The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-06-19
TEMPLETON'S LOVE
STORY.
Entranced With a Negro Minstrel
at First Sight, She Marries Him
Despite Of Her Parents.

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essee and married Fay Templeton,
was noted in the News. There was
q a dash of romance about the love af:
fair of the merry minstrel and the
piquant boufer, and the gossips of
the profession have had a great deal
to say about it during the past year.
Miss Templeton has been on the
stage since she was FIVE or six years
Old, and became an enormous favorite
! in the south. She was q beautiful
and precious child. An old fashioned
photograph, which hangs in the green
room of the theater at Little Rock.
Ark, shows her to have been slender
and delicate, with great, earnest
black eyes, exquisite features and a
head crowned with rougish little
curls. Her father, John Templeton.
a typical southerner with long, black
hair, and sallOw features, and her
mother, Alice Vane, a sparkling
soubrette, who now at forty, is as
plump and winsome as the daughter,
were for time the only support of
the infant phenomenon. When affairs
became very prosperous, Ellis Ryse,
the big basso, and a contralto singer
was secured. But Gay" was the
grand attraction, and sang and danced
in little farces and operates, and
many were her triumphal tours
through the southern circuit and even
away down into the West Indies. The
child prodigy developed into charm
ing young woman. The thin limbs
grew round and symmetrical, the big
eyes blacker and saucier, and the crisp
little curls became a wealth of raven |
ringlets which, when uncon6ned, as
in the Mascot" tumbled in bewil-
dering protusion about her plump
shoulders, and a trim little waist.
Her voice was rich and mellow con-
iralto, not very well cultivated, but
good enough for the requirements of
light OPP ra. In short, Fay at Is was
a sumner, and when Mr.. Billy West
first saw her head reclining on Pippo's
breast, and heard her softly join in the
Gobb.e, Gobble duet, he was, to use
the comprehensive professional phrase,
"paralyzed-"
When Miss Templeton went to the
minstrel matinee, and Mr.. West, with
his partner. Mr.. Primrose, tripped
lightly forth and began their greeting
song and dance, she knew that her
hour had come. The red velvet coat,
the knee breeches which revealed the
gentle curves of Mr.. Vests shapely {
calves, and the big diamond which
sparkled on the expansive shirt front,
made him simply ravishing in her
eyes. Her infatuation was complete :
when Mr.. West, shaved very smooth, .
dressed very sprucely and with the '
burnt cork carefully washed out of :
his ears obtained an introduction
through a member of her company.
1t was mutual mash. and the elder
Templetens soon took alarm. Their
love for the girl was almost idolatry. >
Nothing was too good for her and no =
was too severe if it could
add to her comfort. Fay had the
choicest room at every hotel, and the Z
parents would 60 higher up where .
cheaper. If there was an all night .
ride Fay had section of the Pullman
and the father and mother sat up in Z
an ordinary coach. They have been .
known to do this time and again to :
cut down expenses. They deprived
themselves all their lives. aud lavished {
everything upon the girl They had
bent all their energies to her profess >
sional advancement and had placed -
her st the head of we'll balanced
comic opera company. She was be- ,
coming a tremendous favorite every ::
where, and her prospects were very 6
bright. 1t was evident that the time =
was close at hand when there should : !,
come a golden reward for the years !
Of anxious waiting and severe priya- !.
ton. The girl was young. beautiful. !.
and would soon be rich. :
There was no limit to the briliancy of 7
The future which they pictured for !.
her.
But it has been the old story over +
again. The prayers of the parents !,
nave been UNDECIDED, the prospects for :.
he future disregarded, and bouncing +
Fay is now the minstrePs bride, and :.
he old folks are disconsolate. Fay !"
,euld have had her pick of the gilded q =
Ind wealthy youths who payed her - :,
homage and overwhelmed her with +
lowers, and many people will think i
Ter unwise to s'throw herself away =,
n negro singer. What the result :
nay be, or what effect the marriage :,
will have on Fay's professional future. =
an not be determined. 1t is interest y !,