. card and asked her todine with him after the performance. She accepted the invita-tion but when she came down to the reception room she alsodiscovered there an old friend she had not seen for some went right up to him and greeted him cordially, acceptingat once his invitation to dinner. Turning to the discomfitedEnglishman she waved her hand saucily to him. exclaiming,Ta, ta, Duke, ta, ta! and left the apartment with her newescort. May Yohe, now Lord Francis Hopes wife, is the pre-sumptive heir to the title of Duchess of
. card and asked her todine with him after the performance. She accepted the invita-tion but when she came down to the reception room she alsodiscovered there an old friend she had not seen for some went right up to him and greeted him cordially, acceptingat once his invitation to dinner. Turning to the discomfitedEnglishman she waved her hand saucily to him. exclaiming,Ta, ta, Duke, ta, ta! and left the apartment with her newescort. May Yohe, now Lord Francis Hopes wife, is the pre-sumptive heir to the title of Duchess of Newcastle. It is by nomeans certain that Lady May will be here this year, but an at-tempt to secure her has been making for some time, and theengagement is sure to come to pass yet, as the one-time favoriteis not rich, if she is titled, and a good, financially successful tourwould be very welcome to her exchequer. It is seven years agothis month—September, 1888—that May Yohe made her first suc-cess in Boston, and from that time her career was a venture-. LORD AXD LADY FRANCIS HOPE. some one. At that time she was about 17, and was the primeattraction in a spectacular production of Cinderella, hailingfrom Chicago. When that show left Boston, May Yohe stayedbehind, and was for some time a resident of Columbus Ave.,where her lithe young figure, with its bouyant carriage, and hersaucy face, with its big, dark eyes and ruby lips, became verywell known. She went abroad about three years ago and madean almost instantaneous hit, and has been popular ever her hits are Martina in The Magic Opal, at the LyricTheatre. London, Jan. 19, 1893; Nitouche in the comic opera ofthe name, May 6, 1893; the title role of The Lady Slavey, , at the Avenue Theatre; and in Dandy Dick Whittington,at the same theatre, in March of this year. Every one knows 504 BATCHELLER GENEALOGY. Miss Yohes vocal peculiarities. She has a voice of limited range,a deep, musical, but peculiar contral
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