Caroline Miskel Hoyt (born Caroline Miskel Scales, â€") was an
American stage actress who became the second wife of playwright
Charles H. Hoyt.Caroline Miskel Scales, who later adopted the
professional name Caroline Miskel, was born September , , in
Covington, Kentucky. Her parents, Christopher Columbus and Mary
Menzies Scales, moved to Toronto in . There she became a student of
the Canadian elocutionist Jessie Alexander. Over the years, Caroline's
father was a merchant, Kentucky state legislator, magazine editor, and
inventor.Miskel moved to New York City at the age of and soon made
her professional stage début touring with Augustin Daly's famed
repertory company that by season's end saw her playing Phoebe, the
shepherdess in Shakespeare's As You Like It. She later portrayed
Marguerite in Charles Osborne's The Face in the Moonlight opposite
Robert B. Mantell. The following season she portrayed Ruth Hardman in
Charles H. Hoyt's A Temperance Town, a satiric comedy that opened on
September , , at Hoyt's Madison Square Theatre and ran for
performances.Though by then Miskel was known as a promising young
actress with a flair for comedy, she chose to retire from the stage
not long after she married Charles Hoyt on March , . She returned to
the theatre in to star in Hoyt's new play A Contented Woman, the
Broadway premiere of which was anticipated for the next season after a
brief shakedown tour of several northeastern cities.
American stage actress who became the second wife of playwright
Charles H. Hoyt.Caroline Miskel Scales, who later adopted the
professional name Caroline Miskel, was born September , , in
Covington, Kentucky. Her parents, Christopher Columbus and Mary
Menzies Scales, moved to Toronto in . There she became a student of
the Canadian elocutionist Jessie Alexander. Over the years, Caroline's
father was a merchant, Kentucky state legislator, magazine editor, and
inventor.Miskel moved to New York City at the age of and soon made
her professional stage début touring with Augustin Daly's famed
repertory company that by season's end saw her playing Phoebe, the
shepherdess in Shakespeare's As You Like It. She later portrayed
Marguerite in Charles Osborne's The Face in the Moonlight opposite
Robert B. Mantell. The following season she portrayed Ruth Hardman in
Charles H. Hoyt's A Temperance Town, a satiric comedy that opened on
September , , at Hoyt's Madison Square Theatre and ran for
performances.Though by then Miskel was known as a promising young
actress with a flair for comedy, she chose to retire from the stage
not long after she married Charles Hoyt on March , . She returned to
the theatre in to star in Hoyt's new play A Contented Woman, the
Broadway premiere of which was anticipated for the next season after a
brief shakedown tour of several northeastern cities.
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