Maxine Elliot, Actress

Miss Maxine Elliot (Mrs. Nathaniel C. Goodwin) was born in Rockland, Me., February 5, 1873, and spent much of her childhood on a large sailing ship, of which her father, Thomas Dermot, of Oakland, Cal., was captain. Subsequently she spent about a year at the convent of Notre Dame, Roxbury, Mass., and went to New York when she was barely sixteen years old to begin the struggle of "carving out a career ." She made her first appearance on any stage in the part of Felicla Umphraville in "The Middleman" the season of 1890-1 in New York with E. S. Willard under the management of A. M. Palmer. She also played Virginia Fleetwood in "John Needham's Double," Beatrice Selwyn in "A Fool's Paradise," and Lady Gilding in "The Professor's Love Story." After that she joined "The Prodigal Daughter" company at the American Theatre, New York, and remained there to play the second part in "The Voyage of Suzette," which ran only two or three weeks. She then joined Rose Coghlan's company and played Dora In "Diplomacy," Grace Harkaway In "London Assurance," Alice . "Forget-Me-Not," and Mrs. Allenby in "A Woman of Varney in No Importance." Augustin Daly then engaged her, and at his theatre she appeared in the title role of " A Heart of Ruby ," in "The Orient Express," in " A Bundle of Lies," and in " A Tragedy Rehearsal." She also played Silvia in "Two Gentlemen of Verona," Hermia in " A Midsummer Night's Dream," and Olivia In "Twelfth Night." In 1895 she went to London with this company, where her beauty attracted great attention. After a sum mer engagement with the Daniel Frawley Stock Company in San Francisco she joined Nat Goodwin's company in 1896, becoming his leading woman. In that year she obtained a divorce from her first husband, Geo. A. McDermott, a lawyer and mayor's marshal under Mayor Grace of New York. She was married to Mr. Goodwin February 20, 1898. With him she appeared as Portia in "The Merchant of Venice," Hermia in " A Midsummer Night's Dream," in " An American Citizen," "The Cowboy and the Lady," "When We Were Twenty-one" and many of the other plays in his large repertoire. The season of 1903-4 she was starred by Charles B. Dillingham in Clyde Fitch's play, "Her Own Way," and in 1905-6 in another Fitch play, "Her Great Match." The season of 1907-8 Miss Elliott starred in London and in this country in "Under the Greenwood Tree."

Miss Elliott spent most of her leisure time at her town house in London.