The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-12-11

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From the Kansas City Times.
BY the decree of fate, or, ~ some arc
pleased TO call it, the will Of Providence,
some atoms Of the moving masses upon the
esrths surface are compelled to play parts
IN the drama OF life more interesting than
other atoms or individuals. Neither man
or woman, mighty a. they are At times,
can select the part they must play in the
short era Of life. They may select or
choose just what they desire to do or the
part IN the everyday play they may desire
to I'LL, but the great stage manager Of all
casts the parts and assigns to each his OF
her place in the drama Of Lie. This in.
PRODUCES to the reader
! THE HEROINE
OF this little sketch. The details are
founded on facts, and the principal actors
are we'll know to the settled residents of this
city. Some three or four years ago. when
the old Walnut Street Theatre was in full
blast and each night welcomed new star
and added to the attractions Of the theatre,
there came from the east charming, Wild.
laughing female vocalist with q banjo.
Ella Warner. wss the favorite, and night
after night the Walnut Street Theatre
shook and trembled With the applause
awarded the young and v,vacious blonde
from Cincinnati But there came about
AN UGLY MEETING.
II was one which might have spoiled play
in ordinary life. but with two we'll trained
actors the surprise was profound secret
until the curtain fell. Ella warner and
her husband, George Frame, were cast for
scene in which new man from St. Louis
was to take part. The new man had
failed to reach the city in time for rehearsal
and made his 6rst appearance on the stage
after the curtain vent up. When Ella
Warner responded to her "cue" and came
upon the stage she met her first husband,
Geo. Gulick, from whom she had been d.
vorced. The sursprise Was mutual, but
neither pretended to recognize the other.
They had been lovers in bright suburban
town in Southern Ohio, and two little chill
dren attested the felicity Of their married
life. Manager Williams, Who then had the
Walnut Street Theatre under his control,
found it impossible to keep the divorced
husband and wife, and In due time Georxs
Frame and hi. wife, Ella Warner. went to
Joplin, and from thence drifted to Cincin.
natl, where they arrived, broken in spirits
and fortune.
A WIFE AND TWO aUSDANDe.
When Mr.. and Nra Frame arrived in
Cincinnati after their western tour. they
we're in pecuniasy distress. They had let.
sers to veil known Variety Theatre there,
and soon after their arrival they made sp-
plication for positions. When they were
introduced to the stage manager, they were
TO End in him the discarded and
husband, Quick, whom they had
net at Kansas City. The stage manager
listened grimly and exultantly to their
tory Of distress, and responded BY offering
Ella Warner, bin former wife, . position on
The stage but for her second husband,
Frame, he had nothing. Il vas hard. bot
The husband and wife accepted the proposi-
lion. Ella became . "star" under the
auspices Of her 6st husband and sirlhood1
love, while her second husband Wa .
loafer, half starving on the streets.
AeLEAM or ROMANCE.
While our old Kansas City favorite Wa
winning favors and fame as banjoiss and
'ongstrese, her second husband Vas being
With jealousy and despair. Ella
Warner, thrown constantly into the COM
pany of her FIRST husband and her children,
seemed to forget her later love, Who wasout
of work and wanderer on the streets. shs
made her home with rich aunt Of her ct
husband, in Cincinnati, and became oaOof
he family. Then Frame, the second hus-
band, left in tit of Jealousy and despair,
and Ella applied for divorce for the pur-
pose'of marrying the first husband. But
loud sh0t athWart this sunny sky. Just
when Ella had secured her divorce from
Frame her first husband became infatuated
~ . new face and married another Just
when his FIRST wife vas ready to marry him.
Then her fond hopes were blighted; her
bright picture Of domestic happiness oblit-
.rated barrier was thrown up between
her and her children, and she again
launched forth into the world.
MARRIED CLOWN.
In her travels this favorits Of the foot.
lights met and vas courted By Ssickney the
amous circus clown. They wers married.
md retired to rural life in Kansas. There
his heroine Of the footliGhts gathered about
YER the children Of Gulick, Frame and
,tickney, all hers, and all well cared for
md equally beloved By her. She VS. in
his city few days ago with her husband,
Mr. Stickney. both Of them retired from the
tage. and each happy in mutual love.
The ups and downs OF . variety theatre
.irl are many, bat few have borne them -
sell - the once Kansas City favorise, Ella
Warner, the banioiss.