Pinafore or or Mine Pompadour When they replied not at all or only with insane ravings she the sadly shook her head Poor things she h thought the they v vale ate ale growing old and forgetful of th the good old days But Sadie Sadio Martinot could never forget not evenn even yen in n the mercy meru- mer l IWA IWAI L- L LI I I i J Jc s s sf r I V r av y v vt A Arrayed ed with these these pitiful rev reo re reminders k s r l of the b bk minders 9 t tD D glittering figure she once made on the SeS 1 y 3 tivi H r stage Sadie Martinot strode up and down S before her fellow unfortunates reciting rK 1 from plays that she had made madeth th 1 r a Y famous and lifting her quavering voice voice in n snatches of songs which it used to be thought no- no nol nobody l body Jy e y a body could sing so well as she Sometimes she moved e these wild eyed hearers to hysterical sobs At others when her voice cracked on some highnote high note they burst into derisive laughter But nothing they said or did could rob n q I Ix IA If x f her disordered brain of the consoling fancy that she was on the stage k kt t tb ai A once more surrounded by her actor friends of years ago and fascinating f- f ing a great audience with her beauty and talent Ala AlaNl Nl ful grasp of death that glorious time when her beauty and talent were the worlds world's constant toast and it seemed that everything ever life had to give could easIly be hers The attendants at the asylum were ere very gentle with the down broken actress and ond did everything they could to help her get some solace from living o 0 over ocr cr er the memories of former das days They brought withered flowers for her to twine In her gray hair and fill the broken broen bas bas- bas bas- basket basket ket het which she sho hung bung coquettishly over one arm From the hospital ragbags kind hands gathered faded ribbons and striPS of gay-colored gay paper to adorn the battered broomstick in which she the saw the glittering scepter of one of her comic opera roles role Arrayed with these thes pitiful reminders of the glittering figure she once made on the stage Sadie Martinot would stride u up and down before her fellow lunatics as majestically as her failing strength would permit With bony arm lifted m in ma ina ina a dramatic gesture she would repeat whole hole scenes scene from plays that she sho made famous or lift her quavering voice m in snatches of songs which it u used ed to be bethought bethought bethought thought nobody could sing so well nell as she Sometimes she moved those those eyed wild wild hearers bearers of hers her to hysterical sobs At others hen when her voice cracked hopeless hopeless- hopelessly ly on some ome hIghnote high note they burst into shouts of derisive laughter But nothing they said or did could rob Sadie Martinets Martinet's disordered brain of the consoling fancy that she tho was nas as on the stage again agam surrounded by her actor friends of long ago and fa fascinating a great audience with her beauty and talent Of all the stories the grim walls of the St S1 Lawrence Lavrence Asylum might tell if they could speak perhaps none would be more pathetic than this of Sadie Martinets Martinet's summoning the last remnants of her shattered brain bram power to re-enact re some of her great stage triumphs before an audience of insane paupers It was in just this wa way that she sho said goodby to the tho mado world world mado what was wa positively her last appearance on any stage Her ller tremulous voice had been trying to manage one of the rollicking tunes she had sung tung in Pinafore when sud sud- suddenly sud- sud suddenly suddenly denly the gayly decorated broomstick dropped from her hand and witha with a little cry she sho fell to the th floor They carried her to a hospital bed and she he never left It alive Born Dorn sixty-one sixty years ago in New York Sadie Martinot was educated in m a con con- convent convent con convent vent school While still at school she secured an engagement a as extra lady ledy In the company of Josh Hart woo who was then giving vaudeville in his Eagle Thea Thea- ter with after after- A pieces of a r burlesque nac nature na- na naj j c ture This was S Sin in September r 18 1876 6 and she shei i r S 1 nas MS paid 5 a week p hi k A A week eek 1 11 later 1 the k If- If Iff y star Maude Brans- Brans Branst Branscombe t f fell ill and t S combe she L ij she was finto Into the leading loading fir part l f part making goodat good at once jumping from chorus girl to prima donna in a nigh Later she was in the company with Mario Mano Aimee that wonderful French operetta singer and then played in the tho burlesque Chow Chow cs us Cupid in which she gave some remarkable imitatIOns imitations imitations of Aimee With the famous Bos Bos- Boston Boston int ton Museum company she appeared in m t Sancho Sancho Pedro in which Am Amy Ames nas