The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-03-02
THE SUN, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1917.

But still, conjugal unpleasantnesscs do
often occur among the dramatic profession;
and, being public characters, their home
gricfsarc apt soon tobccomc public property.
They do not seem very much to regret this,
for as they are accustomed to depict before
whatsoever chooses tObuy ticket tothe per-
formancc, the sorrows Of stage heroes and
hcrOincs. so they are, perhaps, not unwilling
to admit tho public to a view Of their own
private woes.
II we go as far back ms SHAKESPEARE him
self, we find that the immortal dramatlst,
who was also n player, was not n happy
husband, though whether the fault was his
or that of ANNE HATHAWAY, his wife, we
cannot say. As she was eight years his
senior however, it was probable from the
start that they would have trouble, especial
ly as SHAKESPEARE must have been man
much cngrosscd in his own thoughts, and per-
haps he made himself nuisance about the
house TO n wife who didn't care n rap for his
poetry or pay any respect to his musings
But we needn't go back to SHAKESPEARE
to find ill-starrcd unions Of the people of the
stage There are plenty Of them in our own
immediate time. FANNY kEMBLE, though
50 charming on the stage, failed to charm
PIERCE BUTLER OF il, or else he to charm
her, for after Il bittcr married life they wiSc-
ly concluded to separate. and fourteen years
from the wedding were divorced. ANNA
Cora MOwATT, once noted on the stage.
found no happiness in her married life, and
when released from the burden Of Mr.. Now
ATT, she married Mr. RlrCnlE; but hc too
failed to satisfy the warnings of her dra-
matte heart, and they lived apart, She in
Europe and he in America. FoRI,r'r and his
wife fought for years in the courts, and
though Mrs. FoRBEsT -ucccNi"d in the end,
Mr.. CHARLES O'CoNoR and Abe had trouble
about the money obtained from tho stubborn
actor, and the rccountng of that fact in the
newspapers has cmbittcrcd the aged law
ycr's declining years. The pretty Miss
NELSON. too. the lovely .Jplifi and Rosdiind
of the stage finds Mr.. LEE. her husband,
unworthy of the prize he gained in marry
ing her.
But the matrimonial troubles which now
interest us most are those of ApELINA PATTI
and her husband, tl.' gay and pcrhrps di~-
solutc Marquis De CNrN. Their" WIS talk II
her surrcndcring her tuucful heart alurly
tenor named NIcoLfN1. but she denies it like
an honest woman; and besides, it does not
seem likely, for he is not the sort of man to
take captive lovely woman's affections
Tho true story is that, after enduring all
she thought she ought TO endure from her
husband, PATTI at st. Petersburg shipped
him at short notice, and got the dcspotic
Car TO turn him out Of Russia, while she
tclcgraphcd to Paris TO begin proceedings
q
cstrangcmcnt and PATTI alleges them to loo
gross i'll treatment, it is induhitahlo that
the operate queen and her spouse have
left each other; and perhaps it i just a. well
that ii is SO. She il great singer and
it may be wlsc4t for her to devote her
whole attention TO the hoauticll art i'm which
she delights all hearers and from which she
makes Il great deal OF money. so that she
has no need Of a husband to support her. In
fact, she has supported De CAUX in luxurious
idlcnc-s, and that is Il very mean position
for "a man 10 occupy.
We all know Of the COMPOSITIONS matri-
monial experiences II LUccA. another Of our
ppIular singers She seems - be- sruuky
little woman, who naturally cNact- u
great deal Of attention and devotion
from a husband, and when she doesn't get
1t or thinks she j. -hlbhiiy treated by him.
she will not stand the neglect. We
fancy That tnc main cause OF the truu-
bic in these various cases IS this: the wives
support the husbands by their work, and
that fact bcgets in the ladies a sort of con-
tempt for their spouscs, and makes them
rather cNactlng and dictptnrial.
Bu, after all, Those matrimonial misfor-
tunes mako really little difference ia tho
public, 50 long as they do not mar the voices
II PATTI and LUccN, and so far they do not
soon to have had any injurious effect on
them.