Mr. N. C. Goodwin & Miss Maxine Elliott Souvenir. Season 1899-1900 [Edition De Luxe]

Washington, D. C. : R. G. Craerin, 1899. Soft cover. Very Good. First edition; large 4to 9 1/2" x 12 1/2"; unpaginated (pp. 14); original printed wraps, hand-sewn to pages with a thick thread; small closed horizontal cut to fore-edge of front cover; few slight crease lines to corners, else very good or better. Illustrated with drawings by celebrated photographer Marc Gambier and others. A stunning compilation of portraits of actors (and spouses) Maxine Elliott and Nathaniel Carl Goodwin from different plays they starred in together. In the early 1900s Ms. Elliott was the only woman in the US owning a theater, "The Maxine Elliott" off Broadway in New York. She toured extensively in Europe and the US, eventually signing on with Goldwyn Pictures and spending considerable time in California. She is rumored to have had an affair with Charlie Chaplin, after being seen numerous times at his "Charlie Chaplin Studios." Her husband Nathaniel Goodwin, whom she divorced in 1908, was mostly known for his performances as a vaudevillian.