Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1898 — NOTED ACTRESS DEAD. [ARTICLE]

NOTED ACTRESS DEAD.

Margaret Mather Suddenly *O-u-trow While Playing In Ghnrlesion, W. Va.—Dlea In a Few Hours. Charleston, W. Va., April B.—Margaret Mather, the actress, played her last death scene here Thursday. While playing the cave scene in the fourth act. of “Cytnbeline” in this city Wednesday night she collapsed and was, carried off the stage in an unconscious condition and never regained consciousness. .She died at five p. m. Thursday of convulsions caused by acute Bright’s disease. Miss Mather’s parents live in Detroit? No arrangements have been made tor the funeral. 1 [Margaret Mather, as she Was known on the stage,, was Margaret Finlayson, and .ahe.was_l)arn In Tilbury., Ont..it> ,18.52. but was raised-in Detroit, Mich. Her father, John Finlayson, Is still living in Detroit. Margaret passed her childhood among, squalid surroundings not in any way tending to divert her attention toward the stage. After she left home a half-grown girl, she engaged as dishwasher in the Russell house. Having a chance'some time later to join a barnstorming troupe she availed herself of it, 'with the result that in 18.80, wh.ie in New Yaak, she attracted the attention of Manager James Hill,‘who persuaded her to take a cour.-e in a training school. After two years of study i.t the part of Juliet she made her debut in that character at McVicker’s theater, Chicago, in 1882. Miss Mather had been twice married, her first husband being Emil Haberkorn, an orchestra leader. She was divorced from him, and shortly nfur she married Gustav Pabst, tie ..Milwaukee brewer. Tills venture, 100, was ;i failure, with-the result of another divorcr. , Her latest venture was a magnificent pr< auction of Cymbeline, under the management of Bert C. Whitney, of Detroit.!