as sta co-sta starred co-starred with her and in which she gave that great reat imitation of Aimee Almee singing Pretty as a Picture After that she sh went to England and andas nas as the original Katrina in Planquette's opera Rip Van Winkle coming bac back to New York to open the old Star Thea Thea- Theater Theater ter with Fred Leslie Leshe that wonderful operetta comedian in Vice Versa For tor a n time tima after that Miss Martinet pia played ed in drama and comedy and then In 1885 became the prima donna of the Casino under Rudolph Aronson Aronson's man man- man man-gement gement and sang Nanon for ter lerone er one hundred nights In the company with company with her were Pauline Hall Billee Bar Bar- Barlow low Ros Rose Beaudet William Wilham T Carleton Harry Standish Gis Gu LevIck and Francis while while Wilson while Heinrich Hemrich Conned after after- afterward afterward afterward ward impresario at the th Metropolitan Opera House was the th stage manager Her lIer health broke brok down and she the re- re re tired retired for three years coming bac back to the stage in The Mascot which she sh sang in sangin German After that Miss Martinot abandoned the singing stage and appeared in com com- comedy comedy com comedy edy playing leading parts in The Voy age ago Voyage of Suzette The Second Mrs Tan Tan- Tan His Excellency the Governor Mary and Jphn Mrs Temples Temple's Tele Telo- Telegram Telegram gram and others She was a delightful comedienne with fetching ways and comely in face and figure sa says lays s Charles Pike Sawyer the veteran dramatic critic Full of lifo and vivacity VI she the kept things moving fast when sho she was on the stage and her heru spirits were a delight Dion the th in inmany inmany inmany many of whose works she starred was one of her ardent admirers Clyde Fitch Charles Coghlan the romantic English star and Coquelin the great French acv ac- acOr ac actor tor Or were amon among her friends r Y w RO p ns n s 1 t yet t I J t zt t ti l lv v 2 w Y I Is s w 5 b r b 4 r t 1 tom If 9 f M e 3 g 7 yet I J IJ 4 i k q 5 a 3 rp f I 1 M f r i 4 g t f r rf Jt J o l t t t tJ J j Oel OelA S A of f f S S 54 5 r aft l r w 5 js S s- s ii r N r rt S o d 4 t I y 1 The tats Pauline Hall who who y died before she could save her friend Sadie Martinot from a paupers pauper's pauper fateS fate S Miss Martinet Martinot was married tWIce Iler Hel first husband was WIlS Max Figman the actor She divorced him hm and then be- be became became be became the the- theatrical the theatrical came the wife of Louis manager brother of Olga Neth- Neth Neth who created Sappho Her lIer sec sec- second second ond ec-ond ond matrimonial l venture was as soon toon dis- dis dis dissolved solved however because In her own words the she was tired of hearing Mr dIscuss English politics every morning at the breakfast table After years of strenuous us work on the stage tage and ol of 0 playing the th hostess or guest of honor in the gayest night life the day came when Sadie Martinet could no longer obtain leading roles From secondary parts sho sank to the th level of time time small vaudeville and then at last her name nam was no longer seen on any I theaters theater's program Nobody Nobody knew what had become of her until the the Washington police Identified an insane woman oman they had picked lucked up homeless and half starved as the once beautiful and talented queen of the stage The identification was made roads by byn bya bya n a scrap of paper in her pocket bearing the name nam of Pauline Hall a warm friend of Sadie Martinets Martinet's and also a great ige favorite in her day Pauline Hall died before she had time timeto to provide for her friend and Sadie Martinet suffering from from an incurable mental disease became n a charge of the State of New York She was as sent first to an asylum on Wards Ward's Island and later Ister to the institution at Ogdensburg Ogden burg where she ahe b died neglected died neglected and forgotten J A 4 f 1 tt Sadie Martinot the former idolized queen of the American stage and of New Yorks York's York gayest night life who died a II charity patient in inan inan inan insane when youth health an insane asylum health and beauty fortune and friends friend were all gone t a by all the thousands on both sides o of the footlIghts had been proud to call themselves her friends and admirers Sadie Martinets Martinet's fate fat is another tint tinting ing example of the tho fearful price the orld orid often ofton demands from those thosa it lifts to the highest fames fame She Sh brought rought to h her r theatrical al work a tremendous amount of enel Also she h brought an equal amount to the cham filled life that began for her each night after the the- the final final curtain fell Ml The combination was is was more than flesh and flood could bear and nd sho hl h has bas paId t r the penalty I |