Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . bright, admiring eyes—all sensational fish, bigand little, came to Mrs. Le Verts net and made a socialjamhalaya not possible to match in all Dixie. There, too,were musical and dramatic people galore, for the fair hostesswas patron of art, no less than leader of the mode. JohnT. Raymond was then at the Mobile Theatre, a tyro playerwho did not dream Theres milHons in it! Burly, big-voiced Theodore Hamilton,who sometimes did actorstunts at the soirees whichperhaps helped him to somereputation thereafter. Therewas an old auctioneer inMobile who had several pr
Belles, beaux and brains of the 60's . bright, admiring eyes—all sensational fish, bigand little, came to Mrs. Le Verts net and made a socialjamhalaya not possible to match in all Dixie. There, too,were musical and dramatic people galore, for the fair hostesswas patron of art, no less than leader of the mode. JohnT. Raymond was then at the Mobile Theatre, a tyro playerwho did not dream Theres milHons in it! Burly, big-voiced Theodore Hamilton,who sometimes did actorstunts at the soirees whichperhaps helped him to somereputation thereafter. Therewas an old auctioneer inMobile who had several pret-ty daughters. One of thesePhillips girls married Ham-ilton and went on the stageuntil invahded. A secondwas a royal beauty. AsMarie Gordon she becameRaymonds first wife. Shewon repute for good acting,especially as blind Berthato her husband, Jefferson,and John Owens, as CalebPlummer. But it was not altogether by her acting thatshe dazzled all of one continent and parts of another. Johnny Chatterton—later Signor Perugini and one. MES. WILLIAM BECKER(MRS. LAURA FORSYTH) 186 BELLES, BEAUX AND BRAINS OF THE SIXTIES of the numerous husbands of LilHan Russell—was a pupilof Madame Kowalewski-Portz, and sang at her Christ churchchoir and at Mrs. Le Verts. The women met at Mrs. Le Verts are tempting, but dan-gerous themes to touch. There were the dashing Oliversisters, known to every camp; the beautiful bride, Forsyth, already famed in the A. N. V. She is nowMrs. William Becker, of Milwaukee, and the last directdescendant of Jacksons secretary of state and grandsonof the great editor is her son, Charles Forsyth. He alsolives there. Fascinating Mrs. Dan E. Huger was another of Mrs. LeVerts war brides. As Miss Hattie Withers she had wontriumphs in a Washington winter. She left two charmingdaughters, Mrs. Cleland Smith, of Memphis, and Mrs. RobertWllkie, of New Orleans. Their daughters, in turn, won-dered to the day of her recent and lamented death, whetherthat young and
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